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TODAY
WVU Volleyball will face TCU at 6 p.m. at the Coliseum. Admission is free for students.
FRIDAY
Women’s Soccer will face Baylor at 7 p.m. at Dick Dlesk Stadium. Admission is free for students.
SATURDAY
Sammy Adams will perform with local artist C-Trox at 8 p.m. at Mainstage. General admission tickets cost $20, but other ticket options are available at http://mainstagewv. tunestub.com/. Attendees must be 18+.
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THIS WEEKEND Cover by Colin Tracy. Tent City is back for its third year to celebrate Homecoming week.
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The 75th annual Buckwheat Festival will take place in Kingwood, WV, this weekend starting Thursday and ending Sunday. The festival will feature arts and crafts, livestock, various Buckwheat foods, Irish road bowling and performing artists. Activities begin at 8 a.m. and end at 10 p.m. each day. PHOTO COURTESY OF HTTP://BUCKWHEATFEST.COM
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NEWS
LGBTQ+ Center breeds positivity in community BY TAYLOR AMBROSE CORRESPONDENT
For 40 years, the student organization Spectrum has existed on campus in some form, but there has never been a central place for LGBTQ education and advocacy. The LGBTQ+ Center has come in full force to change that. Last Wednesday, the LGBTQ+ Center opened its doors as a safe, positive environment for West Virginia University students, no matter their identity. It features a computer lab, classroom and lounge, as well as support and advocacy for LGBTQ+ students. “I feel like in general we are finally catching up to the times as a University, being more inclusive and aware,” said Christine Jacobs, a WVU graduate. “It’s amazing that I am visibly seeing this change of more representation and people becoming com-
fortable in their own skin.” The center wants to celebrate the complexity and diversity of students, getting the community to acknowledge that they are not just facing LGBTQ issues, but academic and personal issues as well. “There have always been people in all universities who are supportive of LGBTQ people, but it is just easier if you centralize it so students, faculty and staff know where to go if they need help,” said Cris Mayo, director of the center. There are around half a dozen students who come to the center each day to work on homework, have lunch or just enjoy each other’s company. The center’s secluded location as well as its welcoming atmosphere make it an ideal, serene space. “Here you have your studies, your advocacy, your help with policy and implementation and you
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Cris Mayo hugs T. Anne Hawkins, clinical director at the Carruth Center, at the opening of the LGBTQ+ Center last Wednesday. can just hang out,” Mayo said, reinforcing both aspects of the Center—academic and social. While the Center offers an extensive list of helpful services for LGBTQ students, it is simply a community of celebrated diversity at its core. “Even though we get a sense of community here,
it tends to homogenize certain parts of diversities of our community. We want to have these conRYAN ALEXANDER / THE DAILY ATHENAEUM versations not just with Cris Mayo poses with WVU President E. Gordon Gee at the opening of the LGBTQ+ LGBTQ, but with race, re- Center last Wednesday. ligion, class and even the location where we come may not be queer, but they changing force of services from,” said Jorge Castillo, are also much more than and community for queer program coordinator. “We that.” and straight students on realize when students Located in Hodges Hall, campus come in here they may or the LGBTQ+ Center is a
Last day of voting for college representatives, Homecoming Court BY CONNOR SCHLEGEL CORRESPONDENT
Wednesday marks the second and final day of voting for Homecoming Court and Student Government Association college representatives. College representatives
are new to SGA this year, and each college on campus may have up to two who will have the same voting rights as the SGA board of senators regarding grants and resolutions. “The idea behind the college representatives is for them to hopefully be
the face of their college,” said Student Body President Julie Merow. “You know who your college reps are and you know that’s who you go to when you have issues, whether they’re within your college or an at-large issue.” Merow explained how
some students have felt underrepresented in SGA in the past. This will hopefully no longer be the case, as a college representative should be more in touch with the issues their fellow classmates face. While recent turnouts have been low for home-
coming voting, Elections Chair Adila Fathallah is encouraging students to vote because it gives them a chance to have direct representation in student government.
Locations of voting stations Mountainlair 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Student Recreation Center 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.
4 | TENT CITY
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ow an annual tradition, Tent City found its way back to Morgantown at 8 a.m. Monday morning when students set out for the Mountainlair
Green, some bringing their living rooms with them. Some said they drove as far as Waynesburg, PA in the frenzy to find tents for the occassion, as most stores in the Morgantown area were sold out by Tuesday. The campus campground will continue throughout the week in celebration of Homecoming, with cleanup coming Friday at noon.
