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Beautification of the city of Syracuse is not a small task. It calls for a big event.

On Saturday, hundreds of students volunteered on the city’s Northside as a part of Syracuse University’s ninth annual The Big Event.

The Big Event is a nationally recognized community service project organized by OrangeSeeds, a first-year student leader-ship and empowerment program at SU. Led by students called “seeds,” The Big Event is a one-day project developed during the course of a year that focuses on a spe-cific type of community service in a chosen Syracuse neighborhood, said Jennifer Reh-kugler, a freshman public relations major and member.

OrangeSeeds members are split into four committees — marketing, community relations, logistics and finance — through which they independently organize The Big Event by selecting the project’s focus and contacting organizations that meet their vision, Rehkugler said. This year, The Big Event’s focus was on beautification within the Northside of Syracuse.

“To us, beautification seemed to be the most effective way to get a big group of people together and use that force to make an impact,” Rehkugler said. “Raising money is one thing, but getting people to do hands-on work is so much more rewarding for everyone involved.”

This year, 300 people registered for The

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As students prepare to leave cam-pus for the summer, construction is ramping up with more renovations to Sadler Hall to begin within weeks.

The renovations to Sadler include construction to bathrooms in the West wing and continuing renovations to the dining hall. Washington Arms will also receive bathroom renovations. The housing office is also looking at future construction projects at Shaw Hall, said Rex Giardine, assistant director for capital projects at Syracuse University.

Construction will be completed at Sadler sometime between commence-ment weekend and early arrival dates in August, Giardine said.

“Failure is not an option,” he said. “We always deliver.”

Last summer, Sadler underwent construction on its bathrooms in the east wings of all eight floors. What were once known as “gang bath-rooms” were reconstructed into seven and a half individual baths, making them more versatile, Giardine said.

The full renovation project, which began last summer, will take two years to complete because students occupy the residence hall during the school year.

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(From leFt) maddy oleszkiewicz and sara gatcomb, freshmen broadcast and digital journalism majors, carry flowers from the Assumption Food pantry to the organization’s garden as a part of the big event, a community service day organized by orangeseeds.

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fliP tHiS dormsadler Hall will undergo more renovations this summer with the goal of completing construction before students come to campus in August. some of the renova-tions include:

• Construction to the bathrooms in the west wing

• An expanded dining hall • New entrance on the north side

for non-sadler residents who want to access the dining hall

• An elevator and staircase from the lobby to the dining hall to better accommodate those with disabilities

Sadler Hall upgrades to continue

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Sound the alarm Firefighters gather outside of Mayor Stephanie Miner’s re-election campaign headquarters on Washington Street on Saturday afternoon to protest the proposed closure of Fire Station No. 7. In her budget proposal, Miner said the city could no longer support the station, which is in need of about $1 million in repairs. Station No. 7 is also the closest fire station to the university area. If the station closes, Fire Chief Paul Linnertz has proposed moving firefighters to nearby Fire Station No. 1 so that safety will not be sacrificed. See dailyorange.com

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By Amy HahnCoNtrIbutINg WrIter

On Sunday, about 600 admitted students had a sleepover in the Carrier Dome.

The event, called “Own the Dome Overnight,” brought together admit-ted students and their parents to get a better feel for Syracuse University before attending a spring reception on Monday. “Own the Dome” includ-ed various team-building activities, a student organization showcase, live performances and an hour with mas-ter hypnotist Thomas Bresadola.

The approximately 1,000 parents who accompanied their children attended separate presentations at Manley Field House to answer ques-tions and build a network at SU, said Maurice Harris, dean of undergradu-ate admissions.

Harris said the main purpose of the overnight was to allow the admit-ted students to really get a feel for the university. Numerous schools allow students to stay overnight with current students, but he said he wanted to create a safe opportunity for many admitted students to come together at one time.

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While playing at a prestigious bas-ketball camp in high school, Tamir Goodman got attention for all of the wrong reasons.

Goodman, an observant Jew, got strange looks for wearing a yar-mulke and tzitzit while he played, but didn’t receive attention from top coaches. Then, on the third day of camp, pouring rain canceled every game except for the indoor game Goodman’s team was playing in.

At the beginning of the game, Goodman grabbed a rebound, took one dribble and made a pass behind his back to a teammate across the court. His teammate dunked the ball and the crowd erupted.

“I think that was the first time people stopped looking at me as a total stranger and said ‘You know what, maybe he can be a basketball player,’” Goodman said.

Goodman, known as the Jewish Jordan, spoke to a handful of stu-dents at the Schine Student Center at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday about his basketball career and how it related to his Jewish faith.

Soon after the camp, Goodman committed to the University of Mary-land as a junior on a full athletic scholarship. But he had one condition — he wouldn’t play during Sabbath, a time of rest and worship from sun-down on Friday to sundown on Satur-day for those of the Jewish faith.

Maryland promised it could

accommodate this, and Goodman was soon flooded with more than 700 media requests. A picture of him with a Jewish prayer book was even featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated with the headline, “The Jewish Jordan.”

But then, Maryland coaches told Goodman he would have to play during the Sabbath if he still wanted to play there. Goodman turned down the schol-arship offer. Maryland went on to win

the national championship that year. He was eventually recruited by

Towson University, which promised to alter its whole schedule for him. But Goodman still had to make sacrifices during his first season, including missing most of his team’s tournament run.

After his first year at Towson, his head coach was fired and replaced by a coach who did not respect

By Jen BundyStAFF WrIter

When students eat at Ernie Davis Dining Center on Monday, they’ll be participating in Earth Day without even realizing it.

For the past three years, Syra-cuse University has participated in a composting program in each of its dining halls. But it’s most noticeable at Ernie Davis Dining Center, where specific bins for different forms of waste occupy the space once used for a line of generic trash bins.

There are separate bins for news-paper, food, and napkins and plastic waste, according to the signage hang-ing at the Ernie Davis Dining Center disposal area. New signs for these bins were also recently added.

“We have been composting for years,” said Mark Tewksbury, assis-tant director of SU Food Services.

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was a strategic move by the housing office to update the living facility, Giardine said. Bathrooms are the most frequently used feature in a residence hall and tend to wear out the fastest, he said.

“In the residence hall, the bathroom is always where the most acute need is,” he said.

Several Sadler residents said they appreciate the new bathrooms installed last year.

“I think that (the individual bathrooms) are nice, for the most part. I live on the side with single bathrooms, so let’s just say that’s 10 times better than communal,” said Samuel Bailey, a freshman electrical engineering major.

Brandon Bacon, an undecided freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, said he liked the single bathrooms because they vary in size.

Renovations to bathrooms and bedrooms have been made to Lawrinson, Shaw, Brewster, Boland and Brockway halls during the past six years, Giardine said. Working on the bathrooms is said to be the most cost effective way to update a residence hall, rather than doing construction on the whole building, he said.

The bathrooms in Washington Arms will also be renovated this year, he said. DellPlain and Watson halls are also expected to have renovations to their bathrooms in the future, depending on whether they are deemed neces-sary, he said.

Sadler Dining Center is currently under construction and will expand north by approxi-mately 100 feet, Giardine said. A new entrance is being made on the north side of the building for non-residents who want to access the dining hall. This will prevent people from coming through the residence hall to eat in the dining hall, which is similar to the situation in Shaw, he said.

An elevator will be installed in Sadler that

will take students from the lobby to the din-ing hall. An additional staircase will also be created for students to get to the dining hall, Giardine said. The location of the washroom in the dining hall will also be moved closer to the new exit, he said.

The changes being made to the dining hall will give it a “fresh look,” Giardine said.

New furniture is expected in Sadler in the future, as well, dependent on need, he said. The closet doors, dressers and desks currently in Sadler came with the building and need to be refurbished or completely replaced, he said.

Next summer, construction on Shaw will con-tinue with the addition of new bedrooms to its upper floors. Singles and doubles will be placed where classrooms once existed. The main entry to the residence hall will also be moved to Euclid Avenue and the current main entrance will be used as a fire exit, Giardine said.

People eating in Shaw Dining Center will no longer have to go through the residence hall to do so, giving residents more privacy in their living quarters, he said. Construction on an additional elevator this summer in Shaw will also begin. Construction is slated to finish next summer.

Said Giardine: “Housing has been working hard to improve the student experience.”

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Dorm, sweet Dormsadler hall, which was built in 1960, houses approximately 470 students and 15 resi-dent advisers on eight floors, and includes singles, open-doubles and split-doubles. Lounges with microwaves and televisions divide each floor into an east and west wing. in addition to student rooms, sadler also contains laundry facilities, a dining hall, a late-night snack bar and a main lounge with billiard and table tennis equipment.

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S tephanie Kranz was approxi-mately 312 miles away from Boston when the bombs went

off at the finish line of the city’s annual marathon. She doesn’t know any victims. She doesn’t know what it is like to witness terrorism first-hand. But what this 2012-13 Remem-brance Scholar does know is the importance of looking ahead — and the passion of a runner.

