Daily Egyptian 10/24/11

! e second annual Big Muddy Monster Brew Fest drew crowds to Murphysboro’s Riverside Park Saturday with a wide variety of cra" beers.

“It’s a good time for beer right now,” said Matt McCarroll, owner of Windy Hill Hop Farms.

! e event, hosted by Friends of Mur-physboro, featured 12 breweries, more than 100 di# erent beers and was set up to accommodate 1,000 guests, said co-organizer Brandi Straub.

She said the number of breweries tripled since last year’s event, which at-tracted about 500 people. ! is year’s event was assisted by 100 volunteers, Straub said.

Breweries included the only two in southern Illinois, Big Muddy and Von Jakob, a number from Missouri and some from central and northern Illinois.

Guests purchased a tasting cup at the entrance, and from there they had free range of the dozen breweries that o# ered their beer and many more sam-ples from across the country.

! ree of the four unions in contract negotiations have set a strike date for Nov. 3.

Leadership of the Faculty Association, Non-Tenure Track Faculty Association and the Association of Civil Service Employees said the unions will strike if a settlement has not been reached by then.

! e Departmental Representative Council for the FA voted ! ursday 29-1 to strike, and both the Executive Council of the ACSE and the House of Delegates for the NTTFA voted unanimously Friday. ! e Graduate Assistants United union is scheduled to vote today.

Chancellor Rita Cheng said since the bargaining teams continue to meet and discuss alternative language on key outstanding issues, setting a strike date is inappropriate.

“Whether this gets settled by Nov. 3 depends on both teams bargaining in good faith,” she said in an email Sunday.

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Craft beers big hit on banks of Big Muddy

SARAH SCHNEIDERDaily Egyptian

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ELI MILEURDaily Egyptian

Larry Mittendorf, left, and Brent Moore, both of Murphysboro, enjoy a beer and a smoke Saturday during the Big Muddy Monster Brew Fest at Riverside Park in Murphysboro. Moore said while he enjoys beer, he prefers scotch, and he came to the event because

of Mittendorf’s recommendation. Brandi Straub, co-organizer for the event, said they anticipated to double last year’s turnout of 500. Straub also said the breweries in attendance grew from four in 2010 to 12 this year.

ISAAC SMITH | DAILY EGYPTIAN

Three unions set strike date

CAMPUS THE GRIND SPORTS

2nd annual brew fest expands from last year

Fourth union to vote today

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Four campus unions have been working without contracts since June 2010.

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FA sets strike date

NTTFA and ACSE setstrike date

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Unscramble these four Jumbles,one letter to each square,to form four ordinary words.

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Aries – Today is a 9 – Find strength in partnership if the day threatens to stress you out. Go along with a decisive person who agrees with you. Together you can weather any storm.

Taurus – Today is a 9 – You’re entering a time of great activity. Take good care of your health, and get the rest that keeps your motor running. Avoid romantic risks and sharp turns.

Gemini – Today is an 8 – Romance and love are important and available now. Play nicely. Don’t get carried away by sudden emotions. Use them to feed your art. Express them to someone who matters.

Cancer – Today is an 8 – There’s no place like home. Create a peaceful ambiance with tea, soothing music and candlelight. No need for risks or travel today.

Leo – Today is a 7 – You’re getting smarter, and all this study and practice helps. Take good notes for best results. There’s no need for gambling. Postpone an investment (unless it’s in education).

Virgo – Today is a 7 – You may want to play, but now’s as good time as ever to make some money. It could take some planning and budgeting, but you can accomplish what you apply yourself to.

Libra – Today is an 9 – Errors are likely to occur when you’re trying to make everything happen at once. Slow down to get there faster. The moon in your sign today empowers you.

Scorpio – Today is a 6 – Take extra time for rest and reflection. Peace and quiet restores your energies. Let go of any power struggles. They’re not worth the energy. Keep it mellow.

Sagittarius – Today is a 7 – You may be torn between wanting to be public and private. Be adaptable to the circumstances to find balance. Don’t get sidetracked by household issues. Ask someone else for help.

Capricorn – Today is a 7 – You’re in the spotlight, and previous preparation serves you well now. There could be a change in plans, so have a backup, just in case. Find another route.

Aquarius – Today is an 8 – Take time to ponder deep questions. Take an outing or adventure that stimulates philosophical discovery. It doesn’t need to be distant or expensive. Consider what you really want.

Pisces – Today is a 7 – Financial planning opens a new road. Patience helps reveal the best direction. Communication creates solutions. Listen to one who disagrees, and see it their way. Then choose.

