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Volume 82
Issue 7
October 9, 2015
Lambda Chi SMASHES out hunger Fraternity raises equivalent of 800 pounds of food Luis Montoya Staff Writer
Watermelon destruction ensued on the campus green on Oct. 2 for a Watermelon Bash fundraiser hosted by Lambda Chi Alpha. “The purpose of the Watermelon Bash is to raise Photos by Summer Almaguer money by smashing watermelons and donating the profits to Feeding America, a nationwide network of food banks,” Lambda Chi Alpha President Derek Dumbeck said. Last year Lambda Chi raised over 1,000 pounds of food and donated over $450 to the Concho Valley Foodbank, Dumbeck said. At the event this year over 70 watermelons were bashed, eaten and smashed. An estimate of $400 was raised, equivalent to approximately 800 pounds of food for the organizations fighting against hunger. The Watermelon Bash is a public event for both students and the community. It is a friendly competition between teams of five or more individuals. There are several events throughout the day: the watermelon relay, smashing, tossing, carving and eating competition and the most popular event, tug-of-war. “The Watermelon Bash is one the most fun things
Above: Dalton William takes a swing at a watermelon during the watermelon smash competition. Each participant had a chance to smash their watermelon as creatively as possible. Right: Brady Fisher chows down during the eating contest. Fisher won this contest and the smash competition as well. All the winners of the contests got to take home a free watermelon.
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Belles’ soccer defends their turf once again Soccer remains undefeated at home and strives to stay that way Chris Cole Staff Writer
Rambelles soccer secured their undefeated status on their home turf on Oct. 4 as they claimed victory over Eastern New Mexico with a score of 1-0. This win puts the Belles 3-1-0 in the Lone Star Conference and gives them a spark to go as far as they’re willing this season. The Belles took 23 shots at ENM’s goal while the away team shot only once in return. With only one shot on the Belles goalie, the
team demonstrated excellent defensive capabilities. “Ashley is the rock back there for us,” Head Coach Travis McCorkle said. Ashley Exford was named LSC defensive of the week this week. While the difference in shots taken is impressive to the average audience member, the coach was more concerned than elated. “I expect a goal for every ten shots at least, so we’ll have to work on that,” he said. Another aspect McCorkle is focusing on is crossing. “We have to find a way to beat teams when they’re really compact in the middle and how we can get
Small town has its own fun New movie theater and burger joint to come Sydney Wegner Editor Some students come to San Angelo for the university; some are still around because they grew up here and haven’t had the chance to leave the town of 93,200 people. Many people think there is nothing to do in San Angelo and compared to larger cities, they’re right. But, the small rural town does have a few fun places hidden throughout the area to those who search for adventure. Fiddle Strings Bar and Patio, located near campus is a good bar to hang out at if students want to play pool-volleyball or play life-sized beer pong with trash cans and volleyballs. Fiddle also has games such as shuffleboard, washers, cornhole, Connect Four and life-sized Jenga. For the artsy crowd, Vino Dipinte offers painting classes four times a week where people can come and have a glass of wine while they paint. Vino Dipinte is located at 602 Orient St. but sometimes travels to different hotels, other towns such as Christoval, Sonora and other wineries to offer classes
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like they would at the gallery, employee and junior Katherine Johnson said. “It’s a good hobby for college students to do on the weekend or evening to have fun with their friends,” Johnson said. “Drinking wine is optional, it’s a BYOB kind of place and it’s a great place to come and do something productive with your friends.” The Chicken Farm Art Center is another one of the city’s gems and has been a place for artists to live and work. The Art Center hosts annual and monthly events where artists exhibit and sell their works. There are also several bars downtown that appeal to college students such as: The Office, Grinners, Conchos, Dead Horse and many more. Midnight Rodeo, a country-western club, features Texas country artists every week and is a fun atmosphere for college students to unwind after a long week. Midnight Rodeo will host a costume contest on Halloween and the winner will receive five hundred dollars. The outdoorsy people may enjoy Twin Buttes Reservoir. This is for the students who like to fish, hunt, kayak, hike or mud. Natural resource management major Dustin White takes his Jeep Wrangler
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around the outsides,” McCorkle said. “We showed that today. We got around the outside but then the quality of our crossing was not really great, and that’s because it’s not something we’ve worked on in training in the last week or two as it hasn’t been our biggest point of emphasis.” Sierra Anderson, lone scorer in the game and winner of the LSC Preseason Offensive Player of the Year award for 2015, was thrilled with her goal. “Last season and this season we’ve never lost a home game,” Anderson said. “We play really well with big fans and loud cheers.” Midfielder and prominent player in Sunday’s game Haley Mendel said that the Rambelles’ have amazing
Photo by Josh Lopez Twisted Root Burger Co. displays their sign outside, promoting their See ANGELO, page 2 products.