During the evening of April 15, hours after the attack and as Bostonians continued to clean their beloved streets from an unfathom-able act of terror, Kranz went for a training run here in Syracuse.

Kranz is determined to complete a marathon herself in Buffalo, N.Y., this May. As she ran down the streets surrounding Syracuse University with her dog by her side, she could not stop thinking about how fortunate she was to be simply running, and doing so without fear for her safety.

It was then Kranz knew she and her

fellow Remembrance Scholars had to act. Following her run, Kranz posted

her idea for action on the scholars’ Facebook page: a 5K race in Syracuse to benefit the victims of the Boston Marathon attack. By the next eve-ning, the scholars and several other SU students had a plan.

There is a deep significance in the Remembrance Scholars creating a footrace to combat yet another aspect of life that was forced from enjoyable normalcy.

The 35 scholars represent the 35 SU students who lost their lives in the bombing of Pan Am Flight103, Kranz said, and advocate for anti-violence and anti-terrorism, especially during Remembrance Week in the fall. “But our message doesn’t need to end at the end of Remembrance Week,” she said.

In the fall, group members devel-oped the theme, “Look back. Act forward,” Kranz said. Remembering victims of attacks is about being

active in their honor today, not just mourning their loss, she said, and confirmed the group is continuing that logic for those in Boston.

Since the idea for the race was conceived, the momentum has yet to waver. Kranz and fellow Remem-brance Scholar Sarah Walton have been leading the development of the “Keeping the P(e)ace” 5K to take place April 28 at noon. Students and members of the Syracuse commu-nity are welcome to participate. The route will be designed throughout SU’s campus and will conclude at the Schine Student Center with live music and free food.

All funds participants raise will go toward New England-area orga-nization Technology Underwriting Greater Good’s existing fundraiser. The money will be divided between different relief efforts in the Boston area, including The One Fund — cre-ated by top Massachusetts officials — Boston Children’s Hospital and the Boston Red Cross.

Kranz’s excitement could not be contained as she described how every aspect of the race has been donated: from the T-shirts paid for by the chancellor’s office to the water stations provided by SU Department of Recreation Services.

In less than a week, a group of SU students with the support of the uni-versity has created an event that will do more than collect needed resourc-es for a city struck with terror and loss. It will create hope, a hope that, in the face of human evil, individuals can counter extreme malevolence by exemplifying an overwhelming sense of pure compassion. And a hope that a

race can again be run with joy. Though the Remembrance

Scholars are spearheading the event, several other passionate SU students with close ties to Boston are also heav-ily involved, which has only made the event more special, Kranz said.

For Kranz, seeing her idea become a reality due to the support of her peers and university has been overwhelming. “I have probably had a smile on my face since Monday nonstop,” Kranz said.

Even though we are miles away from the most recent city to be struck with loss, as SU students, we now have the ability to lace up our sneak-ers, pin a number to our shirts and stride across a finish line for a cause.

Said Kranz: “It just goes to show the power that’s at Syracuse.”

Rachael Barillari is the editorial editor and a junior political science and Middle Eastern studies major.

Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at rebarill@syr.edu and

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Before the Syracuse University administration attempts to increase enrollment or renovate the facilities in the Renee Crown University Hon-ors Program, being an honors student must carry greater value.

The honors program was revamped in 2004-05, but it still needs restructur-ing and must refocus on exclusivity instead of expansion.

Though 900 students are enrolled in the honors program, the percentage of students who graduate from it is low compared to other universities. On average, 42 percent of students enrolled in the program graduate from it.

This large dropout rate is an issue that could possibly be remedied by reorganizing individual capstone development and focusing on a smaller number of students.

For freshman and sophomore honors students, the perks of the program mainly lie in the early class enrollment dates and honors-only

courses that are both creative and challenging. But the last two years of honors students’ undergraduate careers is fraught with completing an overwhelming capstone project.

To alleviate this imbalance, the program should be restructured to include elements of capstone work dur-ing all four undergraduate years.

This will allow completing the capstone to be a more feasible goal for students partaking in the program, and will therefore possibly decrease the rate of incompletion.

Making the program more presti-gious and supplying greater benefits could also decrease the dropout rate.

By scaling back on the number of students enrolled in the honors pro-gram, university officials could real-

locate where its resources are used. Resources could be directed toward truly devoted students who can work on capstones that continue to push and challenge them for all four years.

Beyond this, university officials must concentrate on increasing the prestige of graduating with honors. Stu-dents must see the honors program as a greater asset. By working to develop benefits and worth for years of difficult academics, the program’s retention numbers and significance of holding an honors degree might increase.

In revamping the academics and exclusivity of the program, the univer-sity might also be able to attract more top prospective students to SU.

Though the cramped physical spaces students in the honors program use need to be improved in the future, the program itself must first become more elite. Once this is achieved, the university can set its sights on honors expansion.

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“They can really sample the university in a way that you couldn’t do in the typical visitation of a few hours,” Harris said.

Originally, the event was named “One World Overnight” because it incorporated ideas pre-sented in the One World Concert that was held at SU last fall, Harris said. He explained that the event reflected the Dalai Lama’s message because it brought diverse groups of students together. The students who attended the over-night event represented various ethnicities and places of origin, from East Coast to West Coast.

Nicole Gramlich, a freshman in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, attended the “Common Ground for Peace” pan-els last fall and said she thinks the overnight is a good idea for admitted students.

“It would have been awesome to connect with people and make friends before moving in,” Gramlich said, adding that she would have attended the overnight as well if she had had the opportunity.

The Dome was divided into sections to help the event run smoothly, Harris said. One end of the Dome was sectioned off as a sleeping area while the other was left open for performances and activities. Team-building activities and performances began at 8 p.m., and afterward,

students watched a film on one of the screens in the Dome, according to the event’s website. The schedule of events ends at 1 a.m, according to the website. The spring reception starts Monday at 9 a.m.

Harris said he hopes students enjoyed the night of activities, performances and bonding experiences with other students “in an environ-ment unique among environments.”

He also said he believes the event will help students feel more comfortable with their deci-sion to attend SU.

Said Harris: “Things that produce comfort: I’ve got friends here and I’m eager to come back here because I can see myself fitting in.”

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“The new signage gets students to do it rather than us doing it behind the scenes.”

SU Food Services first began composting in 2010 when a few dining centers started the program for a trial period. The program was expanded to all on-campus dining centers after a few weeks of success.

SU Food Services has a partnership with the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency to compost tons of food waste to improve sus-tainability on campus, Tewksbury said.

The process of composting begins when stu-dents dispose of their waste into the separate bins in the dining hall, according to SU Food Services’ website.

The bins are then loaded onto an SU Food Ser-vices truck to be brought to the Physical Plant yard on South Campus and are put into a main dumpster, Tewksbury said. From there, the food waste is taken weekly to the Amboy Compost

Site in Camillus, where OCRRA transforms the garbage into compost, according to the website.

Community members can go to the site to pick up compost to use for gardening or other needs, according to OCRRA website.

Though Ernie Davis Dining Center is the only dining hall that recently got new signage, all of the dining halls and many campus cafes participate in composting, Tewksbury said.

The benefits of the new signage are hard to determine because the bins are generally filled with the same amount of waste per day,

Tewksbury said. “Composting is already occurring all across

campus,” he said. “The whole university really cares about sustainability.”

Students also agree that the signage and composting are important aspects of SU’s focus on sustainability.

A benefit of making the students more aware of their waste is that they will make separating food waste the norm, said Erin Miller, a fresh-man advertising major.

“It is important to get students more involved in sustainability,” Miller said. “It sets a rhythm, which I think most students follow now.”

People now understand the procedure and will call someone out for not following the protocol, she said.

“Most students I see dispose of their trash according to the signs now,” said Daisy Gan, an undeclared freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. “I think getting the students to be a part of the process is a good thing.”

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“Composting is already occurring all across campus. The whole university really cares about sustainability.”

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spencer bodian | staff photographerCharlie hall, an environmental and forest biology professor, sits in his office. Hall, who has been at SUNY-ESF for more than 20 years, will retire at the end of the semester with his wife and fellow professor, Myrna. The couple plans to move to Montana.

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Although Charlie Hall will retire at the end of this semester, students and faculty agree that his influence at SUNY-ESF and the

scientific community is far from finished. Hall, who will retire with his wife and

fellow professor at the end of the semester, has worked as a professor in the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology at the State University of New York College of Environmen-tal Science and Forestry for more than 20 years.

“This is a place I really love,” Hall said. “The students here want to learn what I want to teach.”

Both professors have shown their dedica-tion to helping students in any way they can throughout their time at the ESF, said Rigoberto Melgar, a senior environmental policy major.

Melgar said Hall gave him opportunities he had never imagined, especially since Melgar was the first member of his family to attend a four-year college. Specifically, Hall assisted him in writing a book that is now published.

“I consider Charlie my friend, my mentor and my scientific father,” Melgar said. “He’s been there and he’s believed in me, which is what I respect the most.”

