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thursday January 30, 2014
Lobos’ defense could not stop Utah State by Liam Cary-Eaves sports@dailylobo.com @Liam_CE
Despite a late surge by the New Mexico women’s basketball team, its struggle on defense allowed Utah State to walk out of The Pit with a 75-69 victory Wednesday night. UNM (7-12, 2-6 Mountain West) trailed by as many as 14 points in the second half, which proved to be too large of a deficit to overcome. With the win, USU improved to 9-10, 3-5 MW. “We struggled guarding,” Sanchez said. “69 points should be enough to win a game.” Sanchez said that the Lobos are having difficulties defensively, especially with communication during their five-game losing streak. Point guard Bryce Owens’ five 3-pointers and 17 points were no match for USU senior guard Jennifer Schlott’s 30 point game. “She’s a very smart player and a very good player,” Owens said of Schlott. “She just outplayed us, basically.” UNM was unable to take advantage of Utah State’s foul trouble. Despite three players fouling out of the game for the Aggies, the Lobos only made 18 of the 30 free throw attempts. Utah State only missed four from the charity stripe, going 22-26. One of the individuals to foul out was Stephanie Bairstow who shared very brief moments on the court with fellow Australian, Josie Greenwood. Stephanie and Josie are sisters of UNM teammates Cameron Bairstow and Hugh Greenwood, respectively. The Lobos only trailed by seven
Rachel Toraño-Mark / @carpeline/ Daily Lobo Redshirt senior Deeva Vaughn attempts to regain possession of the ball as the Lobos played against Utah State at The Pit on Wednesday night. UNM lost 69 - 75 to the Aggies. More photos from Wednesday night on Page 3. points in the first half, but dug themselves in a hole the second half and couldn’t stop the Aggies’ offense in the latter part of the game. Sanchez said she was extremely displeased with her squad’s inability to stop the Aggies from scoring. In the second
half, USU shot an astounding 52 percent from the field and only missed one attempt from the free throw line. “It is frustrating because we know how good we are,” Sanchez said. “We are just not a good defensive team right now.” With 2:45 remaining in the
game, the Lobos trailed by 13 points with little hope in sight until guard Brea Mitchell hit three straight treys for UNM, cutting the Aggies lead to 7167. After the teams traded buckets, Schlott turned the ball over with 33 seconds left, but Mitchell
gave the ball right back, which essentially ended the game. Sanchez made clear that she doesn’t blame any individual for a lack of performance. “They (USU) had too many second-chance points,” Sanchez said. “It all comes down to our defensive play.”
‘Fire’ was only Students say it’s ‘Up to Us’ elevator motor by Chloe Henson
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Smoke in Castetter Hall triggered evacuation by Ardee Napolitano news@dailylobo.com @ArdeeTheJourno
After inspecting Castetter Hall on Wednesday morning, police and fire personnel found that the incident was a false alarm. UNM Police Department Operations Lieutenant Trace Peck said the department responded to the incident after getting a call about a possible blaze in the building. “We got a call referencing smoke in the north portion of the building,” he said. “We responded along with the Albuquerque Fire Department. It was just an issue with the engine of one of the elevators located in that area.”
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Peck said one of the fire alarms in the building was set off by smoke coming from an overheating elevator motor. He said no one was harmed in the incident and that the overheating did not do any damage to the building. Still, UNMPD had to play it safe, Peck said. “When a fire alarm goes off in one building, everyone is evacuated out of that building. You never know if it’s a good alarm or a bad alarm, so we treat every alarm the same.” According to an email alert sent out by UNMPD, the situation was stabilized at 9:48 a.m., and all building activity was resumed. Peck said that the Physical Plant Department was working on repairing the elevator.
Some UNM students are hoping to get an edge in a national competition that kicked off last week. According to a press release from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation website, five UNM students will compete in Up to Us, a national competition in which 24 university teams will attempt to “educate and engage their peers on the effects of the nation’s rising debt and motivate action in Washington on fiscal issues.” Victoria Pryor, a sophomore majoring in international management and economics and leader of a UNM team, said she and her team have been working on their campaign for months. “We’ve been working on this since September,” she said. “We had to turn in a preliminary application, and then we had to go through training in California at the Net Impact Conference. And
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then it was just weeks and weeks of planning up until a week ago.” The other four members of UNM’s Up to Us team are Rachel Williams, Austin Madrid, Earl Shank and Taylor Bui. The five students have recently joined forces with Lobothon, an on-campus organization, to try to raise awareness about the event. “We’ve teamed up with LoboTHON to try to raise awareness about the event,” said Madrid, a junior majoring in interdisciplinary film and digital media. According to the website, LoboTHON aims to help “develop awareness and provide support to University of New Mexico Children’s Hospitals and Children’s Miracle Network Hospital.” Kyle Stepp, executive director of LoboTHON, said one of the events his organization planned with the Up to Us team involves gathering about 20 to 30 randomly selected UNM students to present Valentines to children at the hospital.
“This is a great chance for a number of students in the student body to be able to really get to meet the kids they’re raising money for,” he said. If the Up to Us team members win the competition with their campaigning, they will receive $10,000 as part of their prize, which they say they will donate to LoboTHON’s cause. “There was some question about what the $10,000 would go to,” said Williams. “Immediately we decided it wouldn’t be going to us, so it was a matter of where in the community do we put the $10,000. And LoboTHON is one of the largest fundraisers happening right now, so it made sense.” Stepp said none of the money will go to administrative costs for the organization. “All $10,000 is going to the care of the kids at the children’s hospital,” he said. If the UNM team wins the competition, they will be
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