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School spirit members revealed during hockey game, share experience of secrecy By Cherise Thomas Reporter
Two members of the University spirit group SIC SIC were unmasked Saturday during the hockey game’s second intermission. Lady Liberty and Arnold Schwarzenegger [Arnie] were revealed as senior students Chani Fordyce, an Individualized Studies major, and Kyle Jacob, who double majors in Supply Chain Management and Business Analytics and Intelligence. “SIC SIC isn’t like anything else,” Fordyce said. “There’s no way you can do it for the recognition.” Her goal was to instill positivity and radiate the spirit of BG and to give back to the University, she said. Much like Fordyce, Jacob wanted to make a mark of positivity and he wanted to make the group better than it originally was. Jacob’s roommate had no clue that he was a SIC SIC member, he said. “The coolest thing, for me, was that no one knew it was me.” Jacob said. Everything about their lives became a secret, including their friendship and family-like atmosphere between the SIC SIC members. Fordyce enjoyed forging friendships with the other SIC SIC members and considers them her best friends and five of the best people she knows.
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Student uses pet pig for fundraiser, creates hashtag, Facebook group
QUILTS TELLING A STORY
Senior utilizes Stanley to combat depression, anxiety through care, compassion By Natasha Ivery Reporter
ONE OF the quilts made through the Lynch Quilts Project, which explores different perspectives of racial violence.
HOCKEY TEAM SWEEPS WEEKEND The BG hockey team swept Ferris State at the BGSU Ice Arena over the weekend. Winning each game by one goal, the falcons improved their record to 17-6-5. | PAGE 6
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Usually when people think of having a pet, they think of cats and dogs. But for one University student, her best friend just happens to be a pig. Stanley the Pig, to be exact. Amey Hewitt, senior construction management major and Alumni Laureate Scholar, owns a five month old pig named Stanley that she bought from a farm in Rockford, Michigan. They live together in an apartment off campus. “I’ve always wanted a pig, so I got Stanley as an Emotional Service Pet, because I struggle with depression and anxiety,” Hewitt said. “It helps me out a lot.” Last semester, Hewitt had to come up with a fundraiser for her organization, the Alumni Laureate Scholars [ALS]. The program is privately funded by alumni and is very competitive, offering scholars full tuition at the University. “We separated into committees and with me being on social service, I had to come up with a cam-
Columnist Abigail Kruse says that, these days, people look for offensive messages in music. She says that people should try not to read so much into certain songs. | PAGE 4
pus fundraiser. The first two weeks I had Stanley, people freaked out and in 15 minutes 60 people took pictures with him,” Hewitt said. “I joked that I should start charging.” Thus, Selfies with Stanley was born. Students could pay money to take a selfie with Stanley in a Christmas card style, complete with elf ears and Santa hats. “It was huge,” Hewitt said. “We had it Nov. 19 and 21 in the Education building with Christmas decorations. Students were dropping off five and ten and 20 dollar bills, it was crazy.” From college students alone, Hewitt raised $300, and with donations from home the grand total came to $1200. “The amount and process was insane,” Hewitt said. “Since Stanley isn’t allowed in the Union because of food, my roommate is an education major so I called buildings and she helped me out, so we set up in the education building for two hours worth of photos. We made a Facebook group with
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IF YOU WERE A MEMBER OF SIC SIC, WHO WOULD YOU DRESS UP AS? “Olaf.” Emily Asher Junior, Inclusive Early Childhood Ed.
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SURVIVOR Schwartz spoke Thursday night to share his experiences at Aushwitz.