Hall’s interests in systems ecology and bio-physical economics are the result of encourage-ment from his idol, the famous systems ecologist Howard Thomas Odum. In particular, Hall has studied the economic efficiency of extracting oil. His work was recently published in Scien-tific American in April, he said.

The current perception of economics as a social science is too focused on the way people spend money instead of the energy and resourc-es that are associated with this money, he said.

“The idea is this: Can we integrate econom-

ics with the natural sciences?” Hall said. Based on this, Hall has also developed a

systems ecology program at ESF consisting of five courses ranging from a freshman to doctor-ate level. He has also created the biophysical and ecological engineering economics under-graduate minor, effective next fall, which will focus specifically on biophysical economics.

Alexandre Poisson, a teacher’s aide in Hall’s systems ecology class, said he is very good at keeping the class lively.

“It’s fun because he has a lot of presence,” Poisson said. “We never have to worry about the students losing focus.”

Hall will continue to help Poisson with his research on the efficiency of nuclear reactors after his retirement, which shows he cares about his students outside of the classroom as well, Poisson said.

He also strives to make his students apply their classwork to the real world by encourag-ing them to publish their work or present at biophysical economics conferences, such as one this June in Vermont, Poisson said.

His wife, Myrna Hall, first started working

at ESF in 1993 after creating an influential simulation model of the melting glaciers at Glacier National Park in Montana. This model has been used in multiple publications about climate change, including National Geographic, she said.

Since she started teaching at ESF, the most rewarding experience has been working with the students.

“They are very curious and concerned about the Earth,” Myrna Hall said, adding that stu-dents have a very high standard of ethics.

After retirement, the Halls will live in Montana. She said hopes to continue doing research on the melting glaciers in Glacier National Park.

Adrian Wiegman, a senior environmental studies major, said both professors will be missed for their collective wit and their ability to motivate their students.

“They both force you to think critically and never take the simply satisfied solution,” he said. “This way they got about solving problems creates individuals who are willing to push the envelope.”

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Big Event, and close to 250 attended, Rehkugler said. Registration for The Big Event closed early due to a high number of registered volunteers.

On Saturday, participants were assigned to one of 11 locations, including Assumption Food Pantry, Northside CYO and LeMoyne Elemen-tary School, according to the event itinerary. Volunteers traveled to each assigned location by

color-coded bus, and were accompanied by two designated members of OrangeSeeds.

At Assumption Food Pantry, volunteers worked to clear debris and weeds from the site to create a community garden, said Simon Pear-son, director of the Assumption Food Pantry. After cleaning away debris, Pearson said the volunteers planted bulbs and vegetable seeds.

But it was not always a well-kept community space, Pearson said.

“The area used to be used as a garbage dump, where people would deposit syringes and other

terrible things,” Pearson said. “We don’t want kids playing near debris. We’d rather have them play in a garden.”

Brother Nicholas Spano, director of the Assumption Food Pantry, said areas like the community garden, which used to have 4-feet-tall weeds, aren’t uncommon in Syracuse. Com-munity gardens are a great example of The Big Event’s goal of beautification because they serve as a way to bring people together to beau-tify not only their neighborhood, but also their lives, he said.

The perception of community service has turned into glamorous mission trips to places like Nicaragua and Jamaica, Spano said. He said many students don’t realize the city in which they attend school is in need of major volunteering and rebuilding.

“It’s important for SU students to get involved because the university is probably one of the biggest things left in Syracuse,” Spano said. “I think that OrangeSeeds has a lot of potential because once you plant that seed in someone early on, they know the needs of the city before it’s too late.”

Early in the fall semester, OrangeSeeds mem-bers took a bus tour around downtown Syracuse as a way to familiarize themselves with the city, said Aysha Seedat, director of OrangeSeeds’ community relations. From there, she said the group chose to focus on the Northside commu-nity of Syracuse.

Seedat, a freshman policy studies major, said the committees decided to make beautification their goal because it was the easiest way for a large group of people to have a substantial effect in a short amount of time. She said beau-tification not only cleans up a community, but also leads to long-term improvements, such as increasing property values.

“When we were cleaning up, a lot of the things I was finding on the ground were things I would not like to see as a child,” Seedat said. “A cleaner community defi-nitely contributes to a child’s upbringing, so what we’re doing is important on a lot of different fronts.”

Many of the volunteers who picked up trash at the Northside CYO site were helped by mem-bers of the community, who gave them addi-tional trash bags and signs of encouragement, Seedat said. She said the positive atmosphere emitted by the volunteers was visibly infectious across the community.

Though organizers said The Big Event was a success, it didn’t come without stressful moments, Seedat said. At the beginning of the second semester, the executive board — made up of OrangeSeeds alumni — placed the respon-sibility of The Big Event entirely in the hands of the freshman members, she said.

In the end, she said the only problem was having a larger turnout than expected.

“The committees had to redistribute vol-unteers into new groups at the last minute due to the sheer number of those involved,” Seedat said. “It was great that everyone wanted to get involved. I’m really happy with the turnout.”

Thomas Wolfe, dean and senior vice presi-dent of student affairs, attended the first por-tion of the event when volunteers organized in the Life Sciences Complex. Wolfe praised the efforts of OrangeSeeds and its involvement in The Big Event.

“What we’re saying with this movement is that our life doesn’t begin and end within Syra-cuse University,” Wolfe said. “This is a big event in more ways than just its name.”

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Goodman’s beliefs and scheduled games during Sabbath. The situation reached a boiling point when the coach threw a chair at Goodman in the locker room.

Unable to stay at Towson, he signed a contract to play professional basketball in Israel. Early in the season, Goodman was traded from the best team in the league to one of the worst. But it was there Goodman met his wife, who had also turned down college scholarships to observe the Sabbath.

“I think sometimes, if we work with what we have instead of thinking of what we don’t have, ultimately, we can find our biggest blessings that way,” he said.

After spending a year in the Israeli army, he tried to play professional basketball in Israel again, but struggled with a knee injury. He even-

tually found his way back to the United States, where he played a season under former Syracuse basketball player Lawrence Moten in the Pre-mier Basketball League. He retired a year later at the age of 27 after badly injuring his hand.

“You can’t really inspire anybody or help anybody if you’re always tasting success,” he said. “Through my injuries, it made me much more sensitive and much more creative.”

Goodman used this creativity to write a book and make a DVD about positive coaching. He also helped make a sweat-wicking shirt with tzitzits that is used by the Israeli army and given to basketball clinics across the country.

Said Goodman: “I really feel like I’ve been on this amazing journey, thank God, and the most important thing that I learned is that each person is special, each person has their own blessings and the ultimate way is to give back.”

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courtesy of syracuse stage (FROM TOP) CARLY BLANE, a junior musical theater major, performs the lead role in “Violet,” accompanied by a strong cast in the Syracuse University drama department production. Her character’s love interest, Flick, is played by Malcolm Yancey, a senior acting major.

By Kristin RossASST. FEATURE EDITOR

S econds after the lights come up onstage and the

band begins to play, it is evident the musical “Vio-

let” requires standout voices to tackle the show’s

challenging music. Thankfully, the young women in the

cast meet that challenge, helping to tell a storyline that

was almost unconvincing.

Syracuse University Drama’s production, “Violet,” runs

from now until April 28.

“Violet” follows a young Caucasian woman’s journey

LeavingscarsTalented cast of SU Drama’s ‘Violet’ production hindered by underwhelming script

Q&A with student on

‘Ellen’ showBy Chelsea DeBaise

FEATURE EDITOR

Hannah Melton, a sophomore pub-lic relations major, burst onto the viral video scene with a little help from one of the greatest tricks of YouTube sensations: anesthesia. A video of her pretending to be Hannah Montana after having her wisdom teeth removed made it big after being posted online for her IST 400: “Social Media Enterprise” class, also known as #RotoloClass. Upon the success of the video, Melton was asked to appear on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” During the April 18 episode, she spoke about the video and her love of Hannah Montana. The Daily Orange spoke with Melton to find out more about her experience.

The Daily Orange: What’s the fun-niest reaction you’ve gotten to your video?Hannah Melton: I guess not the funniest, but the best thing about it would have to be when people say that it was the best — that it cheered them up on that day. I’ve had people mes-sage me, saying, “I was in a really bad mood that day, and then I saw your video and it completely turned my day around,” and stuff like that.

The D.O.: How was it being a guest on “Ellen”?Melton: Legally, I’m not sure what I’m allowed to say, but I’ll say she’s just as great as you’d expect her to be. I couldn’t ask for a better show to be on.

The D.O.: How did your family react to you being on “Ellen”?Melton: They were super excited. My sister actually decided to go with me and take the trip with me. That was a great experience. Overall, every-one was really excited. My whole family watched it at home and they were really happy for me. I mean, it’s not like I necessarily want to have a career. It’s never been my intention to have a career out of this, like acting or being a YouTube star.

The D.O.: Who was actually recording you when you were under the anesthesia?Melton: My mom recorded the video, but my best friend, Hannah Redfield, posted the video with the subtitles on it. But my mom recorded the video and was there with me after surgery. My friend posted the video for Rotolo’s social media class.