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Tyler Strough, a third year student and member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity chills inside of his tent on Tuesday afternoon. The parks and recreation student from Wheeling, WV brought his couch to Tent City for “a comfier place to sleep.” Many students brought couches and other pieces of their homes, including game systems and televisions, among other things. ROB RAGO / THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
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Caitlin Pauley and Meghan Donley, freshmen from North Carolina, enjoy spending their evenings people watching from their lounge chairs in Tent City. After a long first night dealing with an inebriated girl attempting to break into their tent, followed by a visit from UPD, they finally got some rest. Their slumber was cut short due to cold weather, but that did not stop the duo from enjoying a Hatfield’s breakfast only feet away.
Tent City Murmurs
As an annual tradition, Tent City is responsible for bringing together students from all sides of the University. On Tuesday, we sent reporters out to the make-shift town to survey the campers, and this is what they heard...
9:38 p.m. - Guy in a gray sweater and black athletic shorts: “If you miss this, I’m throwing this whole can of Natty at your face!” RYAN ALEXANDER / THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
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Courtney Freeman, a junior strategic communications student from Cleveland, OH, has been coming to Tent City with her friends for the last three years. Always with the intention of meeting new people, Freeman changed one thing this year: bringing her yellow labrador retriever, Sprocket.
9:45 p.m. - Energetic guy in a white graphic shirt and blue athletic shorts reminisces: *chuckling* “The funniest thing was seeing a couple doing some uh..freaky s*** in their tent.”
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9:49 p.m. - Relaxed guy in a blue WVU hoodie: “Some guy caught a football and tripped over a tent and took out, like, half of it. There were some people in it—I thought it was funny.”
“This is my first time doing Tent City. Tent City has been so much fun, I feel like I am back in the dorms again freshman year. There is always things going on and music playing. I am kind of nervous because I have not slept here over night yet. A couple of my friends are sleeping in hammocks outside tonight. Tent City is a great way to build community, and get excited for homecoming,” said sophomore child development student Rachel Ward. RYAN WALTERS / THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
6 | OPINION
OPINION
America’s “Radical” War BY ALEX WEIDMAN CORRESPONDENT
Do you consider America in a “war with radical” Islam? There’s been plenty of discussion about the appropriateness of this claim. It has become customary in politics. Those who refuse to use the phrase generally fear it will be interpreted as a war on Islam in general, and may further alienate an increasingly vulnerable section of our population. Those who do use it find it accurately distinguishes who the enemy is, and see refusals as unnecessary political correctness. But what is “radical Islam”? Former presidential hopeful and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio distinguishes it by saying, “I don’t think we are at war with all Muslims. I think we’re at war with jihadists. We are at war with violent extremism. We are at war with people who use their religion for purposes of power and oppression.” This seems like a fair rationale, but there are still questions whether America truly follows this definition. As Rubio claims, our enemies are those who use or incorporate violence with their religion. But is this completely true? At the very least, it is complicated. Take for example the situation in Syria. America tries to give aid to only moderate
groups in Syria (groups with more secular identities). There have been times when America’s aid isn’t enough to sustain these moderate rebel groups. They find themselves having to join more non-secular, or even jihadist groups also fighting for survival against Syrian President al-Assad. While America certainly doesn’t purposely support jihadist groups, the fact that arms and aid sometimes fall into the hands of those “radical Islamic” groups exemplifies the complex reality of America’s involvement in the Syrian civil war. America’s continued support of Saudi Arabia also qualifies the question of whether we truly make the “radical” distinction at religious violence. We seem restricted still by the reality that sometimes the enemies of more extreme groups are our own as well. This happened in the 1980’s in Afghanistan, when the CIA supported Osama Bin Laden and the mujahideen against the Soviet invasion. Even if we were able to stick by the Rubio’s definition of “radical Islam”, we must look close and understand exactly what that war would look like. A war on religious extremism, even if limited to Islam, would put America at war all over the globe. The Middle East is obviously the first place that war would take us, ISIS being the main combatant. But to
complete this war, America would be dragged to Somalia against Al-Shabaab. According to a Stanford University research project mapping militant organizations, AlShabaab has “conducted attacks in Kenya, Uganda and Djibouti.” We would find ourselves with a growing enemy in the Philippines, as the Islamic State increases its presence in that nation. We’d even find ourselves with enemies in China in the Xinjiang province where, again, the Islamic State has successfully launched attacks and recruitment. Isolationism is not the answer. America’s most notorious experiment with Isolationism brought us into WWII. It is essential that we are hesitant to declare an absolute war on “Radical Islam.” When possible, we should choose more peaceful paths, similar to the Iran Nuclear Deal. When the U.S. is not dealing with a recognized state, and when military action is the only option left, we need a recognizable identity for our declared enemy no matter how complex or hard to understand. If we fall short on providing an appropriate identity, which “radical Islam” is not, the unending war that began in the Middle East following 9/11 could have the language necessary to become a global war.