Interested in foreign languages? Check out information on the Foreign Language Singing Club on page 2 Check out the photos on page 3 from Ram Jam Read about Pi Kappa Alpha and Delta Zeta teaming up for an event on page 4 Don’t forget to take a look at the soccer photos on page 6
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ANGELO page 1 to Twin Buttes whenever he gets the chance. Along with his jeep, White also takes his kayak out and fishes on the lake. “Twin Buttes is my favorite because you don’t have to have permission to go out there, it’s all public land.” White said. “It has everything from mud to easy trails to extremely hard rock crawling trails to go on and you hardly ever see the same thing twice.” Twisted Root Burger Co. located at 333 South Chadbourne St. will open on Oct. 26 and will sell beef, turkey or vegan burgers and also offer adult milkshakes. San Angelo will get a
second movie theater, Icon Cinema, located on 2020 N. Bryant Blvd. It will have “all you can eat” popcorn, recliner chairs and Dippin’ Dots ice cream. Icon will open later this month according to their website. The Ram Tram is a free form of transportation available for students on weekends that can take them to several of the places listed above. The bus stops at Centennial Village and Plaza Verde and begins a route through southwest San Angelo, Sherwood Way, downtown and back to ASU. It runs every hour on the half hour.
Ram Tram Schedule :30 Plaza Verde / Concho Hall :34 Centennial Village :37 S. Johnson and Dena :39 S. Johnson and Knickerbocker :42 Midnight Rodeo :49 Sunset Mall :52 Academy / Best Buy :58 Walmart
:01 Cinemark :05 HEB :14 Beauregard and Chadbourne :15 Chadbourne and Concho Ave. :20 Bryant and Avenue N :23 Plaza Verde / Concho Hall
Photos by Josh Lopez Above: Fiddle Strings Bar and Patio customers converse out on the deck. Bottom Left: Customers relax on the Fiddle Strings patio and pool area where they can also play volleyball.
Hours of Operation Friday, 5:30 p.m.–Saturday, 1:30 a.m. Saturday, 11:30 a.m.–Sunday, 1:30 a.m. Closed on the following holidays: New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
New club offers unique way to study language Group promotes cultural interaction Chris Cole Staff Writer ASU has upward of one hundred registered student organizations, everything from bass fishing to anime, from handball to philosophy, and now, something new. The Foreign Language Singing Club is a group that offers a unique cultural experience to any student interested. It started last March and the club practices songs from a variety of languages, focusing on the four taught here on campus: German, Spanish, Russian and French. “I would also highly encourage anyone who is struggling in their language studies to come,” president and founder of the club Hope Long said. “Doing something fun in the language might help them to understand it better and they will have a
chance to work on their pronunciation.” The club is an opportunity for students who are in a foreign language class to interact with other students learning the same language. Students are able to meet in a relaxed, informal setting and refine their linguistic skills. “I would also highly encourage anyone who is struggling in their language studies to come,” Long said. “Doing something fun in the language might help them to understand it better and they will have a chance to work on their pronunciation.” The club practices the four languages taught here on campus but are interested in songs that other students may know, particularly from the Korean community at ASU. “We have several Korean students in the club,” Long said. “I like getting their perspective and feedback on our culture while learning more about theirs.” One event that the FLSC would like to put on is
Christmas caroling during the holidays in all four languages. “I really want to go Christmas caroling in German, French, Spanish and Russian during the holidays,” Long said. “I hope we can get enough people to do that.” Foreign language experience helps but is not necessary to attend or participate in club meetings. Promoting culture interaction and awareness is a big part of the Foreign Language Singing Club. Biology major Rose Wilhoyt said she doesn’t speak any of the languages they focus on fluently, but she is learning pieces of it. “I created the club because I firmly believe that learning songs in another language helps to expand and maintain vocabulary in that language,” Long said. “I still remember songs I learned in French class in high school.”
Correction: In the Oct. 2, 2015 Family Days story on page one, Clint Havins last name was misspelled. Correction: In the Oct. 2, 2015 Chop Busters story on page 3, Trent Shuey’s last name was misspelled.