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More than 750 handmade glass pumpkins were sold at Southern Glass Works' annual fundraiser the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch.

Southern Glass Works, a Registered Student Organization for student glassblowers, hosted the event Saturday at Carbondale's Town Square Pavilion.

Dylan Bettis, a senior from Downs studying art and design, said the fundraiser helps raise money for the organization's trips. He said the group will take a trip to Chicago next week for the International Expositions of Sculpture Objects and Functional Art, an annual art exhibition. SOFA is one of the largest art shows in the Midwest, Bettis said.

He said Southern Glass Works has been at the university for more than 40 years as of October 2010.

“This is our fifth year doing the pumpkin patch," Bettis said. "We have spent the whole semester so far making these pumpkins."

Jiyong Lee, associate professor in the School of Art and Design, has been the head of the glass blowing program since 2005 and said the event started in 2007.

“I thought we needed a new idea for fundraisers besides the Christmas sale," Lee said. "It has really been successful; we sell out every year and it has become our No. 1 source of proceeds.”

He said the RSO also uses the proceeds from the fundraiser to pay for materials, tools and workshops with visiting artists as well.

Southern Glass Works also takes an annual trip to Corning Incorporated, the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics, Lee said.

Alexander Trommler, a graduate student in art and design from Philadelphia, said the pumpkin patch fundraiser is a great experience because it provides an opportunity to get real working experience.

“We get to work with the community and gain skills, like how to talk to costumers and get to

know the ins and outs of being an artist,” he said.

Laura Cadwell, a junior from Libertyville studying art and design, said she learned a lot this semester just by working on the pumpkins.

“Every Sunday we would go into the studio and work in an assembly-line style. It was cool because a little bit of each of us got to go into each

pumpkin,” she said.Cadwell said she got a lot of

practice and was able to learn some new techniques from her fellow glassblowers by working on the pumpkins

Trommler said SIU is a great school for glassblowing.

“We have one of the strongest and diverse programs in the

nation," he said. ") is allows us to explore other areas of glass besides blowing, such as casting and fusing and several other techniques that not many other schools in the nation do.”

Ashley Zborek can be reached at [email protected]

or 536-3311 ext. 268.

Glass blowers raise money for programASHLEY ZBOREKDaily Egyptian

Dee Agers, of Carbondale, compares two glass pumpkins Saturday during the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch Sale at Carbondale’s Town Square Pavilion. The sale is organized by Southern Glass Works, a Registered Student Organization that supports SIU’s glass blowing program. Alex Trommler, a graduate student in fine arts from

Philadelphia, said the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch Sale is one of two holiday sales the group hosts each year. He said the proceeds make up most of the program’s budget, which pays for visiting artists and supplies. Agers said she has been to the sale several times and loves supporting the arts.

AUSTIN WOOD | DAILY EGYPTIAN

D!"#$ E%$&'"!( T!" G#$%& Monday, October 24, 20114Paranormal Activity 3 sends familiar shivers

In 2009, the low-budget thriller “Paranormal Activity” became the found-footage fright feast for the digital age. ) e * lm, which was made with a mere $15,000, went on to gross more than $194 million worldwide.

A sequel was inevitable.Last year’s “Paranormal

Activity 2” saw a shi+ in character focus, moving from the original picture’s protagonist Katie (Katie Featherston) to her sister Kristi (Sprague Grayden).

“Paranormal Activity 3” is a prequel, sending Kristi back to 1988 to their suburban childhood home with their mother Julie (Lauren Bittner) and her boyfriend Daniel (Brian Boland).

) e * lm plays out like a dark and twisted series of home movies. Innocent interactions such as backyard barbeques, tea parties and lazy Sunday a+ ernoons are morphed into dark and disturbing psychological thrills.

A+ er a failed attempt at an erotic video with Julie, Daniel notices a strange * gure a+ er reviewing the footage. At the request of his friend, he sets cameras up around his home to explore the incident. From here, strange things start happening, with much being attributed to Kristi's imaginary friend Toby.

Daniel takes the series from the clean, digital format, which viewers have become accustomed, to a far more eerie, grainy analog style. The footage is intentionally roughly cut together roughly, with scenes tacked on one after the other. This approach gives "PA3" the closest resemblance to the series' mentor, the 1999 cultural sensation 'The Blair

Witch Project." But unlike its found-footage prototype, the film capitalizes on visual scare tactics instead of cerebral fear.