The D.O.: Would you want to make more viral videos in the future?Melton: I think it’s a very interesting, upcoming field. I know that YouTube has their own office now, so I think that it’s a very interesting field, and I would like to. I think it’s very fun, but I

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Part 1 of 4“Who is Syracuse?” is a series running in The Daily Orange highlighting individuals who embody the spirit of the Syracuse University community. Readers were encouraged to nominate people they thought fit this profile, and this series explores their stories.

By Meredith NewmanASST. NEWS EDITOR

F or Native Americans, lacrosse is more than a sport. The game served as a spiri-tual guide for tribes. It was a healing

game for sick tribe members. It prepared war-riors to attack their enemies.

And it was lacrosse that prepared Katherine Frega for battle.

At the age of 17, Frega was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma, forcing her to postpone her freshman year at Syracuse University. During treatment, Frega used the guidance of lacrosse to fight the disease that plagued her for almost three years.

As she finishes her freshman year free of cancer, Frega, now 20, is back on the field and playing the sport she loves for SU women’s club lacrosse.

Now, Frega is on the offensive.•••

Since she was a little girl, Frega had one goal: play lacrosse at SU as a Division-I athlete.

She wore No. 22, a number traditionally given to the best lacrosse player at SU. She

bought a wooden lacrosse stick to improve her skills, and practiced every day in her backyard with her dad.

Everything changed during a summer day in July 2009.

“I was just practicing with my dad, running typical drills,” she said. “But I was so out of breath. I felt like I was running through sand. I knew something was wrong.”

By May 2010, she was getting worse. Her doctor scheduled a chest X-ray and CT scan. The tests showed Frega had a tumor the size of a football on her lymph nodes.

To get through the difficult chemotherapy sessions, Frega would bring her wooden lacrosse stick to the hospital. With it, she visualized a lacrosse game in which the toxic chemicals flowed into her body and invaded the tumor.

She entered the first half strong, attacking the cancer from the beginning. But the oppo-nent wasn’t going away.

At halftime, her team needed to re-evaluate.Since the numerous treatments and clinical

trials weren’t as effective as doctors had hoped, Frega said receiving a bone marrow transplant was one of the last lines of treatment.

Her sister tested as a match. On Jan. 17, 2012,

Frega received her sister’s bone marrow. Sixteen days later, Frega was discharged,

setting a hospital record. Because of the success of the transplant, she planned to attend SU in the fall.

But in May 2012, Frega was back in the hos-pital. She developed graft-versus-host-disease. The new transplant cells weren’t received well by her body, and instead of healing, the cells attacked her body.

Frega left the hospital two days before start-ing her freshman year. Doctors and social workers tried to convince her to take another semester off, but Frega refused, said her father, Mark Frega.

“She just had it in her mind. She was going to get up there,” he said. “It was Syracuse or bust.”

•••“You have cancer.” Frega never wants anyone to hear those

words.For her, attending SU is the first step in

accomplishing this. Frega is a biochemistry major on the pre-

med track. She is on a Relay for Life commit-tee, joined the club sailing and club lacrosse teams, is a brother of the medical fraternity Phi Beta Sigma and is in the Renee Crown University Honors Program — all with a nearly perfect GPA.

She is welcoming and accepting of all people, said Mark Frega, also an SU alumnus. His daughter was destined to attend SU, he added, due to the intense spirit of both Frega and those who attend the university.

People don’t forget her name, said Heather Buchan, one of Frega’s closest friends and fellow cancer survivor.

“She’s a fighter. Katherine was able to turn a bad situation into a positive experience,” said Buchan, a sophomore advertising major.

Frega said she hopes to become an oncologist who specifically works with children.

Since her diagnosis, Frega has been involved in the HEADstrong Foundation, an organiza-tion that provides resources and counseling to blood cancer patients. The foundation was created by Nicholas Colleluori, a Hofstra Uni-versity lacrosse player who later died from Hodgkin lymphoma in 2006.

The foundation’s president, Cheryl Colle-luori, Nicholas’ mother, said Frega was one of the most relentless young adults she’s ever met.

“There wasn’t a pity party,” Colleluori said. “She had a relentless attitude that never wavered, similar to my Nick.”

She reminded Colleluori of her son so much that Frega was given an award in honor of Nicholas’ memory last year.

This summer, Frega will be interning with the State University of New York Upstate Medical University. She will assist researchers studying cancer.

Said Frega: “Right now, there’s a war on cancer. I won my battle. But now, I want to help win the war.”

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Through lacrosse, freshman defeats cancer, inspired to find cure to disease

Student involvement drives graduate student, dictates his dedication to SU

KATHERINE FREGAMIKE SMITH

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By Alfred NgSTAFF WRITER

M ike Smith stumbled upon Syracuse University Ambulance through a series of fortunate coincidences.

On his first night on campus, he was invited to hang out at a friend’s apartment nearby when he noticed someone wearing an SUA patch.

Smith mentioned his experience as an emer-gency medical technician to start conversa-tion, and found out everyone in the apartment worked for SUA. He had no intention of joining the organization five years ago, and still consid-ers his involvement a serendipitous discovery.

In the last five years, Smith has worn almost every hat available with the ambu-lance corps. He has served as driver, crew chief, trainer, supervisor and hiring coor-dinator, and has found every role to have beneficial aspects, he said.

“Whether you’re a new member or a senior member, you have a real opportunity to impact the students,” Smith said. “It’s really reward-ing. I’m very proud of the involvement because we’re giving a real service to the community and I’ve learned things that are hard to match elsewhere.”

From terrified freshman to accomplished

graduate student, Smith has contributed all he could to SU.

This year marks his fifth year of involve-ment with SUA, his first full year with the IDEA Entrepreneurship program at SU and his fourth year holding a leadership role within the Theta Chi fraternity.

“It’s so easy to find something that you want to get involved in. I remember being a scared freshman and not having a lot of friends here,”

Smith said. “Then I realized the campus is just about finding your niche of people. Whether it’s the ambulance corps or a fraternity, it’s about finding your network of people and diving right

in. My interest in giving back is stemmed out of my interest with involvement.”

Smith is a graduate student from New Jersey who first arrived on campus as a freshman advertising and entrepreneurship and emerg-ing enterprises major in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management.

Smith said he believes his most important role as a member of SUA was providing relief for the victims that call.

He said calling an ambulance often implies a worrisome situation for the injured, and he enjoys comforting the patients seated in the back of the ambulance.

Now serving as SUA’s training supervisor and field training officer, Smith said he hopes to move the organization forward by training new members to be better than he was when he first joined.

“Something that I’m really proud of is my successors,” Smith said. “I think I’m very good at realizing how I did in my role, and more importantly, figuring out how the next person can do better.”

He became involved with the IDEA entrepre-neurship organization last year as an entrepre-neurial consultant for the startup program. He joined the group because he saw it as a chance to help students turn their dreams into realities by connecting them to the resources they need.

Caitlin Moriarty, a graduate student in the Janklow Arts Leadership Program in the Col-lege of Arts and Sciences, has gotten to know Smith through working with him in IDEA.

Moriarty said she believes Smith’s innate open-mindedness is what makes him so benefi-cial to a program like IDEA, and so inclined to be involved in a variety of things on campus.

She worked with Smith in planning Emerg-ing Talk, an event hosted by IDEA, and was impressed with his ability to be a team player and work with everyone in the process.

Moriarty said she believes that even after graduating, Smith will add positivity to the group.

“I don’t think he’ll be leaving in any capac-ity,” Moriarty said. “Even at our last meeting here, he was talking about how he could stay involved after graduation. His enthusiasm will travel beyond him being here as a student.”

In addition to his involvement with SUA and IDEA, Smith is also a brother of Theta Chi and has served in several leadership positions within the group. Smith said he is proud of how much an entirely student-run organiza-

tion can accomplish.Throughout all of his contributions to the

campus, he considers many of his accomplish-ments as events of fortune and shows gratitude for all of his luck.

“I refuse to believe that luck doesn’t come into play. Anyone who doesn’t believe luck comes into play, to me, is just lying,” Smith said. “I definitely believe I’ve earned some of the things I’ve got, but I definitely believe that luck comes with a part of it, too.”

Smith describes himself as a passionate advocate for SU because of all of the opportuni-ties he was given. He tries to contribute so much

to the university because it has given him so much.

He will be unable to volunteer for the ambu-lance services or his fraternity next year as an alumnus, but he still plans to remain in Syra-cuse and stay involved, Smith said.

“Some people aren’t involved and they don’t enjoy themselves. Then you have people who take the exact opposite direction, who get involved in many organizations and you see how it comes back in ten-folds,” Smith said. “As long as you find something, it’s really easy to come and give back.”

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By Lizzie HartPRESENTATION DIRECTOR

For those who look forward to the beginning of the school year solely for the new supplies, those who spend more money on notebooks than text-books and those more protective of their favorite writing utensil than family or friends, the Moles-kine Journal application is for you.