Japanese pop culture celebrated on campus Anime unites students throughout university Vanessa Meyer Staff Writer If students want to know the kamisamas, the meaning of senpais or just want to learn more about Japanese pop culture, the anime club, Mu Epsilon Kappa Pi-Rho offers the chance to do so. This club is a campus organization that studies Japanese pop-culture through anime and hosts viewing parties. Mu Epsilon Kappa Pi-Rho is a campus organization that welcomes everyone to watch anime at their weekly meetings. “In Mu Epsilon Kappa Pi-Rho we watch English subtitled anime, or English dubbed on request, for about three hours every Friday,” president of the club and sophomore Adrien Martinez said. Martinez said the club also meets occasionally on Saturday for a movie day. “Our club is about learning Japanese culture and we do that through anime since it’s a part of their pop culture,” former president and senior Sam Blaydes said.
Martinez said the organization plans on going to A-Kon, a three day anime convention held annually in Dallas, in June. The convention is an anime-based event that hosts anime fans and offers other items of interest ranging from gaming to independent films. The club costs money if members want to be more involved in deciding what to watch at meetings, receive t-shirts and attend A-Kon. “In order to vote on what we watch and to get an anime club t-shirt we do have a membership fee of $30, or $15 per semester,” Blaydes said. The anime club also hosts at least one movie day per semester where the organization watches 3-4 anime movies that the club has voted on and pizza and refreshments are provided. “We watch a variety of anime and new members need to know that the anime that are selected for that week’s viewing are random, so there is a chance you might not like what is played,” Martinez said. “The reason we do this is to broaden people’s horizons and introduce them to new anime.” The club’s name was changed a little over six years ago from Animeyhem to Mu Epsilon Kappa Pi-Rho to offer more opportunities to members by joining a bigger organization. It now is part of an organization that has over twenty chapters at universities in over five states.
“Our club is open and free for anyone who wants to come watch anime,” Blaydes said. “We have had several non-ASU students including high school students and San Angelo community members join Mu Epsilon Kappa meets Friday from 7 p.m. to our club.” about 10 p.m. in room 110/111 of the UC.
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BASH page 1 you’ll experience as a freshman and an ASU student,” Vice President of Lambda Chi Alpha Sebastian Wilson said. “One of my favorite memories was when an associate member carved a watermelon during the carving competition and wore it all day.” Each event has their specific rules. For the eating competition, the fastest one to eat a piece of watermelon, about one-fourth of a natural size watermelon, wins. In the carving session, whoever carves the most creative and original watermelon wins. For the tossing portion, people throw it to one another across a distance and the point is to not let the watermelon drop or break. The relay organizes groups into a team of five members and the purpose is for each member to run to the opposite side carrying a watermelon without dropping it.
The fastest group who doesn’t drop their watermelon wins. Students were given the opportunity to smash their watermelons using a sledge hammer or however they saw fit for the smashing competition. Tug-of-war is the most enjoyed by the fraternity members and the people who come out to have fun. The purpose is for teams to compete with strength, pulling a rope between each other, with the losing team falling over all the watermelons that have been smashed in the previous events. The fraternity members pay for the bash with their own money with the hopes to surpass last year’s revenues. “We really just do it so people can have a good time,” said Derek Dumbeck. “Hopefully, we’ll have it Photo by Summer Almaguer annually and raise more money for Lambda Chi Alpha members compete in a game of tug-of-war. Kappa Delta Rho’s a good cause.”
team stayed on top with the most combined points from each event.
Family day brings packed tailgate and school spirit
Photos by Summer Almaguer Above: Dancers Luisa Villarruel, Jasmin Coleman and Alisha Richards entertain the crowd. Left: Zach Ayers, sophomore, takes a shot at the trash cans painted as red solo cups. This game is a non-alcoholic version of beer pong. Right: Freshmen Aaron Torres and Xavier Urteaga team up for a game of corn hole, which is like washers.
Friday 10/9 San Antonio Sculptor continues in Carr Education-Fine Arts Building Student art exhibit starting in Porter Henderson Library Tau Kappa Epsilon Fundraiser in the Uc from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Psi Chi T-Shirt sale starting in Academic Building, Room 004 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Volleyball vs. Midwestern State at 7 p.m. keepingabreast starting at ASU Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Saturday 10/10 Greek Life: Pike Spike all day throughout campus Wounded Warrior 5K at Foster Field at 8:30 a.m. Day Mountain Bike trip at 10 a.m. Volleyball vs. Cameron at 2 p.m.