Holocaust survivor speaks about concentration camp By Meg Kraft Reporter
January 2015 marked the seventieth anniversary since the liberation of the largest concentration camp in World War II, Auschwitz. Holocaust survivor Leslie Schwartz spoke at the University on Thursday, discussing the “unbearable” events that occurred in concentration camps Auschwitz and Dachau. Schwartz was born in Hungary in 1930 and became a survivor of the concentration camps as a teenager. He lost his entire family in the Holocaust. He said, “I was only 14. I lost my freedom, family, citizenship, identity and even my name.” Schwartz said, “The worst loss of all was simply being forgotten.” After giving the audience background information on his journey, he showed a documentary that depicted his return to Dachau and the train of death. The train of death was used to transport Jews to Nazi concentration camps. Schwartz and his family were taken from their village in Hungary on April 5, 1945. The last time he saw his family was on the train’s ramp in Auschwitz. Schwartz was deported to various satellite camps and described the “awful” conditions.
He said there were 70-80 people to one wagon with no necessities or medical attention. “We were starving and filthy. We didn’t get anything; no toilet, no water,” he said. Schwartz discussed the experience he had when the train of death stopped in Poing. He said, “Three SS men opened the train and let the prisoners go. I entered a farm yard where a woman gave me milk, bread and fresh butter.” Schwartz said he was grateful to find comfort and freedom until he heard a solider yell “Hands up!” “I couldn’t believe it,” Schwartz said he thought to himself, “I survived the whole war and now I’m going to die.” Schwartz ran from the soldier but was shot in the neck. The bullet exited through his face. The soldier told him to get up or he would shoot him again. Schwartz stood up and walked back to the wagons. Schwartz survived the Holocaust as a teenager and came to the United States in July of 1946. He credits his strength to three Germans that defied the hatred of the era and gave him necessities when he had nothing.
“It’s very easy to hate the people who did this to you … but for me, that was not the case. Three kind Germans spread seeds of hope in my mind and love in my heart.” Schwartz said he often visits Dachau and greets people from around the globe. He said, “I wanted to be seen by every German as a free man.” Schwartz summarized his surviving of the Holocaust in two words: “unimaginable miracle.” Jen Pack, sophomore, was greatly impacted by Schwartz’s speech. “It was definitely touching to hear his personal experience. I teared up when he talked about saying goodbye to his parents and sister. It’s crazy that people were here [in the United States], alive, and let this happen.” Schwartz said he finds comfort in telling his story. “There is no greater happiness and healing than connecting with young people who relate to my story,” he said. Schwartz currently lives in Germany and is co-author of “Surviving the Hell of Auschwitz and Dachau: A Teenage Struggle Toward Freedom from Hatred.” He said his dream is to leave a legacy of healing. Editors Note: This is a re-run from Friday, Feb. 6 edition of The BG News.
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STANLEY THE Pig was the focus of a selfie hashtag used to raise money for student organization.
the selfies and used the hashtag #SelfiesWithStanley.” Some students were particularly excited about taking selfies with a pig. Stephen Long [@stephenwolfman] wrote on Twitter, “Lol just got my picture with a pig.” [@JunieTunesSuave] wrote, “Here piggy piggy piggy! I love me some bacon.” Hewitt and her ALS committee used the proceeds to sponsor four families for Christmas, two families with one child and two families with two children. “We had a dinner for them at the Holiday Inn across from Meijer and three of the families brought two others so we accommodated them as well,” Hewitt said. “It was such a fun project. My parents came up and cooked and we were able to provide all the families with food for three days, gifts and grocery/bill money. It was great to interact with them and talk about their situations.” As for Hewitt, she’s prepping for her last semester at the University. “I’m not doing any major projects right now, but I am doing an internship with a company I’ve been trying to get in with for three years,” Hewitt said. “They’re called Barton-Mallow and I’ll be doing business development, which I have a knack for. They do stadium work, hospitals, schools, etc. So I’ll be the face of the company doing field and office work.” On the other hand, Stanley can be a handful. “It’s like being a mom, but not a cat or dog mom. Right now
he’s in a phase where he’ll wake up at three in the morning and scream till eight,” said Hewitt. Pigs have high intelligence and emotional IQs, so it’s safe to say that Stanley is a human in a piggy body, she said. “Stanley knows when something is wrong,” Hewitt said. “It’s difficult and rewarding taking care of him. When I first got him at the time of Selfies with Stanley, he was three pounds and now he’s 10. The biggest problem is feeding, cause pigs don’t have receptors that tell them to stop eating food, so he’ll eat until he dies if I don’t limit it.” Stanley can eat basically anything, but he’s not supposed to have raw potatoes; tomatoes and citrus fruits give him the runs. Popcorn is welcome and accepted though. “Taking care of Stanley is difficult and great at the same time,” Hewitt said. “I rub him with warm coconut oil cause he has dry skin, and trim his nails, etc. He goes to an exotic pet vet in Toledo and gets taken care of. I love Stanley but it’s a lot.” Hewitt brings Stanley to campus at least once a week. “People get upset if I don’t bring him, so I carry his portable litter box and diaper bag with Stanley things and set him up in the back of my construction classes,” Hewitt said. As for students who struggle with depression or anxiety, Hewitt stresses the importance of support. “It’s important to have someone or something that can get you out of bed each morning,” Hewitt said. “Stanley is mine. You have to take care of yourself and have hope.”
