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The Council on Planning and Budgeting heard updates on the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union and Textbook Rental Service at its meeting Friday
Eastern’s men’s basketball team won 79-71 against Tennessee Tech, while freshman Mack Smith set the freshman single game record on Saturday
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Tahaun Williams, a freshman applied engineering major, Earl Cribbs,an applied engineering major, David Younglove, a kinesiology major and Carlos Gomez, an undecided major, watch the Super Bowl Sunday night in Thomas Hall.
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Katherine Hoffman, a junior sociology major, and Kassidy Montgomery,a junior nursing major, watch the Super Bowl Sunday afternoon at The Penalty Box Bar and Grill. Both women said they wanted the New England Patriots to win the game.
Charleston looking for bike path recommendations By Analicia Haynes Managing Editor | @Haynes1943 The city of Charleston is currently developing a bike and pedestrian network, and is looking for recommendations on where to create a bike path through campus. This plan is also intended to link the campus to the city, and eventually connect to the Lake Charleston trails and the Lincoln Prairie Trail that runs through Mattoon. Charleston City Planner Steve Pamperin said the bike plan incorporates different elements aside from just creating a safe path
pedestrians and cy"What we’re doing with the project is taking this clists can use. “ There’s a lot of community-wide embrace and linking them so we’re pieces within the b i k e p l a n b e s i d e s kind of in the middle of the chess game…and we’re the physical ‘here’s pulling the pieces together." a bike plan,” PamBrendan Lynch , advocacy director of the Bike and perin said. Hike Pa m p e r i n s a i d there are “5 Es” — engineering, education, encouragement, en- working with the Charleston Police Departforcement and evaluation — which are in- ment to make sure officers understand the corporated in the bike plan to ensure that a rules of the road when it comes to bicycles, quality product is produced in the end. which complies with the enforcement comFor example, he said currently they are ponent.
“We are looking at everything,” Pamperin said. Brendan Lynch, the advocacy director of Bike and Hike, said the bike plan is “small local governance” at its finest. “What we’re trying to do is we’re trying to integrate pieces of the puzzle holistically to best serve pedestrians and cyclists both in terms of transportation and recreation,” Lynch said. “And when you look at the comprehensive bike plan, our infrastructure capital isn’t just in terms of tangibles like the path itself, but there’s also a tremendous amount of social capital as well.” Bike, page 5
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Candidates vow to extend US Rep Gutierrez’s immigration work CHICAGO (AP) — The surprise news that longtime immigrant rights advocate U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez won’t seek re-election after 25 years in office triggered a burst of activity in his Chicago area district, with primary candidates vowing to continue his work. Three Democrats are walking a fine line on the campaign trail, trying to stand out in the race for Illinois’ only open congressional seat while taking pains not to strongly criticize the popular congressman who easily won reelection a dozen times. Gutierrez is a firebrand credited with helping shape the immigration reform movement whose activism and constituent work has rippled beyond Illinois. Questions remain about where a successor in the largely Democratic and Hispanic district new to the national stage will fit, especially as President Donald Trump winds down a program protecting young immigrants from deportation and cracks down on sanctuary cities like Chicago. The Democratic candidates on the March 20 ballot — narrowed from an initial pool of seven — are a county official with name recognition, a police sergeant and a community activist. Financial analyst Mark Lorch of Riverside is running unopposed in the GOP primary.
Foles’ late TD pass leads Eagles to 1st Super Bowl MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Nick Foles threw the go-ahead 5-yard touchdown pass to Zach Ertz with 2:21 to go, and the Philadelphia Eagles won their first Super Bowl by outscoring Tom Brady and the New England Patriots 41-33 on Sunday night. The most prolific playoff game in terms of combined yardage in NFL history was then decided on a defensive play when Brandon Graham stripped Tom Brady and rookie Derek Barnett recovered with 2:09 to play to set up a field goal by Jake Elliott and prevent
another late Super Bowl comeback by the Patriots. The Eagles blew a 12-point lead in the high-scoring matchup before rallying behind their backup quarterback who will go down in Philadelphia lore after throwing for 373 yards and three touchdowns and catching another on a fourth-down trick play to give the Eagles their first championship since 1960.