Sunday 10/11 Brisket Cookoff in Pavilion starting at 9 p.m. Make-a-Wish event in Pavilion at 12 p.m. Washer Tournament in Pavilion at 12 p.m. Free student lunch in Pavilon at 1 p.m.
Monday 10/12
King and Queen Nominee Presentation at C.J. Davidson Conference Center at 7 p.m.
Tuesday 10/13 KSA HanGul Festival in Pavilion at 5 p.m. Ram Rememberance in LeGrand Alumni and Visitors Center at 7 p.m.
Wednesday 10/14
Homecoming Fiesta in Rassman Building Room 263 at 6 p.m.
Step Show Prelims in UC C.J. Davidson Center at 7 p.m.
Thursday 10/15
Kickball Tournament on campus green at 5 p.m.
Blue and Gold Party in Pavilion at 8 p.m.
Natalie Stovall, lead singer of Natalie Stovall and the Drive, plays the mandolin for fans at the Family Day Ram Jam on Oct. 3.
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Volleyball event to raise funds for Delta Zeta’s philanthropy Vanessa Meyer Staff Writer
Pi Kappa Alpha and Delta Zeta will team up to host the first Pike Spike event Saturday, Oct. 24 at 10 a.m. at the sand volleyball courts by the Food Service Center. Pike Spike is a bracket style volleyball tournament that will consist of teams of four people. Each team must pay $40 to register and participants will receive a t-shirt. “This event has been put on for years by Pike chapters all over the nation, but this is the first year it has been brought here to the ASU chapter,” Pike President Darian Glenn said. “We see this as an opportunity to create an event that we can do annually together and we also like to team up with organizations so that we can help them raise funds and awareness for their national philanthropies.”
Pike members Glenn, Austin Franco and Matt Kirby all had the idea of bringing Pike Spike to the ASU and planned to make this an annual event. “I want to make this the next big philanthropy event for not only the ASU students, but the San Angelo Community as a whole,” Glenn said. There are about 10 teams signed up already, sophomore Franco said. “This year it will be students only participating on the teams, however, we have plans on making the future Pike Spikes community wide events,” Franco said. Even though Pike and Delta Zeta will both host the event, all of the money raised will go to Zeta’s philanthropy. The Pikes decided Delta Zeta had a very good cause to make money for, and the event is about helping the cause, not personal money raised, so it wasn’t too important which group it went to, Franco said. “Pike Spike will bring together the campus and Greek community while raising money for Zeta’s
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Philanthropy, The Starkey Hearing Foundation,” Franco said. The Starkey Hearing Foundation provides hearing aids to those in need around the globe. Glenn said he believes this event will be a big success. “One day I hope to see this event grow to the point in which it is a tournament that will be played over several days because it is so big,” Glenn said. Though Pike and Delta Zeta have been close for years, they have no event they consistently host together. If students don’t want to play they can still sponsor a team or donate to the cause and receive a free shirt for their donation, Franco said. “I want Pike Spike to not only make an impression on the people playing, but those who are passing by and seeing these Greek organizations raising awareness and money for foundations,” Glenn said. “There are fun ways to do service and we are proving that with this event.”
Chi Alpha rocks out Chi Alpha members from the local region gathered in Cedar Hill, Texas on Oct. 3 to join in fellowship at the Altitude conference.
Photos by Josh Lopez Above: Junior Sara Lara, left, laughs with members of her life group prior to the start of conference Altitude. Right: Alex Bray, senior, represented Chi Alpha Angelo during the worship service.
ASU fights the book ban
Photo by Summer Almaguer Chloe Husted reads aloud at the Banned Books Read Out hosted by Sigma Tau Delta on Sept. 30. The event is held in honor of Banned Books Week.