In traditional sequel sensibility, this * lm attempts to top its predecessors in thrills. ) e third installment instills far more physical fear than the previous * lms, with characters being pushed, thrown and even killed by invisible ghastly * gures. Toby is by far the strongest and most malicious of all the franchise’s otherworldly intrudes. Clearly, he doesn't like to be photographed.

"Paranormal Activity 3" is

legitimately scary, and in a horror * lm there aren't too many other requirements.

) e feature does manage to work in a few laughs and plays with the audience's emotions with tension-building gags. But the * lm doesn't depart from the two previous installments: noises in the dark, possessed sleepwalking and invisible assassins all carry over into the prequel, making it feel like a lot like cinematic le+ overs.

Brendan Smith can be reached at [email protected]

or 536-3311 ext 258.

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! e beers, all cra" , varied widely in style from bitter IPAs to milder wheat beers and included a number of di# erent $ avors such as apple, vanilla and even crème brulee.

Flavor is what turned volunteer Rick Henson, of Percy, onto cra" beer.

“! at’s about all I drink anymore,” he said.

Henson said he became interested in cra" beers about eight years ago when he saw them stocked in liquor stores. He attended last year’s event as a guest, but this year he and his wife volunteered pouring beer for Founder’s brewery.

Cra" beer is growing in popularity, he said, and people are looking for an alternative to the well-known, mass-produced beers.

John Bizzel, of Murphysboro, said he supports cra" beers because it helps smaller businesses and tastes better than the major beers.

“I just don’t like cookie-cutter stu# in general,” he said.

Bizzel said he likes Schla$ y, which was represented at the festival, and admires the company’s pluck to rub

shoulders with St. Louis brewing giant Anheuser Busch.

“Anyone gutsy enough to make a microbrewery in St. Louis deserves my money,” he said.

Bizzel also approved of Von Jakob’s hefeweizen and said if you can make a good hefeweizen, you can make a good beer.

! e hefeweizen was one of several varieties Von Jakob had to o# er at the festival.

! is year was Von Jakob’s % rst time at the festival, and they’ve only been selling beer for about a year, server Frank Wesseln said.

As of now, Von Jakob is selling the beer from its Alto Pass winery but is looking to distribute it to stores soon, he said. A lot of people come into the winery not realizing they can try beer now, too, Wesseln said.

! e cra" beer industry is taking o# in Illinois right now, McCarroll said. He said the explosion in interest actually lagged behind the rest of the country by about % ve years.

McCarroll ran a booth at the festival for his hop farm. He said he sold out of his hops at last year’s festival. McCarroll sells hops, along with home brewing supplies, at his

location south of Murphysboro, he said.

He said the cra" beer industry grew out of home brewing, and he enjoys watching people get their % rst hands-on experience at his booth with the aromatic ingredients, which look like tiny green and $ owery pine cones.

“Most people don’t know what hops are, and you see people grab a handful, crush them and smell them,” McCarroll said.

! e % rst wave of cra" beers grew out of home brewing, and now there’s a second generation of enthusiasts who have turned to home brewing a" er becoming interested in cra" beers, he said.

Despite being one of the event’s organizers, Straub said her interest in cra" beer is pretty new; she’d never drank beer before last year’s event.

She said it’s the avid interest in the beer that sets the Brew Fest apart from similar events such as the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail arts festival.

“! e brew fest is centered on the beer itself — the love of beer,” Straub said.

Eli Mileur can be reached at [email protected]

or 536-3311 ext. 244.

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! e four Illinois Education Association unions have been without contracts since June 2010 when their previous ones ended.

Cheng said the university will take appropriate measures if the unions do strike.

“! e university has a responsibility to our students, and we have plans in place to ensure that students continue their education with minimum disruptions if the unfortunate happens and some faculty and sta#

decide to take job actions,” she said.ACSE President Cyndi Kessler-

Criswell said in a press release sent Friday the civil service union is hopeful they will not have to strike and a suitable agreement can be reached through the bargaining process.

NTTFA President Anita Stoner said negotiations have gone on too long, and a deadline needed to be set in order to reach an agreement.

Dave Johnson, DRC Chair for the Faculty Association, said in a press release sent ! ursday the union’s goal is not to strike but rather to get a

fair settlement that promotes quality education.

“We’ve shown great patience in waiting this long,” the press release stated. “We have o# ered many di# erent proposals in hopes of bridging the gap between the FA and the SIUC administration, and it is now time for the administration to show similar $ exibility in order to allow us to reach an agreement and avert a strike.”