Creativity flows from your fingertips while using the Moleskine Journal app. It is available for both iPods and iPads, and has all of the same features you would find in your brand-new, colorful Moleskine notebook.

Whether you need a place to type up class notes, doodle or write poetry, you can adjust the settings to fit your needs.

Each notebook you create is customizable. With the app, you can make and name various notebooks for different purposes. The options are endless: You have the ability to change your page type with ruled, gridded, storyboard or blank page options.

You can choose different colors for the books’ virtual covers. You can also pick the writing or drawing instrument that suits your purpose, including a pencil, paintbrush

or highlighter. The drawing utensils are touch-sensitive, so the virtual ink stream varies based on how much pressure the user applies to the device.

You can even insert photos and use the note-book as a scrapbook of sorts. The app includes a built-in camera to shorten documenting time.

When it comes to typing, you have lots of typefaces from which to choose, including Papyrus or Times New Roman.

The Moleskine app even features the signa-ture pocket all Moleskine notebooks have to store photos, text and drawings for later use.

Lastly, you can link your Moleskine note-books with your Evernote or Dropbox accounts for storage. This gives you a sense of stability and security that a print Moleskine notebook doesn’t have. You can share your notebook through email, Facebook and Twitter.

The Moleskine app’s best feature is that it’s free, so instead of spending upwards of $20 on a two-pack of Moleskines, you have an unlimited number of the brightly colored notebooks at your fingertips.

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By Noah SilversteinSTAFF WRITER

The stage was set for a concert straight from the Reagan administration.

When Robbie Hart started rocking out with his wedding band, the audience soon realized this wasn’t your standard musical. Neon lights flashed, dancers in taffeta dresses flew through the air and electric guitars riffed power chords.

As the opening song neared its end, Hart assumed power stance, solidifying the electric-ity that the remainder of the performance would need to live up to.

The First Year Players’ production of “The Wedding Singer,” the musical adaptation of Adam Sandler’s cult hit movie, opened on Thursday for its three-night run. With one of the most talented casts in FYP’s recent history, the show certainly had all the right elements to secure an extraordinary night at the theater. Inconsistency, however, played a part in hinder-ing the young cast from fully achieving heights that were just at arms reach.

“The Wedding Singer” tells the story of Rob-bie, the leader of a wedding band in mid-1980s New Jersey who loses himself after being jilted at the alter by his fiance. He finds solace in Julia, a waitress who he befriends.

It becomes clear that the two are meant for one another, but Julia’s greedy Wall Street investor fiance Glenn, as well as other roadblocks, stand in their way. With the help of his band mates and his grandma, Robbie ponders: Does true love prevail over the things in life we only think matter?

The beauty of a student-run theater orga-nization like FYP is the sense of community it fosters for its new members each year.

The show’s director, junior television, radio and film major Bryce Garcia, remembers his turn on the stage in 2011’s “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” “like it was yesterday.” Now, as the chief visionary for this year’s incarnation, he said he’s delighted at the chance to work with the new class.

Putting on a comedy like “The Wedding Singer” that leans toward the lighter side of

the musical theater repertoire seems like the easier route to take. However, Garcia claims the show is deceivingly complex, underrated among many of the other musicals considered for this year’s production.

“It’s fun, but very technical at the same time,” Garcia said, referring to the complex rock-show staging and music required of each performance.

Such is where the production met occasional hiccups. The hidden difficulties behind “The Wed-ding Singer’s” approachable facade kept FYP’s performance from being excellent.

In particular, the second act’s top number, “All About the Green,” a song proclaiming greed and all that defined the 1980s, had its hand in too many visually appealing tactics, forcing it to look sloppy.

As with any opening night, technical dif-ficulties with microphones had their way with the young cast. Despite these set backs, the actors maintained utter professionalism, never wavering in their performances.

Shining brightest of all was leading man

Zach Phillips, a sophomore television, radio and film major, whose charm, seemingly endless vocal talent and sympathetic qualities radiated from the stage in his performance as Robbie.

While needing the show’s first number to ease into the role, he found his footing and proved unstoppable until the very end. Phil-lips’ varied ability helped to perfectly execute “Casualty of Love,” Robbie’s bitter hate-letter to love after losing his own.

Shanice Bland, a television, radio and film major, steals scenes as Linda, Robbie’s ex-fiance who re-enters the picture at an incon-venient moment in the musical’s plot. During her moment in the spotlight, “Let Me Come Home,” Bland shows off her intense voice and dance moves.

Was FYP’s “The Wedding Singer” perfect? No. But perfection means little in comparison to the sheer joy visible on the cast members’ faces. They truly loved what they were doing.

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By Kristin RossASST. FEATURE EDITOR

Unless you are a child prodigy studying for the national spelling bee, memorizing the entire English language is seriously impossible.

For those times that deem you unworthy of participating in conversations due to the use of large vocabulary, feel inferior no more. Thanks to smartphone dictionary applica-tions, it is now socially acceptable to carry around a pocket dictionary.

But the most useful is the Urban Diction-ary app.

Say you’re excited about MayFest and are getting ready to pregame. In the spirit of the carefree feeling the day brings, you ask your sheltered roommate if he has any chasers. Con-fused, he asks, “What’s a chaser?”

Your facepalm could have been avoided if your roommate had slyly used the Urban

Dictionary app.The screen is simple and user-friendly.

Type the word or phrase you want to look up in the search bar and the results instantly appear in a list format.

Based on the Urban Dictionary website, the app is essentially a dictionary filled with slang

words and phrases posted with user-submitted definitions and accompanying sentences.

For example, searching “chaser” lends the definition: “Something you drink right after taking a shot or swig of hard alcohol. Usually juice, pop, or beer.”

The accompanying sentence reads: “You gotta use a chaser when drinkin everclear!”

Bonus tip: Type your name in the search bar. You’ve never read a more colorful description.

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to Tulsa, Okla., in 1964 in search of a preacher who can heal her scarred face. Fifteen years prior, young Violet was injured when her father was chopping wood and the axe blade flew off of its handle, deeply slicing her face.

She has since been scarred for life, both physically and emotionally.

While riding a bus from her hometown of Spruce Pine, N.C., to Tulsa, 20-year-old Violet befriends two young army men: Monty and Flick. So begins a racially diverse love triangle set during the heart of the civil rights movement.

Eventually, Violet embraces her inner beauty, despite her imperfect skin, and falls in love with Monty. Seeing past his dark com-plexion, she realizes love isn’t skin-deep.

Tony-nominated composer Jeanine Tesori wrote the music for “Violet,” a musical with a script based on Doris Betts’ short story, “The Ugliest Pilgrim.” While Tesori is best known for composing the music for “Shrek: The Musical,” “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and “Caroline, or Change,” the music in “Violet” doesn’t compare to her other work. It makes sense why it opened off-Broadway in 1997 and failed to take off into mainstream.

The production starts strong with young Violet, played flawlessly by drama department sophomore Lila Coogan, belting out the ener-getic opening number. It turns into a company-backed duet with the older Violet, played by junior musical theater major Carly Blane, as she boards the Greyhound bus to begin her journey.

Violet’s bus ride to Tulsa is seamlessly intertwined with flashbacks of conversations she and her father had when she was young.

Coogan and Blane similarly portray Violet as naive, stubborn and curious yet deter-

mined. The older one’s voice is more mature than the younger’s, but both are beautifully powerful. The two actresses deliver convinc-ing, dynamic performances, so there is never any doubt they are the same character.

Violet’s father, however, is written as one-dimensional. Actor and junior musical theater major Jordan Weagraff is unfortunately given a role that has little backstory to work with, other than accidentally giving Violet her facial scar. He constantly gives Violet tough love and is almost always shouting.

The standout male for the show is regrettably neither of the two actors in the love triangle with Violet, but is instead delivered by the evangeli-cal preacher who Violet seeks to treat her scars.

Christian Palmer, a junior musical theater major, belts out his handful of solo numbers while introducing an animated television personality during the filming of his televised sermon that counters perfectly with the preacher’s off-camera rudeness.

The music for the show is engaging, but does not include a memorably hummable tune. With 28 songs — including reprises — noted in the playbill, the two-and-a-half-hour musical could easily be shortened by cutting some filler songs that don’t move the plot forward.

Rodney Hudson’s direction of “Violet” is enhanced by the extraordinary set, designed by award-winning scenic designer Felix Cochren Jr. The central set piece begins as the inside of a bus, but it spreads out into the inside of a church sanctuary, in which the aisle of the bus becomes the aisle to the pulpit.

Although “Violet” is a student production, it contains an obviously talented cast. Many actors could have arguably performed when the musical was off-Broadway — even if the script itself might not be ready for production.

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wouldn’t necessarily want to do it for a career.The D.O.: What has been your favorite

moment since you made this video?Melton: I would have to say my favorite moment

would just be people’s reactions to the video — it just makes my life. Like when my seventh-grade teacher — she’d seen the video, she lives in Vermont now and I hadn’t seen her in years — and she posted that she’d seen my video on the “Ellen” show and just said how excited she was.