WEDNESDAY SEPT. 28, 2016
ICYMI:
Clinton v. Trump BY MATT MENDE CORRESPONDENT Did you miss Monday night’s fireworks? Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton finally battled on the debate stage at Hofstra University on Monday night. Let’s review:
Who has the temperament? It was clear Clinton was poking and prodding Trump to get him to lose his cool. He did, several times. Clinton scored a big success when pushing her opponent to release tax records. “Maybe he is not as charitable as he claims to be... Maybe he doesn’t want the American people to know that he has paid nothing in federal taxes. There is something he is hiding,” she said. Trump responded that he does not pay federal taxes, even saying “that makes me smart.” Blaming Clinton According to Trump the United States economy is not healthy, and Hillary Clinton deserves blame. When Hillary joked, “I have a feeling by the end of the evening I’m gonna be blamed for everything that’s ever happened.” Trump responded, “Why not?” Repairing relations Moderator Lester Holt asked about race problems and recent tensions with law enforcement within minority communities. Clinton emphasized community policing while Trump endorsed “stop and frisk”, a police tactic that was deemed unconstitutional for its disproportional use on minorities, something Holt was quick to point out. The second debate will be held on Oct. 9. You won’t want to miss it.
What did students think about the debate?
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“I am a Trump supporter, but I feel like he didn’t really do much to get more voters.” -Ben Flower Sophomore strategic communications student Mt. Airy, MD
“In the end, Cinton was able to get her message out clearer.” -Liam Glass Sophomore journalism student Bloomingdale, NJ
What did you think of the debate? Want to join in on the conversation? Send your thoughts to us on Twitter @DailyAthenaeum
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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk © 2016 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.
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ACROSS 1 Gain experience (from) 6 Leg muscle 10 World Golf Hall of Famer Karrie 14 First host of “The Tonight Show” 15 Like some history 16 Original thought 17 Old-time bandits 20 “The Time Machine” race 21 Goes out 22 First extra inning 23 Dallas Mavericks org. 25 Old Mideast alliance: Abbr. 26 Narc’s quarry 32 Nova Scotia hrs. 35 City SW of St. Augustine 36 Young boys 37 Place for a pedicure 38 Special forces mission 42 Bi- halved 43 Cambodian cash 44 Polar explorer 45 Butter-on-hotgriddle sound 46 Anonymous holiday gift giver 48 Bowl-shaped cookware 49 __ in: surround 50 Delta rival, as it was once known 53 Tosca’s “Vissi d’arte,” e.g. 56 Magic charm 60 Air marshal’s possession 63 “The Mod Squad” role 64 Automation prefix 65 Superman’s makeup? 66 __ code 67 Mess offering 68 Brits’ boob tube DOWN 1 Pathetic, as an excuse 2 Airline to Jerusalem 3 In addition 4 Put the spark back into, as a relationship 5 Salem-to-Portland dir. 6 It may help with a mop 7 Many a Syrian 8 Metallica drummer Ulrich 9 St. with a panhandle 10 Three-lane, vis-à-vis two-lane 11 “I Dream of Jeannie” star 12 Buddy of Kermit
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13 Big party 18 Leader with a .edu address 19 Beehive State 24 Animal symbolizing the 25-Down 25 World power inits. until ’91 26 Magical start 27 Tappable cellphone images 28 “Miles Smiles” trumpeter 29 Poker-faced 30 Come to a point 31 Fred’s dancing sister 32 Chinese or Japanese 33 Hurling or curling 34 Tucker of country 39 Taxing trip 40 Semicircular church section 41 One who might go to bat for you?