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Assistant coach Tammi Fries is le" -handed and worked with the team to prepare it for the di# erent look a le" y attacker gives. She said the team looked as if it would be able to adjust.

“It’s a di# erent block set up. Le" side blockers, in general, aren’t trained to block as much,” Winkeler said. “We had some breakdowns there.”

! ole recorded her ninth and 10th double-doubles of the year against Creighton and Drake. She had 38 kills and 24 digs during the two games a" er moving from the right side to the le" .

“She’s a very versatile hitter, so she can hit a lot of di# erent (angles),” Brown said.

Freshman middle blocker Sarah James stepped up to % ll the void le" by the injured Emily Less. James had 20 kills and hit for .277 percentage

throughout the weekend.“Everyday at practice, she

just works, learns and improves,” Winkeler said. “She’s fun to watch, she’s fun to coach, and it’s great to see her get the numbers.”

! e Salukis will take a % ve-game losing streak on the road to Evansville (12-14, 2-9 MVC) Friday.

Joe Ragusa may be reached at [email protected]

or 536-3311 ext. 269.

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(Answers tomorrow)SHOVE YOKEL SPLINT WINNERSaturday’s Jumbles:

Answer: When the babies on his flight began to cry,he was afraid it would be — NONSTOP

Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, assuggested by the above cartoon.

Unscramble these four Jumbles,one letter to each square,to form four ordinary words.

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Aries – Today is a 9 – Find strength in partnership if the day threatens to stress you out. Go along with a decisive person who agrees with you. Together you can weather any storm.

Taurus – Today is a 9 – You’re entering a time of great activity. Take good care of your health, and get the rest that keeps your motor running. Avoid romantic risks and sharp turns.

Gemini – Today is an 8 – Romance and love are important and available now. Play nicely. Don’t get carried away by sudden emotions. Use them to feed your art. Express them to someone who matters.

Cancer – Today is an 8 – There’s no place like home. Create a peaceful ambiance with tea, soothing music and candlelight. No need for risks or travel today.

Leo – Today is a 7 – You’re getting smarter, and all this study and practice helps. Take good notes for best results. There’s no need for gambling. Postpone an investment (unless it’s in education).

Virgo – Today is a 7 – You may want to play, but now’s as good time as ever to make some money. It could take some planning and budgeting, but you can accomplish what you apply yourself to.

Libra – Today is an 9 – Errors are likely to occur when you’re trying to make everything happen at once. Slow down to get there faster. The moon in your sign today empowers you.

Scorpio – Today is a 6 – Take extra time for rest and reflection. Peace and quiet restores your energies. Let go of any power struggles. They’re not worth the energy. Keep it mellow.

Sagittarius – Today is a 7 – You may be torn between wanting to be public and private. Be adaptable to the circumstances to find balance. Don’t get sidetracked by household issues. Ask someone else for help.

Capricorn – Today is a 7 – You’re in the spotlight, and previous preparation serves you well now. There could be a change in plans, so have a backup, just in case. Find another route.

Aquarius – Today is an 8 – Take time to ponder deep questions. Take an outing or adventure that stimulates philosophical discovery. It doesn’t need to be distant or expensive. Consider what you really want.

Pisces – Today is a 7 – Financial planning opens a new road. Patience helps reveal the best direction. Communication creates solutions. Listen to one who disagrees, and see it their way. Then choose.

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! e second annual Big Muddy Monster Brew Fest drew crowds to Murphysboro’s Riverside Park Saturday with a wide variety of cra" beers.

“It’s a good time for beer right now,” said Matt McCarroll, owner of Windy Hill Hop Farms.

! e event, hosted by Friends of Mur-physboro, featured 12 breweries, more than 100 di# erent beers and was set up to accommodate 1,000 guests, said co-organizer Brandi Straub.

She said the number of breweries tripled since last year’s event, which at-tracted about 500 people. ! is year’s event was assisted by 100 volunteers, Straub said.

Breweries included the only two in southern Illinois, Big Muddy and Von Jakob, a number from Missouri and some from central and northern Illinois.

Guests purchased a tasting cup at the entrance, and from there they had free range of the dozen breweries that o# ered their beer and many more sam-ples from across the country.

! ree of the four unions in contract negotiations have set a strike date for Nov. 3.

Leadership of the Faculty Association, Non-Tenure Track Faculty Association and the Association of Civil Service Employees said the unions will strike if a settlement has not been reached by then.