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D espite so many crime dramas on televi-sion right now, ABC’s “Castle” appears to have differentiated itself enough to avoid

getting lost in the mix.The show has achieved incredible success

throughout its five seasons, with accolades including Shorty, TV Guide Magazine, People’s Choice and Emmy nominations and awards. It continues to receive high ratings, consistently defeating competing crime dramas such as beating “Hawaii Five-0” by about 2.8 million viewers last week.

The show’s delayed episode, “Still,” features one of the protagonists, detective Kate Beckett, played by Stana Katic, standing on a pressure-sensitive bomb as her team searches for a way to disarm it. After the events at the Boston

Marathon a week ago, ABC decided to postpone this episode, forcing the “Castle” team to swap it with another.

While this will mix up the season’s chronol-ogy, the cast was completely supportive of the decision. Katic addressed the swap via Twitter, saying the choice was made out of respect for those affected by the tragedy.

Katic’s tweet resembles the classiness that “Castle” aspires for. The show has a reputation for being tastefully clever. Each crime scenario is entertainingly original, and the character dynamics are satisfyingly sassy.

“Castle” revolves around the experiences of Beckett and her trusty sidekick Richard Castle, a famous mystery novelist who helps solve crimes while delivering quick-witted puns. In

one episode, Castle nicknames his relation-ship with Beckett “Caskett,” the way celebrity couples are often categorized with a combina-tion of names.

While the plot of each episode is typically independent from the previous one, the series follows a character-based chronology that centers on Beckett and Castle’s roller coaster relationship. At first, Beckett hates the idea of Castle following her around, fearing he will slow her down. But, she soon realizes that he is far more useful than he lets on. Castle’s ability to think like a crimi-nal and generate specific details helps her solve many cases.

The climactic moment of Castle and Beck-ett’s relationship comes at the end of season

four when the two overcome their stubbornness and proclaim their love for each other.

Although this highly anticipated moment triggered a nationwide “Castle”-loving celebration, it could have been the moment where the show jumped the shark. People tend to lose interest after a show’s two main protagonists get together—take “The Nanny,” “Smallville” and “Kyle XY,” for example — and I was afraid this is what would happen to the detective-cop duo.

On the contrary, the pair is still going strong. “Castle” has almost completed its fifth season and was renewed for a sixth. It’s great news for Castle and Beckett, and a great reason to binge-watch the series this summer.

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By Jacob Klinger and David WilsonTHE DAILY ORANGE

WASHINGTON — Dominic Lamolinara shoul-dered some of the blame for Syracuse’s loss to Hobart. He made just seven saves and allowed 13 goals in Tuesday’s loss to the Statesmen.

He’s been solid for the Orange for the most part since joining the starting lineup on March 19 against Providence, but his performance against Hobart led SU head coach John Desko to discuss replacing the struggling goaltender with former starter Bobby Wardwell. Therefore, Lamolina-ra’s performance on Saturday was much needed.

“Dom was a little shaken up at the Hobart loss,” Syracuse defender Brian Megill said. “Dom’s a great leader and he’s going to get on his game eventually, and he did.”

Lamolinara’s struggles continued early — he allowed three goals without making a save in the opening quarter — but he straightened up and locked down the Georgetown offense in the final three quarters of the No. 3 Orange’s (10-3, 4-1 Big East) 9-8 win on Saturday. He finished the day with 10 saves to just eight goals allowed, good for a 55.6 save percentage.

But he didn’t necessarily struggle in the first quarter because of anything he was doing wrong. Twice the SU defense let a Hoya in close for an easy shot, and the third goal came on an extra-man opportunity for GU.

“I was seeing the ball the whole game,” Lamolinara said. “They just had some real good shots in the first quarter.”

After the first quarter, the gaffes were few and far between for Lamolinara. As Syracuse made its run in the second half, Lamolinara stood tall between the pipes.

He reached down to make saves — like one on Zac Guy early in the second half — and leaped up to knock balls out of the air, like he did to Joe Bucci’s shot midway through the third quarter.

“They got a couple of decent looks and I thought he made some very good saves, some one-on-one saves and some good shots from the outside he took away from (them),” Desko said. “He finished with 10 saves on the day and it came at the right time.”

But the biggest play of the day came without him even making a save. When Syracuse mid-fielder Steve Ianzito’s stick broke with less than 30 seconds remaining, the Orange went into a de facto, man-down situation while nursing a one-goal lead.

He braced for the shot, but Lamolinara never panicked. He let his defense rotate as Drew Jenkins came on to replace Ianzito. Dan McKin-

ney’s pass sailed out of bounds.Lamolinara made the saves he needed, but

on the final play, luck smiled upon him, as well.“The first thing I thought of was, ‘OK, shot’s

about to come,’” Lamolinara said. “But he didn’t have much of an angle, so he held on to it and we were able to rotate down and I don’t think they knew where the open guy was, so we lucked out.”

Paduda solid againCal Paduda and Chris Daddio held their own against a faceoff specialist ranked in the top 10 nationally.

Syracuse won 9-of-20 faceoffs and held the ball for crucial stretches as freshman Paduda battled Georgetown’s Tyler Knarr. Daddio chipped in, taking 1-of-3 to break up Knarr and the rest of the GU specialists’ momentum, swapping notes with Paduda as SU fought to a team-wide, 45-percent performance at the X.

Paduda went toe to toe with one of the nation’s best — a long pole, too — but had ample help from wings Matt Harris and Ianzito.

“Watching him on film, he’s actually pretty quick, too,” Paduda said. “So it was definitely an awesome and unique experience to go against a long pole who has some tendencies of a short-pole FOGO … but all the credit goes to our wings, they were great today.”

While Paduda won five ground balls on his own, Harris won four and Ianzito chipped in two. Paduda’s grinding style prolonged the duels for possession, only truly struggling when

Knarr pinned Paduda’s stick.Paduda, Daddio and faceoff coach Lelan

Rogers talked about ways to leverage against Knarr’s long pole. Knarr displayed an instinc-tive anticipation for the whistle at times, though, and SU had no answer for it.

“On the one that he beat Daddio cleanly was he just got a good read on the whistle and there’s no defense for that,” Paduda said.

Fatigue delayed SU’s control of the game, taxing the whole team but Syracuse’s wings in particular. But Paduda’s ability to delay Knarr’s rushing style at the X gave SU enough opportu-nities to ultimately bury the Hoyas.

Said Megill: “It’s great when we can score and have almost a 60-40 chance at the faceoff.”

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By Debbie TruongENTERPRISE EDITOR

Morgan Nandin doesn’t like the hits that come straight at her — if she’s not diving or sliding, it’s not fun.

Manipulating her body to make a play has become a force of habit for the shortstop,

dating back to when her father coached base-ball at Le Moyne

and her brother Matt donned a jersey there. “I grew up on a baseball field,” she said.

“After every baseball game, I’d go out there and I’d practice and I would try and copy Derek Jeter, try and do all these crazy plays. It’s kind of just like muscle memory now and it’s just fun.”

With that agility propelling Syracuse (17-24, 5-9 Big East), the Orange edged Seton Hall

(16-24, 4-10) 4-3 in the final game of a three-game weekend series against the Pirates at SU Softball Stadium in front of 251. On Saturday, Syracuse dropped two games to Seton Hall, including a high-scoring 16-15 affair in which a 10-run Syracuse comeback wasn’t enough.

Nandin had plenty of opportunities to dive and slide during the weekend’s three-game series against the Pirates, including a play to open the fourth inning of Sunday’s game. Nan-din dove for the ball and turned a razor-sharp throw to first.

Later in the inning, Nandin spearheaded a double play by making the throw to catcher Ashley Dimon. She was able close in on a runner at third, getting the ball to Corinne Ozanne for the tag. Ozanne turned the ball for another out at second to the delight of the crowd, which stomped in approval against the metal bleachers.

Nandin converts on high-drama plays that aren’t conceivable for other shortstops, head coach Leigh Ross said. Watching Nan-din practice mid-air spins during practice has become routine.

“She just makes plays that most shortstops don’t even get to. It’s not even an option,” Ross said. “She’ll practice that move in practice, just to get extras.”

On Sunday, headed by Nandin’s defensive play and three home runs, Syracuse kept the Pirates at bay, staving off a sixth-inning push that tied the game at three. Syracuse managed to recover from a shaky fifth inning from second baseman Mary Dombrowski, who mis-judged an infield pop fly that landed feet from her. In the same inning with the bases loaded, Dombrowski rushed fielding a ground ball, allowing it to roll beyond her ankles.

Before Syracuse could recover, Seton Hall sent two runners home, leveling the game 3-3.

After Nandin snatched the final out to close the inning, designated hitter Danielle Chitkowski answered during Syracuse’s first sixth-inning at-bat, sending the ball sailing left of the scoreboard, but in fair territory. Dombrowski breathed a sigh of relief from the dugout, thanking Chitkowski after she crossed home plate.