SIC SIC From Page 1 “The fact that no one knows who my best friends are … is extremely, extremely humbling and special.” She said. She recalls that her favorite memories are of the nights she spends time with the other SIC SIC members. “No one gets to know about what we do and it’s very intimate. Very unique to us.” She said. For Jacob, he enjoyed seeing the smiles on children’s faces as they asked him for taffy at sporting events. “Almost every single time we go out, there’s always at least a few little kids that just come screaming to you,” he said. “They just love you and embrace you, and just seeing them smile … is just kind of cool.” SIC SIC is different than Freddie and Frieda because you are keeping your secret for three years as opposed to one year, and that was Fordyce’s biggest challenge. “The secrecy is definitely the only big challenge.” Fordyce said. Jacob agreed with Fordyce. “For three years, so much lying to your friends, so much lying to everyone,” he said. They keep that secrecy not because it is fun, but because they love to show their BG spirit. “It was very difficult to continue to lie to some of our best friends and to the people that we love and care about,” Fordyce said. “But we knew that we were doing it for the right reasons. It wasn’t out of malicious acts or anything like that. It was out of love for the University.”
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I enjoy music, even though I am not choosing to turn my passion for it into a career. Songs get stuck in my head, which is helpful as a member of three choirs on campus. It’s also annoying, because some songs I would be fine not hearing ever again, like the one about the horrors of having no coffee at work, which is from the musical we did my freshman year of high school. My entire family still remembers every word to it and sings it frequently. We’re weird; don’t judge us. I spent time analyzing lyrics and, with some songs out there, you would think I would be offended, but I’m not. Take for example a song I’m learning in one of my choirs. It is a piece by Johannes Brahms called “Neckerein,” which is subtitled “Flirtation” in English and makes me giggle because it sounds like “necking.” It’s a bouncy song that
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quickly got stuck in my head, but I felt guilty about that as soon as I checked out the English translation of the lyrics, which are in German. The song, alternating between men’s and women’s lines, is a conversation between a man and the woman he intends to be his wife. The woman at least claims she wants no part in this. She declares that she’ll turn into a dove and fly away into the woods, to which the man replies he has a pistol and will shoot the dove down. The conversation goes back and forth as she plans to turn into a fish and swim away, then into a rabbit that hops
away. All the while he pursues her and the song ends with the men and women singing together, no resolution in sight. Initially, it seemed a little off-putting. I mean, gosh, the guy’s relentless and surely this is nothing we should be singing. But then I took a step back and considered: is it really offensive? Does it actually sound like a “Robin Thicke song,” as a friend put it? I don’t think so. I think it’s just innocent [albeit strange] banter; simply silly. After all, if she felt all that threatened, she could have quit talking to him, but she eggs him on by continuing the conversation. The same could be said for the holiday classic, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” I remember last year around Christmastime when there was a big stink about the song as a symbol of date rape.