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46 Achy 47 January warm spell 48 Modern witch’s religion 50 Home of the NCAA’s Bruins 51 Evening in Quebec 52 Klein of fashion 53 Lotion additive 54 Singer McEntire 55 Star adored by many 57 Autobahn auto 58 “Piano Man” man 59 __ child 61 Branch 62 Approx. repair cost Answers on page 11.
On Sept. 28, 1948, the Freedom Train stopped in Bluefield. The train was proposed by Attorney General Tom C. Clark, who was concerned that Americans were taking ideals, like liberty, for granted in the fallout of World War II.
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8 | CULTURE
CULTURE
WVU Art Museum opens sculpture garden BY MOLLY TITUS CORRESPONDENT
Morgantown is known to students for the beauty of its landscape. The West Virginia University Art Museum has found a way to add to it. Several years in the making, WVU will celebrate the opening of the Joginder Nath Sculpture Garden at 4 p.m. Wednesday. “This truly is an inspirational sculpture garden,” said Museum Director Joyce Ice. “We want our students, faculty, staff and visitors to experience art from the U.S. and around the globe while enjoying the beauty and serenity of this outdoor space.” According to a WVUToday press release, art and design students, landscape architecture students and others collaborated in the effort. The students studied
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The sculpture garden features a stainless steel piece by renowned sculptor and artist Wayne Trapp called “The Spirit of Growth 2015.” the elevation, drainage and other aspects of the area through various senior projects to help envision how the sculpture garden may look. Current artwork was purchased with donated funds. Next month a contemporary Chinese artist, He Zhenhai, will install “Bridge,” a piece commisioned by the College of Creative Arts through a relationship the College holds with the famed ce-
ramic city where Zhenhai teaches and works. Seating is located along a meandering pathway through the garden, and the museum plans to eventually give tours of the exhibit. Soon, five Shona sculptures by Zimbabwe artists are also expected to join the landscape. “The sculpture garden emphasizes nature and art in a space people will find appealing and at-
tractive—a place they will want to spend time,” said Joginder Nath, a donor. “It extends the museum setting to the outdoors for art to be appreciated and enjoyed by many and for students and faculty to learn and grow.” The sculpture garden was named after Nath and his wife, Charlotte, both of whom are retired WVU professors. “Hopefully, people traveling along Patteson Drive to Ruby Memorial Hospital, ballgames and other nearby venues will also appreciate the garden and stop by,” Ice said. The College of Creative Arts welcomes all of the Morgantown community to the opening of the Joginder Nath Sculpture Garden. Among the speakers at the opening will be WVU President E. Gordon Gee and Provost Joyce McConnell.
Preston County Buckwheat Festival to celebrate 75th anniversary BY JEFFREY SCOTT CORRESPONDENT
For pancake enthusiasts and carbohydrate lovers, the Preston County Buckwheat Festival has become a staple of West Virginia culture. In its 75th year, the Festival begins Thursday and will offer a variety of activities to make it about much more
than just pancakes. The Festival began in 1938, after local farmers grew large quantities of buckwheat as animal feed. With more than enough to go around, farmers decided to throw an end of the year party where they could relax, eat some pancakes and have a good time, starting what would eventually become an annual tradition.
“Seeing the happy faces, eating the carnival food, and riding the rides has always been an enjoyable experience for me,” said Brianna Oldaker, 17, of Bridgeport. This will be her fourth year attending the festival. For many residents, the pancakes can’t come off the griddle quick enough, but livestock judging and Irish road bowling are some of
many events to enjoy. “I find myself wishing the fall season would come around sooner whenever I think about the festival,” Oldaker said. “It’s just an all-around amazing experience.” The Festival will run Sept. 29-Oct. 2 in Kingwood, WV. More information can be found at http://buckwheatfest.com.