“When she came out, she was like, ‘I hit that one for you,’” Dombrowski said of Chitkowski.

The home run capped off a solid offensive effort. A pair of homers at the bottom of the third by right fielder Shirley Daniels and first baseman Jasmine Watson, respectively, gave Syracuse the early cushion it needed to eke out a win.

But Syracuse’s win on Sunday wasn’t con-fined to the plate or fielding. The pitching was there, too. Ross, who was critical of Syracuse’s pitching following Saturday’s losses, said Stacy Kuwik recovered nicely Sunday.

Pitching the entirety of Sunday’s game, Kuwik allowed six hits and had a hand in every seventh-inning out to close the game. She struck out Seton Hall’s Jordan Moses, then followed that play by retrieving an airborne hit for the second out. With two outs and no runners on, Kuwik raced to the first base bag as Watson retrieved a grounder. Positioning herself to beat the Seton Hall runner for the tag, Kuwik closed out the final inning and solidified Syracuse’s win in decisive fashion.

Coming back from Saturday’s losses was important for the Orange, but less than three weeks short of the Big East tourna-ment, shortstop Nandin recognizes the team has to approach its remaining games with added urgency.

“We really needed this win today,” Nandin said. “The season’s really winding down and we need to buckle down and get every win we possibly can.”

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snaps for the Blue team, while Hunt took every snap for the Orange team.

Midway through the first quarter, Hunt threw his first highlight-reel pass of the day, connecting with West. The 6-foot-2 wide receiver blew by cornerback Joe Nassib on the left sideline, caught Hunt’s high-arching pass and took it to the end zone for a 49-yard touchdown reception.

Last year, quarterback Ryan Nassib threw the ball to his favorite targets Alec Lemon and Marcus Sales with regularity. Lemon and Sales caught more than half of Nassib’s touchdown passes, leading SU to an 8-5 season.

This year, with Nassib, Lemon and Sales gone, Syracuse will need new offensive weapons to fill the void. Saturday showed Hunt and West might be key components of the answer.

West caught six passes for 82 yards and two touchdowns, the second of which gave the Orange team a 24-7 advantage late in the third quarter. West blazed from right to left, burning the Blue team’s defense for a 14-yard strike.

“(Jarrod’s) a great player and he can jump out the roof,” Hunt said. “Being able to just put the ball up and have him jump and go get it is wonderful.”

West averaged 13.7 yards per catch last season, which put him behind Lemon and Sales. He was the only Syracuse receiver to play in all 13 games and emerged as a reliable target, compiling 94- and 98-yard games against Southern California and South Florida, respectively.

Now, he’ll likely serve as Hunt’s No. 1 option — a role he’s eager to embrace.

“I’m trying to step up and bring everybody with me,” West said. “It’s tough. We have a talented group, but no one really has experience and no one has played a lot of plays, so every-

one’s starting from a fresh start.”West credited Hunt for placing the ball

exactly where he needed it on Saturday. He said the offense clicked so much that the Orange veered away from the run game in order to give Hunt more reps.

“We went away from the run because we were getting like six or seven yards a pop,” West said. “We were trying to let T-Hunt get some more time airing the ball out, and I think he did well.”

But when the Orange team did run the ball, Morris found openings and torched the second team. He didn’t see any game action last season, but will likely see an expanded role starting in August.

Syracuse’s run game is arguably its deepest unit heading into the season. Jerome Smith and Prince-Tyson Gulley will get the bulk of the car-ries, but with Smith already a clear-cut starter and Gulley sidelined with an injury, Morris had a chance to prove himself Saturday.

He responded, leading all players with 68 rushing yards on eight carries. Morris show-cased his quick feet and ability to break tackles, leaving defenders in the dust.

He finished the first quarter with four rush-es for 57 yards, and broke free for a 39-yard touchdown run.

“It was a great effort by the offensive line-men,” Morris said. “They got me where I needed to be and I just found a hole and I ran.”

In total, the Orange team finished with 18 first downs in an accelerated game with a run-ning clock in the second half.

West said the Syracuse offense has some-thing to prove with the departures of Nassib, Lemon and Sales. Saturday was a start.

“It was fun, just trying to go out here and make plays,” West said. “Just want to show everybody that we’re out here with a high-powered offense, just like last year.”

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After slow start, SU defense clamps down on GU in 2nd halfBy Jacob Klinger

ASST. SPORTS EDITOR

WASHINGTON — For more than 23 minutes, Syracuse shut out Georgetown. The Hoyas had little chance inside, where David Hamlin and Brian Megill consistently clobbered any attack brave enough to approach the Orange’s crease.

In that stretch — spanning most of the third quarter and nearly all of the fourth — No. 3 SU

(10-3, 4-1 Big East) seized control of another trap game to end an exhausting stretch of five games in 14 days. It signaled a stark shift from the opening minutes of the game, when GU’s Travis Comeau got free on the crease for two goals in less than seven minutes. The Orange looked slow initially and struggled on defense as the Hoyas (5-8, 2-3) pulled out to an early lead. But Syracuse adjusted its slide packages, mixed in

some zone and comfortably depended on goalie Dominic Lamolinara, only surrendering a brief two-goal run to end the game.

“We started calling out our zone and it knocked them off their pace and just unsettled them, and it gave us a chance to catch up,” Lamo-linara said. “And from there, we just tore it up.”

The Orange looked vulnerable to start, though. Twice, SU overcommitted to a GU attack on the goal line, leaving Comeau wide open on the doorstep to fire past Lamolinara. His second came on a man-up after Megill threw a high cross-check on Comeau, covering for an out-of-position Sean Young.

Young struggled with his off-ball defense. The sophomore started his SU career assigned to covering just one man. Largely, he succeeded, limiting John Hopkins’ Brandon Benn and Vil-lanova’s Jack Rice. But on Saturday, the Orange needed him to work as one of six shifting, slid-ing and shouting men on defense. In the opening frame, he was just one of many sluggish Syra-cuse players, only his mistake made SU pay.

“When he played Benn and Rice from Vil-lanova, his job was to cover the crease guy,” Lamolinara said. “But we can’t have him do that anymore, we need him to do a little more, and I feel like he was just watching, ball-watching a little bit more.”

Comeau got successfully lost in the shuffle atop the Hoyas offense. But SU began sliding from the backside of the defense, instead of Young’s place on the crease, and it paid massive dividends. The Orange also changed to a zone. Georgetown had no answer for it.

After Comeau’s goal with 7:06 left in the first quarter, Georgetown didn’t score for the rest

of the period. The Hoyas couldn’t get past the perimeter, and when they forced shots from range, Lamolinara saved them easily.

But the critical drought kicked in with 10:29 left in the third quarter. GU barely had the ball, and when it did, it gave it away.

“Down the stretch, it looked like they were just trying to do too much too fast,” Megill said. “And they weren’t looking the balls into their stick and making the sound plays.”

Georgetown gave the Orange a scare with two minutes to play. SU led 9-6, but two transi-tion goals from Dan McKinney and Charles McCormick forced the Syracuse defense to clamp down for one last stand.

With 1:04 remaining, SU took the field in a scattered group off of a Georgetown timeout. The Hoyas sprayed the ball around the outside, then held it in the right corner.

With 25 seconds left, SU’s Steve Ianzito was backed down the right goal line by Reilly O’Connor. Ianzito’s stick broke, forcing him to sprint off. Panic ensued on the field and the Orange sideline.

“If there was a guy next to me, I was going to catch the ball and break his hand because I didn’t want him to throw the ball or take a shot,” Megill said.

Instead, McKinney threw an easy pass away and the Orange sprinted the other way. The defense had bailed SU out one last time.

Said Syracuse head coach John Desko: “Any time you hold any team to six goals for the bet-ter part of four quarters, I think you’re doing a pretty good job.”

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half, Maltz tied the game, ending a 19-minute scoring drought. GU midfielder Tyler Knarr responded immediately with a goal off of the faceoff win, but SU had found its rhythm.

Syracuse turned to its bread and butter for the next goal: a feed from JoJo Marasco to Luke Cometti.

Then, Kevin Rice scored to give Syracuse its second lead of the day before Hakeem Lecky, who has struggled with his shot all season,

cranked one from 15 yards out to send the Orange into the fourth quarter in control of the game’s tempo — and scoreboard — 8-6.

“I thought we did better in the second half — a few less turnovers — but I think what we saw was the accumulation of some of the games in a couple of weeks,” Desko said, “and I’m very happy to get out of here with a win today.”

A Cometti goal early in the fourth quarter stretched SU’s lead to 9-6, the largest for either team on the day. But Syracuse’s rhythm van-ished quickly. The same mistakes that plagued the Orange early in the game resurfaced in the final 10 minutes.

Shots found Georgetown goaltender Jake Haley, instead of the back of the net. Jarring yet clean hits were replaced by ones that drew whistles. Offense cycled without purpose and led to the game’s only stall warning.

The Hoyas, meanwhile, reeled off two goals in 48 seconds to cut Syracuse’s lead to one in the final two minutes.