I couldn’t disagree more. It was written in the mid 40s when things were more innocent. For the most part, there didn’t seem to be such a societal inclination to look for the bad and ill-intentioned in flirty, fun songs like that. The raciest part about that song is the fact that the woman was out so late with a man she wasn’t married to, which for the time was quite risqué and not generally done. It’s not a good idea to borrow trouble. Of course there are songs with filthy lyrics and books, movies and video games with disturbing themes. Some things, though, are merely a product of their more innocuous time — good clean fun — and ought to be taken that way.
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Be aware of intersectionality, don’t define people with simplified terms I love helping people. I try to be readily available for my friends, acquaintances and even random classmates to help with school projects or to be a shoulder to cry on if school or life becomes a little too stressful. Take advantage of me. I love it. I’ve been asked to participate in an interview for a dissertation, write poems and be a part of survey research that goes into lengthy papers. Usually, I assume that I am approached by those who need assistance with these projects because of my diverse background, but after an experience I had this past week, I realized that I was constantly being put in a box. In this instance, I was asked to partake in an interview as a person who was from a “different culture” than the interviewer. I am more than happy to share my experiences from my life, so I eagerly agreed.
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I immediately thought I would be quizzed on my religious upbringing. Being raised Mormon, I get a lot of curious questions [we’re kind of like deep-sea creatures; everyone knows we exist, but don’t really know where]. After I asked what part of my life she was interested in that coincided with my religion, she looked at me quizzically: “Wait, you ARE gay, right?” Oh, yeah. I forgot. I also love talking about my sexuality, different sexualities other than my own, inclusivity and other social activism ideals. It’s a humongous part of my life and I agree, it’s important. But it isn’t me. My sexuality is a part of me, but it’s not all that I’m made of.
In a social activism context, you could call this intersectionality. Intersectionality can be defined as, “…the study of intersections between forms or systems of oppression, domination or discrimination.” Most social activists use this term when helping those who don’t experience oppression [or those who don’t experience something called a “double bind” or multiple forms of oppression]. To unpack this a little further — or to maybe put it in slightly simpler terms — most humans walking around on the planet are more complex than they seem. Each person is made up of unique, complex layers; similar to the layers of an onion or the rings on a tree. This is extremely important in learning how to interact with the people around you, because as much as you know someone, each experience will be slightly different.
We all feel, experience, celebrate and view situations, struggles and triumphs in a different light. If one was to be blind of intersectionality or even the idea that each person is more diverse than they intitally seem, it can turn into an ugly situation very quickly. To avoid racist, sexist, homophobic and other ignorant situations, be aware of intersectionality. I don’t walk around with a nametag that says, “Hi, my name is Michele and I’m queer.” If wearing such a nametag was an actual reality, I would want mine to say something like, “Hi, my name is Michele. I’m queer, I’m a writer, I’m a Christian, I’m a social activist and someday I want to grow up to do something I love. Ask me about it.”
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Men’s basketball team remains in first, tops NIU
The BGSU Men’s basketball team completed the sweep of Northern Illinois with a 69-65 road win. With the win, the Falcons remain in first place in the Mid-American Conference East Division and in a four-way tie in the MAC, with eight games to play. A 17-3 run stretching from the end of the first half into the second half helped erase a nine-point NIU lead. From then the Falcons [15-6, 7-3] never trailed, but NIU did bring the lead within one point. Two free throws from Anthony Henderson pushed the Falcons lead to three points. Two Richaun Holmes free throws with two seconds remaining pushed their lead to 69-65 as the Falcons walked away with the win. Holmes and Jehvon Clarke led all Falcons with 18 points. Holmes finished with eight rebounds and four blocks. Spencer Parker, who came off the bench for the first time this season, finished with 16 points and four rebounds. The Falcons started the game slow as the Huskies went up 10-0, but the Falcons continued to chip away before their 17-3 run. The Falcons will return to the Stroh Center Tuesday to host the defending MAC Tournament Champions, Western Michigan.