! e Departmental Representative Council for the FA voted ! ursday 29-1 to strike, and both the Executive Council of the ACSE and the House of Delegates for the NTTFA voted unanimously Friday. ! e Graduate Assistants United union is scheduled to vote today.

Chancellor Rita Cheng said since the bargaining teams continue to meet and discuss alternative language on key outstanding issues, setting a strike date is inappropriate.

“Whether this gets settled by Nov. 3 depends on both teams bargaining in good faith,” she said in an email Sunday.

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Craft beers big hit on banks of Big Muddy

SARAH SCHNEIDERDaily Egyptian

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ELI MILEURDaily Egyptian

Larry Mittendorf, left, and Brent Moore, both of Murphysboro, enjoy a beer and a smoke Saturday during the Big Muddy Monster Brew Fest at Riverside Park in Murphysboro. Moore said while he enjoys beer, he prefers scotch, and he came to the event because

of Mittendorf’s recommendation. Brandi Straub, co-organizer for the event, said they anticipated to double last year’s turnout of 500. Straub also said the breweries in attendance grew from four in 2010 to 12 this year.

ISAAC SMITH | DAILY EGYPTIAN

Three unions set strike date

CAMPUS THE GRIND SPORTS

2nd annual brew fest expands from last year

Fourth union to vote today

June 30, 2010

January 2011

March 2, 2011

June 6, 2011

March 10, 2011

October 5, 2011

October 20, 2011

October 21, 2011

March 7, 2011

April 28, 2011

September 27, 2011

September 28, 2011

September 30, 2011

March 30, 2011

April 4, 2011 to present

Illinois Education Association union contract negotiations

NTTFA

GAU

ACSE

FA

Four campus unions have been working without contracts since June 2010.

November 3, 2011

October 24, 2011

FA sets strike date

NTTFA and ACSE setstrike date

SABRINA IMUNDO | DAILY EGYPTIAN

! e Salukis went to Cedar Falls, Iowa, to keep their playo" hopes alive but came back with their fourth-straight loss and a share for last place in the conference.

SIU (2-5, 1-4 Missouri Valley Football Conference) lost to No. 2 University of Northern Iowa (6-1, 5-0 MVFC) 17-10 Saturday in what was a defensive battle between both teams. ! e teams went to the locker room tied at hal# ime, but the Salukis continued with their second-half struggles to convert possessions into points on the board.

! e Salukis gave themselves a chance to tie the game late in the fourth quarter when they recovered a fumble on the UNI 28-yard line, but the o" ense was unable to get any yardage and turned the ball back over to the Panthers a# er four consecutive downs.

According to the Saluki Athletics website, coach Dale Lennon said the late turnover was the perfect opportunity in the game, but the team put itself in a tough position a# er junior running back Jewel Hampton was unable to get through the Panthers’ defensive line in the drive’s $ rst two plays.

“You can’t ask for a better scenario,” Lennon said. “! ere was plenty of time on the clock to do what we wanted to do. We went to our go-to guy and wanted to get a manageable second or third down, and we didn’t have the success we wanted.”

! e Salukis forced three fumbles from the Panthers’ o" ense throughout the game, two of which in the fourth

quarter. ! ough the Salukis were able to manufacture three turnovers, they were able to turn them into only three points on the board with a $ eld goal by redshirt freshman Jackson MacLachlan $ ve minutes into the fourth quarter to cut the UNI lead to seven points.

While the Salukis were unable to convert turnovers into touchdowns, they continued to have trouble with their third-down conversions. SIU went three for 13 on third downs, slightly better than its Oct. 15 game against Youngstown State, where the Salukis went three for 16.

Sophomore quarterback Kory Faulkner made his third career start, and Lennon said he did a good job of managing the Salukis’ o" ense despite some of the lackluster numbers, according to the Saluki Athletics website.

He said the game was a good learning experience for Faulkner.

“We still need more production. (Faulkner) can still get better,” Lennon said. “He’s a work in progress, but you can see the improvement.”

Faulkner said it was a con$ dence booster for the team, as the players know they can compete with any team, but also a signi$ cant loss because the team

now sits at the bottom of the conference rankings.

“Coming to work as hard as we do every week and leaving every play out on the $ eld, and then to come up short, it’s hard to go in the locker room and look at all the upperclassmen,” Falukner said.

Faulkner completed 74 percent of his passes as he went 14-19 for 91 yards with one touchdown. His single touchdown pass was to junior tight end MyCole Pruitt, who was the Salukis’ leading receiver for the second consecutive week. Pruitt had 31 yards on $ ve catches, including the lone touchdown reception.