“We know we’re a good team,” Marasco said. “We know that we’re going to win and for us to bear down in all these close games is only going to help.”

But the problems that plagued the Orange all day — the sloppiness, the boneheaded errors —

now plagued GU. Now, it was the Hoyas throwing balls away and forcing shots. Even on the game’s final possession, as SU was forced into a man-down situation after midfielder Steve Ianzito broke his stick, Georgetown shot itself in the foot.

Dan McKinney stood 10 yards away from the net with a chance to tie the game. But his pass attempt to Reilly O’Connor sailed high. Even with all of its mistakes, mostly unforced, Syracuse would escape with a victory.

“I refuse to lose, and so do the rest of the guys on this team,” Megill said, “and we really showed it coming out of halftime.”

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Soon enough, there will be even more play-ers who will need to learn that same language. When the rest of Syracuse’s recruiting class arrives — something Shafer said he’s excited for — it will only bolster the roster further and increase the competition at several positions. In turn, those competitions will continue to drive the team through training camp. There’s been no lack of intensity through spring practices, no lack of aggressiveness.

Perhaps not having a starting quarterback is best for Syracuse. The Orange lost Ryan Nassib to graduation after he finished a record-breaking season, capped with a Pinstripe Bowl victory. Nassib might be a first-round pick in this week’s NFL Draft. Syracuse has to replace him. It’s created a competition that has no con-clusion in sight quite yet.

Hunt was impressive on Saturday. He’s seen action in one game in his collegiate career, but looked poised in the Spring Game. He unleashed a beautiful, 49-yard touchdown pass to Jarrod

West down the left sideline. Hunt finished the game 19-for-29 and threw for 209 yards.

His competitors, John Kinder and Charley Loeb, both went 11-for-20 and threw for 55 yards combined. They didn’t get as many snaps, but they got enough to prove Hunt has

the edge in the quarterback competition. And when Oklahoma transfer Drew Allen arrives this summer, followed by incoming freshmen Austin Wilson and Mitch Kimble, that compe-tition will only get more intense.

“My work’s not finished. It was a battle and the battle’s not over because we have another quarterback coming in, two more freshmen,” Hunt said. “I’m not counting anybody out. They’re good for competition. If I’m the front-runner now, I want to do that all through camp.”

At running back, Jerome Smith looked every bit the barreling, menacing force in the backfield that put Syracuse on his back this past season. Right on his heels, though, was sophomore George Morris II, who didn’t play last year but has left Syracuse fans drooling over his talent and potential in the spring. Add Prince-Tyson Gulley — who missed spring practice after having surgery to repair an upper body injury — to the mix in training camp and the Orange has a lethal, three-headed monster at running back.

On defense, junior college transfer lineback-er Josh Kirkland delivered a couple of crushing hits, including one in the fourth quarter that drew a collective “Ooh” from the Carrier Dome crowd. Sophomore cornerback Julian Whigham was all over the place, breaking up passes all afternoon.

There were ample good signs for Syracuse.

Of course, these impressive performances didn’t come against Clemson, Florida State or even Georgia Tech. It was in a Spring Game, little more than a highly attended — by Syra-cuse standards — practice.

But there were enough to show the Orange will be competitive in its new conference. Syracuse’s players have learned the changes ushered in by the new coaching staff, a period of transition that wasn’t necessarily enjoyable in the beginning.

“It’s a little different,” West said. “It’s a little frustrating at first, but then when you start to get it and start to settle in, it’s a lot of fun.”

Syracuse underwent a major transition in these past four months, but it’s been settled these past five weeks. Optimism replaced skep-ticism and hope replaced worry.

One transition is about completed, while a transition to a new league will begin soon. Syra-cuse looks poised to overcome that transition with just as much success.

Chris Iseman is the sports editor at The Daily Orange, where his column appears

occasionally. He can be reached at cjiseman@syr.edu, or on Twitter at @chris_iseman.

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“My work’s not finished. It was a battle and the battle’s not over, because we have another quarterback coming in, two more freshmen.”

Terrel HuntSU QUARTERBACK

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M O N D AYapril 22, 2013

By David WilsonASST. SPORTS EDITOR

W ASHINGTON — Trailing by one as it headed into halftime against a lesser

G e o r g e t o w n team, Syracuse was in danger

of its second consecutive loss to a mediocre opponent.

Brian Megill knew it — it was like “Hobart all over again” — but he needed to energize his teammates.

“I asked them if they like losing,” Megill said. “And everyone looked right back at me and said, ‘What are you talking about?’”

“We’re still losing,” Megill responded.

Megill’s words struck a chord as the Orange rallied to stave off an upset, 9-8, in front of 2,736 at Multi-Sport Field. Buoyed by a four-goal third quarter, No. 3 SU (10-3, 4-1 Big East) dug out of a halftime hole and held off a late Hoya (5-8, 2-3) run to win its fourth one-goal game in 14 days.

With the sheer number of games it’s played in the past two weeks, Syr-acuse was sluggish out of the gate. All five games during the stretch were decided by one goal, and the strenuous two weeks finally took its

toll against Hobart on Tuesday when the Orange fell to the Statesmen.

For 30 minutes on Saturday, it was more of the same. SU commit-ted too many turnovers, missed too many opportunities and went into halftime trailing by one.

“I think it’s the number of games that we’ve had and one day to pre-pare for the Hoyas, the trip down here,” Syracuse head coach John Desko said. “I think we’re looking forward to having a couple days off.”

Even with Syracuse out of sorts, Scott Loy found himself with a chance to put SU on top. In his first game back from a left leg injury, the Syracuse midfielder fired a shot wide of the net in transition. No one was there to back up his shot. Georgetown took over.

Georgetown struggled, but the Orange was simply unable to capi-talize. SU turned the ball over on its final five possessions of the half and headed into the locker room trailing 5-4.

“You’ve just got to stay com-posed,” Megill said. “You don’t want to get hostile with anybody on the team. You’ve got to remain as one and come together.”

Five minutes into the second

F ive weeks ago, Syracuse faced a language barrier. A new coaching staff meant new

faces, new principles on both sides of the ball, new terminology and new wrinkles in offensive and defensive systems. Players who had mastered the playbook under the old regime faced a new challenge that would last through much of the spring season.

But what started five weeks ago ended on Saturday in the Orange’s Spring Game. The Orange team — the starters — beat the Blue team 27-10, led by the arm of Terrel Hunt and the legs of a running back corps

looking to power Syracuse once again. There was nothing sensational about either team, but there was enough to show that the Orange is heading in the right direction going into the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Despite the changes with the

coaching staff, despite losing a record-breaking quarterback and his go-to wide receiver, Syracuse is in a good spot. What was new five weeks ago has now become normal for the Orange.

“I think the biggest thing is we’ve been working toward the language barriers, the nomenclature, the dif-ferent terms in the offense and the defense,” head coach Scott Shafer said. “We kind of ironed that out after our first four or five practices, and then I started to feel a little bit more comfortable with the kids speaking the same language.”

By Trevor HassASST. COPY EDITOR

Syracuse’s second team didn’t stand a chance.

Carried by Terrel Hunt, Jarrod West and George Morris II, the Orange team dominated the Blue team en route to a 27-10 win at the

Carrier Dome in Syracuse’s Spring Game. Hunt completed 19-of-29 pass-es for 209 yards and two touchdowns, finding West early and often, and watching as Morris sliced up the second team.

“I felt really good because as a unit, we did very well,” Hunt said.

“We were able to move the ball and we didn’t turn the ball over, so it felt really good.”

Saturday proved that at this point in time, pre-Drew Allen, the start-ing quarterback job is Hunt’s to lose. John Kinder and Charley Loeb split

Hunt, 1st-team look sharp in Spring Game

ziniu chen | staff photographerSCOTT SHAFER and the rest of the Syracuse coaching staff have built a team that can be competitive in the ACC. Spring practices and Saturday’s Spring Game have shown SU’s talent on both sides of the ball.

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Syracuse rallies from deficit, scores 4 3rd-quarter goals to pull off narrow win over Georgetown

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C H R I S I S E M A N

don’t do ’em like that

SU in good position to succeed in ACC

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courtesy of chris grivas | the hoyaHENRY SCHOONMAKER cradles by a Georgetown defender in the Orange’s 9-8 road win Saturday. He bagged a goal and an assist.

STAT OF THE DAYThe number of points the Celt-ics scored in the fourth quarter of their first-round loss to the Knicks on Saturday, the low-est they’ve scored in a playoff quarter since 1948.

“It became quite evident to us that there is a substantial difference between Darrelle’s view of his value and ours.”

Jets GM John Idzik on Darrelle Revis

QUOTE OF THE DAY TWEET OF THE DAY@RichCimini Random thought: Never thought I’d see the day when Tim Tebow still is a Jet and Darrelle Revis isn’t. What’s wrong with that picture? #Jets 8

AT A GLANCESyracuse blows out Marquette 18-6 on Senior Day.

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