ROTC soars with High Flyer award Detachment helps community and maintains good attitudes Chris Cole Staff Writer
ASU has been staying above the competition with the slew of awards being won, and this year the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps was no exception when it won the High Flyer award for the fifth time in the past nine years. AFROTC’s Detachment 847 won the High Flyer award by excelling in public service and involvement, taking on a slew of tasks last year from July 2014 to June 2015. “What makes Detachment 847 work is all of us working together,” Public Affairs Officer Cadet Ashley Wellman said. “I was out sick these past couple days, and if I didn’t have some of the 100’s and some of the POC’s helping me out then I wouldn’t have been able to get my job done.” The Holmes Center chooses the winner based on who makes the biggest impact in their community. The winner of the award is rated against every other AFROTC Detachment in the country, and is based on the quantity and quality of university and community activities engaged in. Cadet Corps Commander Jacob Spiller also praised the team’s attitudes and the cadets’ mental perspective on the Detachment. “There’s a great comradery and group effort: there’s cohesion in our unit,” Spiller said. “This makes us operate a little better. We’re all just jiving really well
together.” The cadet activities have been numerous. Last year Detachment 847 was involved in various projects around San Angelo. Wellman recounted that the activities AFROTC are involved in are not only challenging but fun. “We’ve been to an air show, we’ve been on Goodfellow Air Force Base and worked with some of the army people on basic maneuvers and simulated deployment,” Wellman said. Betty Thorpe, who has a background in Military Intelligence and has worked with Detachment 847 for 13 years, said it is a joy to work with team. “This detachment wouldn’t be what it is without the support from our professors, our administrations and our community,” Thorpe said. “All of those combined make us one of the best detachments in the Air Force.” Every cadet has a job with the Detachment. Cadet Jeffrey Steinhauer, a sophomore and business major, is the Drilling Ceremonies Officer. “Detachment 847 is very structured and the structure works extremely well,” Steinhauer said. Freshmen are highly involved in the Detatchment and volunteer opportunities. Spiller said a lot of their success is owed to the new cadets coming in. “Detachment 847 exemplifies both the best traits of ASU and the Air Force,” Thorpe said. “When they graduate, they have a proud tradition to live up to, and high standards to achieve. And they go out and they do it.”
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Millennial questions technology
Sydney Wegner Editor Our generation loves our technology. We all have smart phones, iPads, tablets and are constantly in communication with one another. There are many great things about always being in tune with technology, such as the convenience of it. It is so nice to be able to shoot a text or email to someone throughout the day to let them know that your plans changed or that you’ll be running late. It’s nice that we can call our friends who live hours away or call our parents when we need them. Social media makes it easy to keep up with friends and family and can be great for businesses. Another great thing about technology is search engines. If I don’t know how to do something and no one is around then I automatically turn to the Google and most of the time I get my answer. While there are several positive aspects of technology there are a few negative ones. Have you ever been to a restaurant and there are children playing on their parents’ iPads and iPhones? That drives me crazy. It makes me so sad to see family time disrupted by technology. My 10-year-old brother has several friends with iPhone 6’s and I don’t even have that iPhone upgrade. In my opinion there should not be children walking around with phones that can use Internet because there is no filter nowadays on what children see. I couldn’t even text until I was a freshman in high school and couldn’t have a Facebook until I was a senior
and now there are third and fourth graders sending me friend requests on Instagram. Another thing I dislike about technology today is that when texting, it is hard to tell people’s emotions in their texts. Emojis help but there are people who don’t have iPhones that can’t send emojis or the smiley faces and it’s hard to know if people are being rude or not. A lot of older people don’t understand how “K” can come across as rude in a text to younger people and miscommunication can occur. I also don’t really like the constant access that we have to vulgar things on the Internet. For example, I have a Twitter and sometimes when I get on, pictures come up that I don’t want to see at all. The problem is that I’m following someone who retweeted the photo and I have no option in the matter except to unfollow the person who originally retweeted it. Curse words are also something that I hate. Twitter is full of them. But I can’t bring myself to delete my Twitter because I have that “need to be connected” feeling. It’s sad, really. I love the new Snapchat update. I like to get on Buzzfeed’s snap story. It’s always very entertaining, but that’s usually the only one I look at. The other day I was bored and clicked on another featured story and a picture of a girl’s almost bare butt popped up on the screen and the text read, “Who’s butt is this?” As someone in a relationship this really bothers me. Our minds shouldn’t be directed to thinking about other people’s bodies and that is very hard on girls’ self-esteem. If the media keeps showing us half-naked girls that we are supposed to look like then girls are going to start dressing like that and starving themselves to make their bodies look like the model whose been photoshopped already. I am conflicted because I use technology on a daily basis, but I’m worried about where this world is headed.
What is your favorite place to eat at on campus and why? “Probably Subway, because it’s right after baseball practice for me. It fills me up pretty well. They give you a footlong, and if you want you can get a drink with it.”
Logan Voth Sophomore “I have to say my favorite place to eat on campus is the UC because it has a lot of variety.”
Leighyannha Jones Freshman “My favorite place to eat at is Chick-Fil-A because I love chicken. Chicken is good.”
Anthony Scott Freshman “My favorite place to eat at is at the UC. This is the only place I go to. I just come from the Carr Building to the UC. It’s convenient.”
Alma Gonzalez Junior “Probably has to be here in the UC. There’s many different places to eat, different varieties of food. I like it all, it’s pretty good.”