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The Bowling Green women’s basketball team fell, 66-45, to Buffalo in a MidAmerican Conference game on Saturday night. The Falcons struggled to score in the first half, sporting 21 points on 5-of-19 [26.32 percent] shooting from the field. Buffalo was a polar opposite with 35 points on 17-of-32 [53.13 percent] shooting from the field. BG improved in the second half with 24 points on 35.29 percent shooting, bringing its team total to 30.6 percent [11-of-36] from the field. Rachel Myers finished as the lone double-figure scorer for the Falcons with 12 points with a team-high 33 minutes. The Falcons struggled with size again, too. Losing the rebounding battle 37-25 and the second chance points 17-0. Buffalo also finished with 40 points in the paint compared to just four for BG. Aside from the size disadvantage, the Falcons struggled to take care of the ball. With just eight assists for the game, BG also turned it over 23 times, resulting in 23 points the other way. The Falcons did manage to get comparable numbers for their bench, 12 points to 19 for Buffalo despite the small roster. This included eight points and five rebounds from Kennedy Kirkpatrick. BG is 9-13 overall, 2-9 in the MAC.
BG hockey team finishes weekend with sweep, top Ferris State twice at home By Corey Krupa Reporter
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THE BOWLING Green hockey team scored a combined five goals over the weekend in a 2-game sweep of Ferris State at the BGSU Ice Arena.
The 8th ranked BG hockey team defeated Ferris State 3-2 on Saturday night to sweep the weekend series. With the win, the Falcons improved their overall record to 17-6-5 and 13-4-3 in conference play. “I don’t want to say that Bowling Green hockey is back, but you tell me a better atmosphere than this place,” BG head coach Chris Bergeron said. In Saturday’s game, Ferris State scored first to take a 1-0 lead with 6:42 left in the first period. Minutes later, BG captain Dan DeSalvo scored to tie the game at one. Ben Murphy recorded an assist on the goal. Both teams finished the first period tied at one and with five shots on goal. Beginning the second period playing 4-on-4 hockey,
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Gymnastics team secures first MAC win Nocella registers all-around high score, has third highest score in school history By Terrance Davis Reporter
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GINA LOCIGNO balances with her right foot on the beam in a home meet at Anderson Arena.
The Bowling Green gymnastics team collected its first MidAmerican Conference victory of 2015 on Sunday afternoon by defeating Ball State, 195.500– 193.875, in front of an electric crowd at Anderson Arena. For the second consecutive home meet, BG produced a team score over 195. The Falcons scored a 195.200 in their meet against Ohio St. on Friday [Feb. 6], now ninth-best in the program’s history. With their win over the Cardinals, BG improved its overall record to 4-4 [1-1 MAC]. Ball State remains winless this season, dropping its record to 0-6 [0-2 MAC]. “I was so pleased with the performance,” said head coach Kerrie Turner. “Anytime you come off a great competition and you know you have another one, just a couple days away, you want to make sure that there isn’t a let down in focus. We wanted to make sure that they came in here hungry and
determined, and that they did everything right on their day off to recover to be ready to go. I made it clear to them that they need to do better than they did Friday. And clearly they were able to do that.” The Falcons had their share of problems with sluggish this year, however, this weekend those issues were put to rest. Bowling Green placed first on bars [49.000-47.850], vault [48.775-48.200] and floor [48.950-48.700]. Ball State managed to get a win on beams [49.125-48.775]. BG’s score of 49.000 on the bars is the team’s highest score on any apparatus this season. “It was just one of those moments when they were just on fire,” Turner said. “Coming into the bars, they just had that look of determination in their eyes. They were able to get that huge monkey off their backs. I was really excited to see them finally put it together. The Falcons’ floor score was also a season-high on the apparatus, while their beam score ranks second on the season.