WEDNESDAY SEPT. 28, 2016
U92 On the Review: Sneaks’ “Gymnastics” By Jackson Montgomery, U92 Media Director Bass guitar and drum machine: some would call this a rhythm section, but for Washington, DC singer-songwriter Eva Moolchan, those two instruments constitute her entire sound. Drawing on the likes of early ‘80’s post-disco acts such as ESG and Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Moolchan strings out tight basslines over monotonous drum loops to create tracks that IMAGE COURTESY OF GROUND CONTROL BOOKING are minimal, yet highly danceable. Perhaps taking a nod from fellow DC punks Minor Threat, Moolchan’s debut album as Sneaks, “Gymnastics,” manages to squeeze in 10 whole songs over the incredibly short course of 14 minutes. As the tracks jump from one spastic bass groove to the next it almost seems like we’re being treated to one big song. Just when it feels like we’re getting locked in, “Gymnastics” dodges homogeny with a carefully arranged tracklist: switching up the guitar tone on “X.T.Y.” on track two, dropping out the drums entirely for the ritual-like “Down in the Woods” midway through and bringing in layers of synth and marimba on the closer “Someone Like That” that sound more akin to the primitive, distorted samples of an old children’s keyboard than anything modern. Moolchan’s lyrics, sticking with the general pattern, are just as sparse and repetitive. In the opening track “Tough Luck” she condenses her issues with gender difference into just eight words: “Boy being: soft rocks. Girl being: tough luck.” Other songs are more poetic. “New Taste” paints the lazy images of day-to-day consumer life in two-syllable chants while “Red” recounts a tiresome conversation with a “kind of lame” person over one of the catchiest riffs on the album. “Gymnastics” sits quite nicely in the Sister Polygon Records catalog, run by similar disciples of minimalist artpunk, the band Priests. If you have an hour to kill, listen to this one four times. I guarantee Moolchan’s gurgling riffs will be stuck in your head for days.
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Professor Profile Hall spoke to Managing Editor Jennifer Gardner about his research and how he hopes to help the species continue to make its comeback. Q. What are you currently focused on in your research of wildlife interaction and conflict? A. I am looking at California Condors, North America’s largest bird. They’re scavenging birds. They’re one of the iconic conservation species in the U.S. and North America, and began to disappear around the time that human beings showed up in North America. Q. What about human contact caused the population decline? A. Since European contact and the advent of this wide-scale hunting with lead-shot. When you go out and shoot a bunch of bison, and you leave those animals there, it becomes a feast for the birds. But if there’s lead shot in those animals, those birds will pick up the lead, which is bad for any animal to injest. Q. Have the California Condors been able to make a comeback? A. The California Condors were down to 22 individuals in the mid-80s. It was a big crisis and the birds were rounded up and bred in captivity. Since about the early-90s they have been reintrouduced in areas in California, Arizona and Utah. There are roughly 430 California Condors now alive, which is a great success story, but the question is, ‘what landscape are they returning to?’ Q. Can breeding in captivity be harmful to a species? A. The short answer is yes, it can be detrimental to a species. One of the things that was so unique and important for the California Condor project was building these hand puppets, that were the heads of an adult Condor, to feed the chicks, and so they got the chicks habituated to taking food from an adult Condor.
Jonathon Hall, Ph. D. Assistant Professor, Geography Q. What is your role in helping the California Condors increase their population? A. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the Southern California region tries to trap as many birds of their flock as they can, to monitor their blood-lead levels. We can get an idea of how much lead these birds have by taking a blood sample. My work is tracking these birds using telemetry units where we can get their location, altitude, all of this information on them every 15 minutes or even every 30 seconds. What is nice is that we can track them remotely. So I take this data, run a bunch of statistical tests, and try to understand the landscape; so I’m building a model of their habitat use. I’m specifically focusing on areas where they are on the ground during the day. Q. Where is the project in terms of feeling as though it has accomplished its goal? A. The California Condor Conservation Project has been a multistage effort. We are beginning to answer a lot of these questions. Dr. Myra Finkelstein, an environmental toxicologist, has evidence that the lead source where a lot of this lead is coming from, is spent ammunition. We’re at the stage now where we are trying to understand if a bird has high lead where might it have been? Q. Has California made any effort to help with the lead issue? A. California has banned the use of lead ammunition for game animals, which won’t take full effect until 2019, I believe. So it takes a while to do it and there is a lot of resistance from hunters. Copper bullets are more expensive than lead bullets, and they shoot differently. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servce in California has been giving out free copper ammunition as a way to kind of get people into it. California is unique in that.