Amtrak crash in South Carolina leaves 2 dead, over 100 hurt CAYCE, S.C. (AP) — An Amtrak passenger train slammed into a parked freight train in the early-morning darkness Sunday after a thrown switch sent it hurtling down a side track, authorities said. Two Amtrak crew members were killed, and more than 100 people were injured. It was the third deadly wreck involving Amtrak in less than two months. The Silver Star, en route from New York to Miami with nearly 150 people aboard, was going an estimated 59 mph when it struck the empty CSX train around 2:45 a.m., Gov. Henry McMaster said. The crash happened near a switchyard about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Columbia where railcars hauling automobiles are loaded and unloaded. Many of the passengers were asleep when the crash jolted them awake and forced them into the cold. The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board says an Amtrak train that crashed in South Carolina on Sunday killing two people veered into a parked freight train after the tracks were ‘padlocked’ in the wrong direction. (Feb. 4) Robert Sumwalt, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said investigators found a track switch had been set in a position that forced the Amtrak train off the main track and onto the siding. Amtrak President Richard Anderson pointed the finger at CSX, saying the signal system along that stretch is run by the freight railroad but was down at the time of the wreck, forcing CSX dispatchers to route trains
manually. The NTSB said it was working to confirm that. CSX issued a statement expressing condolences but said nothing about the cause of the accident.
Trump era throws wrench into grad students’ hopes for union bargaining NEW YORK (AP) — Graduate teaching assistants at private universities had high hopes 18 months ago when a federal labor board ruled that they had a right to collective bargaining, but after the election of President Donald Trump, some schools are taking another shot at halting the burgeoning unionization movement. Columbia University announced in a university-wide email Tuesday that the school wouldn’t bargain with the
graduate students who voted more than 2 to 1 for union representation, and would instead appeal to a federal court. Yale and Boston College, among others, have also filed legal appeals, rather than begin negotiating with newly unionized students. It may be a sign that administrators are anticipating that the National Labor Relations Board, now being reconstituted with appointees of the strongly pro-business Republican president, will reverse the decision it made in 2016 and declare that graduate students are not employees after all. “It’s not a crazy strategy to stall because it is very likely that this board with a number of appointees from Trump will return to the idea that graduate students are primarily students,” said Harry Katz, a professor of collective bargaining at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Unions have represented teaching and research assistants at public universities for decades, but New York University is the only private university in the U.S. with a collective bargaining agreement with graduate students. Universities have generally argued that even though graduate teaching assistants are paid — their mean annual pay was $35,810 in 2016, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics — treating them like employees would disrupt the mentoring relationship between budding scholars and the professors supervising their
academic pursuits and research. The NLRB’s position on whether students have a right to unionize has shifted. In 2004, during the presidency of George W. Bush, a Republican, the board ruled that graduate student instructors are not employees. The board reversed itself in 2016 under President Barack Obama, a Democrat.
Outside Yemen, stalemated war still rages on ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF SANAA, Yemen (AP) — In the rocky highlands outside of Yemen’s rebelheld capital, it quickly becomes clear how the Arab world’s poorest country remains mired in a stalemated civil war. Soldiers and militiamen loyal to Yemen’s internationally recognized government describe having a tantalizing view on a clear day of Sanaa’s international airport from the moonscape mountains. The price is a steady barrage of incoming fire on the exposed hillside from Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, that makes any further advance treacherous, even with the aid of Saudi-led airstrikes. The nearly three-year civil war, pitting the Saudi-led coalition against the rebels, has killed more than 10,000 people, displaced 2 million and helped spawn a devastating cholera epidemic — and yet the front lines have hardly moved. “In mountainous areas like this it’s difficult. The American Army struggled with that in Afghanistan,” Yemeni Maj. Gen. Nasser Ali al-Daibany told Associated Press reporters who were granted access to the front lines on a tour organized by the Saudi-led coalition. “But for us this won’t slow us down ... because our boys, our fighters, were trained in these mountains, so they are the sons of this area.” The comparison to Afghanistan, where the U.S. war is now 16 years old, feels apt. Yemen has also seen decades of conflict, first with the 1960s civil war that ended Yemen’s monarchy. Fighting between Marxist South Yemen and the north followed. Yemen unified in 1990, but resentment persisted for 22 years of kleptocratic rule.
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Textbook rental, Union still feeling effects of impasse By Brooke Schwartz Administration Reporter | @DEN_News Reports from both the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union and the Textbook Rental Service highlighted the cutbacks made by both places over the past few years because of the budget impasse at the Council on University Planning and Budgeting’s meeting on Friday. Mitch Coe, the bookstore manager who presented the budgetary findings of the Textbook Rental Service, said the budget impasse has caused textbooks to be renewed less quickly and has led to a shortage of textbooks for some students. More faculty members are asking for online supplemental materials, which ends up being more expensive than physical textbooks, he added.