Individually, junior Alyssa Nocella had herself a career day. The junior won the allaround with a 39.350, third alltime in BG gymnastics history. Freshman Laura Mitchell placed first on bars with a career-best 9.850. Sophomore Lauren Feely and senior Amanda Lievendag tied for first on vault with scores of 9.825. On beams, freshman Jordan Rae led the way for the Falcons with a career-high score of 9.825, good enough for a third-place tie. In total, the Falcons set 11 new season-high scores and recorded eight career-best scores. The Falcons will now head back on the road for a pair of road MAC meets across the next two weeks. Bowling Green will take on Northern Illinois and Alaska-Anchorage on Sunday, Feb. 8, at 3 p.m. in DeKalb, Illinois. The following week, BG will travel to Mount Pleasant, Michigan on Feb. 22 to take on Central Michigan. Meet is scheduled to start at 1 p.m.
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Falcons win three of four games in opening tournament, score 32 runs with three home runs By Brandon Shrider Sports Editor
Collecting three wins in its opening weekend, the Bowling Green softball team began this season much different than last. Struggling to score all of last season, beginning 0-4 with a combined seven runs a year ago, the Falcons opened the 2015 season, 3-1 with a combined 32 runs. Not scoring more than 12 runs in a game last season, BG scored 16 runs against Canisius College on Sunday. Opening the game with five walks and three wild pitches, the Falcons had three runs before registering a hit. Chloe Giordano then singled to right field to spark a 10-run first inning. “We came out attacking and our offense really set the tone,” said head coach Shannon Salsburg. BG began the second inning with much of the same. Morgan Evangelista started with a walk, prompting two hits, two fielder’s choices and a throwing error, only to be topped off by a two-out, two-run Trista Monkiekno homerun. This stretched the Falcons’ lead to 16-0.
This was more than enough for BG. Starting pitcher, Braiden Dillow conceded an early run in the bottom of the second, but the two teams remained scoreless over the final 3 innings. The game was called after five innings as BG won, 16-1. “Braiden and Bri [Briana Combs] did a good job of keeping their hitters guessing and the defense made plays behind them. It was a great team win.” Mokienko and Haley Schrock led the Falcons with two hits apiece while Aspen Searle and Marina Cobbs led with three runs batted in [RBI] each. The Falcons also captured wins against Niagara and Robert Morris. Beginning with free passes once again, BG opened the game with two walks and three singles en route to a tworun first inning. The Falcons scored three more in the fifth inning and another four runs in the seventh inning to give them a 9-1 win over Niagara. Cobbs, Mokienko, Evangelista and Molly Holliday each led the team with two hits apiece, while Schrock, Kayla Koch and
Katee Hinkle led with two RBI each. Braiden Dillow led the Falcons in the circle with six innings of one-run ball and six strikeouts. Combs relieved her in the final inning with a clean three-up-threedown inning. The Falcons’s last win of the weekend came in a much closer game, in the final game of the tournament. BG fell behind early after a solo-home run from Olivia Lorusso off of Jamie Kertes in the second inning. Hitless through the first four innings, the Falcons responded in the fifth inning as Searle cleared the bases with a tworun triple giving BG a 2-1 lead. “It wasn’t easy, [but] it was great to see us manufacture runs from behind,” Salsburg said. BG added some insurance in the following inning as Koch connected on her first collegiate homerun with a shot over the right field wall. The Colonials tried to answer back in the seventh inning, belting their second homerun of the game off of Kertes. However, Dillow came to the circle to replace Kertes, retiring the final two batters and giving the Falcons the 3-2
win. Searle, Koch and Holliday had the only three hits for the Falcons, while Searle led with two RBI. It wasn’t all good for the Falcons over the weekend, however. In its second game of the weekend, BG struggled to consistently get outs en route to an 8-4 loss to Bucknell. BG opened the scoring in the first inning with an RBI single from Koch before the Bison scored eight runs over the next two innings. “One inning got away from us in the second game and we simply got into too deep of a hole,” Salsburg said. The Falcons scored three more runs including a homerun from Searle, but the early damage was too much to overcome. Now four games into the season, seven of the nine starters hold a batting average over .300, have accounted for three homeruns and 15 walks drawn. The team also holds a 32-to12 advantage in runs scored as they prepare for its second tournament of the season with five games including one against host school, College of Charleston.