Freshman wide receiver LaSteven McKinney said the team has been its own worst enemy during its four-game losing streak. He said the team needs to tighten up and have better execution, both o" ensively and defensively.

“! ere are a lot of little things we do to ourselves that are holding us back,” McKinney said. “If we $ x those things, I think we’re going to be a really good team.”

Cory Downer may be reached at [email protected]

or 536-3311 ext. 269.

Salukis’ loss drops them to last place in conferenceCORY DOWNERDaily Egyptian

Saluki volleyball fell to seventh place in the Missouri Valley Conference Friday and Saturday as they dropped both games of a weekend set on the road against Creighton and Drake.

SIU (9-11, 3-8 MVC) entered the weekend tied for sixth place with Drake (9-16, 5-6 MVC), but a late rally wasn’t enough as the Bulldogs defeated the Salukis 3-2 Saturday. With a loss against Creighton (13-10, 8-3 MVC) Friday, SIU now sits two games behind Drake for the sixth and $ nal spot in the MVC tournament.

“Either night, it wasn’t like the worse team lost. We played very good volleyball,” head coach Brenda Winkeler said. “We know we’re capable of playing it. It just came down to, in both matches, making untimely errors.”

SIU went down 2-0 against Drake Saturday but battled back with a .357 percentage in a third-set victory.

“Everybody knew it was a big game, so I thought we came out playing a little tight. We weren’t playing that well,” Winkeler said. “We made some minor adjustments, kind of gave them a little con$ dence coming out of the locker room.”

SIU pushed the game to a $ # h set, but Drake won the game on a 5-1 run.

Junior middle blocker Alysia Mayes, who was battling through a sore back, had 15 kills while committing only one error. Her .379 hit percentage is the best in the MVC.

“She played extremely hard. By the end of (Saturday’s)

match, she was holding (her back),” Winkeler said. “Two nights in a row of just physical play, I couldn’t ask anymore of her.”

SIU had a 2-1 set lead against Creighton, but the wheels fell o" in the fourth set.

Junior outside hitter Laura ! ole got a kill o" a set by Rachael Brown to make the score 12-9 Creighton in the fourth set. ! e next Saluki kill was recorded by sophomore Elly Braaten to the score 22-12.

“It was a little bit of everything, but Creighton’s (Megan Bober) is just an outstanding player, and she really took over o" ensively,” Winkeler said. “She did a great job of just tipping all over and making us guess on defense.”

Despite hitting -.031 in the fourth set, Winkeler said it was the $ rst set that ultimately decided the match. Creighton hit .083, but SIU couldn’t do any better with a mark of .077, and Creighton took the set 25-22.

“! at was not a great volleyball set. We win that $ rst set, and things may have been di" erent,” Winkeler said. “! at’s what we need to concentrate on this is week, coming out a little sharper. It seems like we come out like that, out of warm-ups, and that should be something we can control.”

SIU rallied in the $ # h set to make the score 13-12, but Creighton pulled away for the victory.

“We were in it, and then we just made some untimely errors,” Winkeler said. “Our blocking and defense didn’t come through.”

! e le# ies proved to be trouble for SIU as Creighton’s Bober recorded a triple-double Friday with 19 kills, 28 assists and 11 digs. Drake’s Bentley Mancini had a career-high 18 kills against the Salukis.

Volleyball loses two on the road

JOE RAGUSADaily Egyptian

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ULTIMATE SALUKI CHALLENGES STUDENTS FOR A SIXTH YEAR Ryan Ratajczyk, a junior from Du Bois studying radio-television, starts a fire during the final immunity challenge of the sixth Ultimate Saluki Challenge Sunday at the Touch of Nature Center. The Ultimate Saluki Challenge, sponsored by the Recreation Center, is a three-day competition that mirrors the reality television show “Survivor.” Throughout the weekend, contestants were separated into two tribes and competed in various physical, mental and strategic games. Of the 12 contestants, three could choose a prize of an iPad, two tickets to the Missouri Valley Conference basketball championship game or a $500 book scholarship. Ratajczyk, who placed second, chose the scholarship.

LYNNETTE OOSTMEYER | DAILY EGYPTIAN

Losing streak reaches $ ve games

Y ou can’t ask for a better scenario. There was plenty of time on the clock to do what we wanted to do. We went to our

go-to guy and wanted to get a manageable second or third down, and we didn’t have the success we wanted.

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— Dale Lennonhead coach

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