Q&A
Jonathon Hall is currently working with California Condors, a species he said was driven to the brink of extinction by human activity. He travels to California twice a year to work directly with the birds, but he can track them from his computer right here in Morgantown.
10 | SPORTS
WEDNESDAY SEPT. 28, 2016
SPORTS
Mountaineers are top dog in deep Big 12 Conference BY NEEL MADHAVAN SPORTS WRITER
WOMEN’S SOCCER With the non-conference slate behind it, the No. 3 WVU women’s soccer team is set to begin Big 12 Conference play this weekend. The Mountaineers (8-11) are the four-time defending Big 12 regular season champions, and this year is no different, as West Virginia remains the conference favorite after being voted the unanimous No. 1 team in the preseason Big 12 poll. The Mountaineers also dominated the preseason All-Big 12 First Team list, with Kadeisha Buchanan, Ashley Lawrence, Carla Portillo and Michaela Abam being selected, All of which were unanimous
selections, save for Portillo. Since joining the league in 2012, the Mountaineers are 27-1-3 in regular season conference play. In non-conference play, West Virginia faced a schedule of unprecedented difficulty. The Mountaineers faced five ranked teams, four of which ranked in the top-10, going 3-1-1 over that stretch. “Any coach would tell you they’re crazy if they’re not pleased with the wins we have,” said WVU head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown. “You talk to me, I’m never satisfied, so I’m a little bit different in that regard. I think that we’ve done some really good things, especially with the moving parts that we’ve had. We are not in a place where I’d say we’ve peaked, and that’s good, but we are just
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Carla Portillo looks to cross the ball during WVU’s 1-0 double overtime loss to Georgetown. going to keep getting better every day.” This year, the Big 12 looks to be a deeper conference than it has been in recent years. For much of the season, the Mountaineers have been the only Big 12 team to be ranked in both the Top-
DrawerSoccer.com top 25 and National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s Poll. But teams like Oklahoma, Texas Tech and TCU have all cracked the polls at one point or another this season. Currently, Oklahoma sits at No. 23 at 9-2-1 in the Top-
DrawerSoccer.com top 25. While in the NSCAA Coaches Poll, Oklahoma is No. 23, and Texas Tech and Kansas are both receiving votes. Somehow, the Sooners’ RPI ranking is No. 6, just one spot behind the Mountaineers. Every Big 12 team came out of non-conference play with a winning record, except Oklahoma State, which sits at .500. “Everybody’s winning in the Big 12, which is so important,” Izzo-Brown said. “The success of the Big 12 and everything we’re doing out of conference is very important, and I know in our coaches meetings we value our RPI and our strength of schedule.” Texas Tech will be a stiff test for West Virginia. The Red Raiders are the de-
fending Big 12 Tournament champions and upset the Mountaineers 1-0 in the semifinal of last year’s conference tournament. “Iowa State’s having a great year as well,” Izzo-Brown said. “So where Iowa State might have been at the bottom, they’re fierce right now. TCU is playing well, OU’s having a great season—their losses are to Virginia and I don’t even know who else. I think Texas is going to be another opponent that’s going to cause problems. But the parity in the Big 12 has always been something that we know is going to be difficult, especially this year.” The Mountaineers open Big 12 play at home this week against Baylor on Friday, with Oklahoma looming on Sunday.
Libhart receives national acclaim after long journey BY JOEL NORMAN SPORTS WRITER
MEN’S SOCCER Tuesday, Sept. 20, was a special day for WVU men’s soccer player Garrett Libhart. His goal in West Virginia’s 3-0 win over American University earned the No. 2 spot on ESPN’s Top 10 plays of the day. The senior midfielder/defender scored a no-look, backheel goal in the 54th minute to make it 2-0, Mountaineers.
“It was brilliant,” said head coach Marlon LeBlanc. “A cheeky bugger.” The goal was more than just a sensational play; it was Libhart’s first goal as a Mountaineer. “It was good,” Libhart said. “It was a confidence-builder moving forward.” The journey to that moment took nearly four years to accomplish. Libhart first came to Morgantown in the fall of 2012. However, LeBlanc elected to redshirt Libhart that season.