Coach doesn’t mean dumb
Alana Edgin Managing Editor There is a legendary coach in my life. He doesn’t coach college or the pros. But in my eyes, he is the absolute best and no one is better. This coach is Coach David Edgin, my dad, and he has coached longer than I can remember. He coached both men’s and women’s basketball, power-lifting, track, cross country, volleyball and football
throughout his career. He did one thing that coaches don’t get much credit for, and that is teaching. Let’s get something straight here. A coach does not automatically mean a lazy fat guy who doesn’t care about anything besides sports, and it’s horrifically ignorant to think as such. My dad, along with many other coaches I have known, are amazing teachers and have won awards for their teaching. Yet, I still hear people complaining that they don’t know something because they had a coach instead of a teacher. Guess what? There are bad and good coaches, just like there are always bad and good teachers. I am a proud coach’s and teacher’s daughter. For all the coach and teachers out there, keep fighting the stereotype. If you are a future teacher or coach, help fight this ignorance and be a legend to an athlete, student or kid.
Garrett Welch Freshman
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Rams fall short against Midwestern State Drop to No. 16 in the American football coaches poll Luis Montoya Staff Writer After a competitive game on Oct. 3, the Rams suffered their first loss of the season to a score of 2920. Midwestern outscored the Rams 17-6 in the third quarter, forcing two interceptions, two fumbles and blocked a punt for a touchdown. “It was a tough game,” Head Coach William Wagner said. “We played good but there’s improvement to do. I think the biggest challenge of the game was the adversity, especially the four turnovers we had. We will practice hard for the next set of games and hopefully we’ll get good turnouts.” Quarterback Kyle Washington is on a roll with completing over 300 yards for the third time this football season, completing 300 yards in the last two games as well. “I give my praises to my receivers and offense line,” Washington said. “For the next game against A&M Commerce we plan to practice more fanatically and as long as we can keep it up we can carry it over to this Saturday’s game.” Tyler Middleton, junior, had his first touchdown Saturday night. Middleton rushed 68 yards and
scored on a 5-yard run. “It was great for Middleton to score his first touchdown in the season,” Wagner said. “He helps out the team whether he’s returning kicks or playing running back on offense.” The Rams began the game with two turnovers on the first two drives of the game, allowing Midwestern their first touchdown. The offense was held to punting two of its three drives. Despite a stuttering offense the Rams lead half time with a lead of 7-6 but the tables turned for the next half. “By halftime our main focus was to regroup and refocus,” Wagner said. “Unfortunately, it didn’t turn out that way. We were close but we definitely need progress.” The ASU crowd was energetic from start to end. “The game was intense and the energy on the stands was giving us hope to possibly win,” junior Carolina Ramirez said. “Although we did not win, the Rams did not disappoint in offering us an entertaining game. We’ll get them next time.” Along with the rest of the student body, fans were pumped up and showing school spirit by painting their faces and wearing gold and blue. “At first, people were hesitant to stand up and get loud,” senior Michael Cuellar said. “But by the end Photos by Summer Almaguer almost everyone was on their feet cheering for our Wide receiver Anthony Pierson runs the ball team until the very end. I enjoyed being a part of this past the 20 yard line while dodging opponents. crowd.”
Above: Tyler Middleton, running back, breaks tackles while being pursued by MSU defense. Top Left: A rampage of Rams target the ball carrier from Midwestern State. Bottom Left: The Walling family, accompanied by President Brian J. May Ph.D. and Interim Athletic Director James Reid, was named ASU’s family of the year during halftime. SOCCER page 1 team chemistry on and off the field.
“We literally do everything together,” Mendel said. “Like we go out to eat, and we never get sick of each other.”
Mendel also said one aspect of the team which helps them play so well is that they continually ask for more of one another.
Above: Sierra Anderson, midfielder and forward, maneuvers the ball to the goal in an attempt to score. In 2014, Anderson was ASU’s first All-American Soccer Player. She has also been named LSC Offensive Player of the week for the second week in a row. Last season, her teammate Ashley Exford and herself were LSC No. 1 picks. Left: Defenders attempt to stop Cynthia Andrews, junior midfielder, from sending off a header to her teammates.
“We’re not afraid to challenge our teammates and push each other to get the best performance,” Mendel said. The Belles face Midwestern State on Friday, Oct. 9 followed by Eastern New Mexico again on Friday, Oct. 16. “For us it’s about keeping our momentum and keeping our focus sharp,” McCorkle said. “We can do this.”