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BG track and field team sets school records Pleger breaks weight throw record, Sinclair breaks 16-year old 400 record By Aaron Parker For Sinclair, she is now the “We took some Reporter fastest runner in the MidAmerican Conference in the exciting steps today, Seniors of the Bowling Green 400. She ran a time of 55.46 women’s track team Brooke seconds, more than a sec- particularly Brittany Pleger and Brittany Sinclair ond faster than her previous and Brooke...” both set new school records best of 56.53 seconds. The
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TWO BOWLING Green track athletes compete against runners from Miami [OH] and Ohio in a meet earlier this season.
during the Akron Invitational on Saturday. For Pleger, this was a milestone Head Coach Lou Snelling was expecting this season. “It’s really not a matter of if she breaks the school record, it’s a matter of when,” Snelling said earlier this week. The record Pleger broke was in the weight throw, one that she set herself last year at 67 feet 10.25 inches. With a mark of 68 feet 2.5 inches, she became the first Falcon in team history to make a throw above 68. With that, she is now ranked 11th in the country.
time took down a record that stood for 16 years set by Tracy Hill in 1999. “We took some exciting steps today, particularly Brittany and Brooke with their school records,” Snelling said. “Hands down, this was our best team performance at this meet. We still have a lot that needs to be accomplished next weekend if we want to set ourselves up for success at the MAC Championships.” The rest of the team continued their strong performances from this season, adding to their number of personal bests from last weekend.
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Staying in the 400, redshirt sophomore Taylor Rambo also set a new personal best with a time of 57.33 seconds to win her division. Junior Alicia Arnold competed in the 200 and also set a new personal best with a time of 24.58 seconds. With that mark, she now ranks second in the MAC for the event. Freshman Cortisha Short ran a 25.32 and junior Kera Lamotte ran a 25.41 in the same event, both personal bests.
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neither team could score. But, with both teams playing at full strength, Pierre-Luc Mercier received a five minute penalty for charging. The Falcons were able to successfully kill off the penalty. BG went back on the penalty kill when Sean Walker was called for a double minor hooking and unsportsmanlike conduct penalty with 9:10 left in the second period. With 6:24 left in the period, Ferris State was called for a hooking penalty. However,
TRACK From Page 7 For the long distance section, redshirt junior Maria Meredith set a season best time of 5 minutes 5.72 seconds in the mile. For the field section, sophomore Raven Porter tied her career best in the high jump event with a
the Bulldogs scored a goal seconds later to take a 2-1 lead. Going into the second intermission, the Falcons trailed the Bulldogs 2-1. Ferris State had 16 shots on goal and the Falcons had 10. “There seemed to be a calm focus,” Bergeron said. “There was no panic. Everybody stuck to the game plan and believed in it and believed in each other.” At the 5:49 mark, Ben Murphy scored off a rebound to tie the game at two. Connor Kucera and Brandon Hawkins recorded assists on the goal. “There was a lot of belief.
mark of 5 feet 5 inches. Senior Krystin Reiser competed in the pentathlon and scored 3,353 points, 119 less than what she scored at the MAC Championships last year. Freshman Sydnee Matthew competed in the event for the first time in her career and scored 3,036 points. Redshirt sophomore Kori
We knew what we were going to do and it showed,” Murphy said. Moments later, PierreLuc Mercier scored to give the Falcons a 3-2 lead. Matt Pohlkamp recorded an assist on the play. With 8:55 left in regulation BG went on the power play following a Ferris State interference penalty. BG was unable to score on the man advantage. With one minute left in the game, Ferris State pulled their goalie to give them a one man advantage. However, the Bulldogs could not score and BG won 3-2.
Reiser threw 142 feet 10 inches in the discus and placed fourth. The mark is nearly 20 feet shy of her personal best that she threw last year and allowed her to compete in the NCAA regionals. The team has one more meet next weekend before they go to the MAC Championships in two weeks.
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