No one enjoys sitting on the bench, that’s a question every player will answer with a definitive “no.” Libhart scored 46 goals in four years at Donegal High School in Marietta, PA. Sitting on the bench wasn’t something that he was used to. The next three years were quiet for Libhart. He played 29 of a possible 57 games with injuries sidelining him more often than not. It became difficult to get used to the rhythm of a season. In that time, Libhart’s only
points were three assists. Two came in 2013 and the other in 2015. Despite that, Libhart has found other ways to make his name known at WVU. The marketing student has made the Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll, the Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll and the Dean’s List in his time at the University. This year on the field, Libhart has played in six of eight games and did not have a point until last Tuesday night. He’s found a way to stay
in the lineup, but finally got the first goal that he so desperately wanted. That goal meant a lot to Libhart, but he’s just happy to be healthy and playing soccer. “I’ve had a lot of injuries in my career here, which has been tough, and just getting back from injury now, it feels good,” Libhart said. “It definitely makes it sweeter that I had to wait that long.” Now that West Virginia has moved up to No. 20 on Soccer America rankings, No. 17 on the NSCAA poll and No.
15 on Top Drawer Soccer, the Mountaineers will need role players like Libhart to continue to contribute. Libhart does not have to score fancy goals every game, but he has to continue to provide an offensive presence for a team that has only scored one goal in four of nine games, and has not scored a goal twice. With seven consecutive shutouts in seven undefeated matches, expectations have risen for a team that went 7-12 last season.
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WEDNESDAY SEPT. 28, 2016
Special teams crucial in matchup with K-State BY CHRIS JACKSON SPORTS EDITOR
FOOTBALL It’s been a rough going for the Mountaineers when facing Bill Snyder and Kansas State, highlighted by special teams play. The Wildcats have two return touchdowns in the past two matchups, featuring Deante Burton’s 97-yard kickoff return for a score in last year’s regular season finale. It put them ahead 24-23 in the fourth quarter, sealing the team’s fourth straight victory over WVU. WVU head coach Dana Holgorsen knows the Mountaineers have their work cut out for them, and has been placing a huge emphasis on special teams play ahead of Saturday’s affair. “They got us last year. They got us two years ago,� Holgorsen said. If you think we’re going to obsess over it, you’re probably right.� Now it’s a different season, but it was nearly the
same tale for the special teams unit last week. It didn’t allow a touchdown, but made a handful of errors that Holgorsen pointed out. Instead, it was mainly on field position as the WVU offense started inside its own 15 a number of times. Luckily, senior quarterback Skyler Howard commanded scoring drives of 86, 88 and 99 yards that became critical in the 35-32 victory. There could be a lot of shifting on the unit in order to alleviate many of the issues and try to get past Kansas State for the first time. “Made a lot of mistakes,� Holgorsen said. “Our field position continues to be a huge issue. Special teams are not carrying their weight right now. That will get addressed. We’ll focus hard on it. If I need to put starters out there, I will.� While the BYU game was a lot about WVU’s starting field position, it will be a lot about containing Kansas State’s field position this week.
The Mountaineers would like to produce more touchbacks—especially against Kansas State— which would consistently limit opponents to begin drives at the 25-yard line. And senior kicker Josh Lambert is back from a three game suspension and could provide a much-needed boost to the kickoff duties. Despite struggling last year, he’s displayed his power before with four field goals of 50-plus yards in 2014. However, Holgorsen wouldn’t specify if Lambert would take over Molina’s spot on the kickoffs. He would like to see a decreased workload for Molina, which could become a determining factor against a team like Kansas State. “By having Josh (Lambert) come back, he’ll be able to create competition and alleviate the fact that Mike is our only guy to be able to handle those duties,â€? Holgorsen said. “It’s good to be able to have two guys handle those loads‌They’ll both see action.â€?
If everything comes together on special teams, WVU could end its losing streak against the Wildcats. But until Saturday, it’s all about focusing on that area of the game. Then West Virginia will possibly find its way past the Wildcats, one of only two teams it has yet to defeat since joining the conference in 2012. “We understand they’ve been a thorn in our side here for the last few years,� Holgorsen said. “Been talking about it going on five years now. Bill Snyder is a Hall of Fame football coach. Their team is always going to be prepared to play.�
WVU vs. KSU Series Record (1-5) 1930: WVU 23 - KSU 7* 1931: KSU 19 - WVU 0* 2012: KSU 55 - WVU 14 2013: KSU 35 - WVU 12 2014: KSU 26 - WVU 20 2015: KSU 24- WVU 23
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