“That’s probably going to be our biggest issue, is how are we going to pay for those,” Coe said. Lynette Drake, the interim vice president of student affairs, said textbooks can be used year after year, while online materials need to be repurchased every year. “That’s the cost issue,” Drake said. Paul McCann, the interim vice president for business affairs, said areas on campus such as the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union are starting to see the result of the cost cutting that has happened across campus over the past couple of years. “It’s not necessarily a good thing when you try to cut costs, especially some of those fixed costs (within the Union’s budget), some of them (which were)
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Bookstore manager Mitch Coe presented the Textbook Rental Service’s budget to the Council on University Planning and Budgeting’s meeting on Friday.
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costs,” McCann said. “I think ever ybody can say this across campus; we’re starting to feel some of those effects as we’ve gone on through the budget impasse and later, to where it’s getting harder and harder to maintain the campus.” Cathy Engelkes, the deputy director of the Union, said cutbacks at the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union have included reducing staffing, overtime, supply purchases, building hours and advertising. Reports from both Eastern President David Glassman and Provost Jay Gatrell said Eastern is on target for spending through Dec. 30. Gatrell said he is “confident that (Eastern) will stay within budget” this year. Also in his report, Gatrell said Eastern is in the process of hir-
ing 14 to 16 new faculty members. Interviews for these positions are now in their final stages. The Illinois General Assembly is back in session with discussions about higher education budgets continuing into the new year. Glassman said higher education continues to be a priority for many lawmakers and senators, and he believes Gov. Bruce Rauner will continue the discussion about higher education budgets. Members of the General Assembly have been coming to Eastern for more information, such as data and statistics, on the university. “Higher education is absolutely on the minds of our legislators and governor,” Glassman said. Brooke Schwartz can be reach at 581-2812 or at bsschwartz@eiu. edu.
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College brings out the best in people People truly do not realize how much college changes them. I never thought I would ever go away to school and I honestly thought if I did, that I would not have a good experience. I was also terrified of losing my friends. I am here to say that while I have lost some, others are still near and dear to my heart. Going away to school was, of course, nerve-wracking at first. I did not know what to expect at all, and I knew no one in Charleston. I soon made friends very quickly and I changed into a whole new person. Now, I have a whole new outlook on life. The first weekend I returned back home, I was ready to go back to Eastern that night. I realized how small-minded people were back home and I was able to see through people. One thing I have noticed about college changing me is that I have become much more independent. I rarely rely on anyone any more to do anything for me. I have
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learned to take care of myself and be an adult. I also realize that people here at college do not judge like others do back home. They are supportive and welcoming of everyone here, and you can fit in with anyone. When I return home to visit family and friends, I am reminded of how different people are. They are very cold, judgmental and downright rude. It makes me want to come back to school because I can be myself
here and I do not have to put up with other people criticizing me for being who I am and for living my life the way I want to. I want people to realize that although college can be terrifying at first, especially if you know no one there in the beginning, you will very quickly make friends and it will become home here. I consider Eastern to be more home to me than I do my own hometown. That may sound bad to say, but I just feel much more comfortable here. College is not for everyone, but I can assure you that you do not have to reconsider it just because of the fear of not knowing anyone. You will eventually fit in, everything will be OK and you will soon realize faster than anything else that there is a whole other world out there besides the small hometowns we come from. Andrew Paisley is a junior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or at abpaisley@eiu.edu.
Balance is important in everyday life Recently while having lunch with my friend Clinton, I told him my many ideas of change I decided I needed to make in my life to help myself grow as a person. My many decisions included trying to “go with the flow” more instead of being an obsessive planner, being more social and making it a point to listen to others more during conversation. Going with the flow and not making plans for every single action of mine is honestly uncomfortable for me, but I have been enjoying the spontaneity for the most part. I used to be someone who had every single thing I had to do that day written down and stuck to it. Some would call it discipline, but discipline should not stress you out like that form of planning does. Being more spontaneous has made it more enjoyable for me to do random things with my friends without being worried about having prior obligations. I think in a way this has negatively affected my academics because I do not have a routine or a schedule of when I study or do homework. Balance, as we all know, is something everybody struggles with the most, and that is my current struggle. I need to find balance with my mix of spontaneity and planning.
Liz Stephens I also made a goal to spend more time with others and attempt to break out of my introverted shell. I am someone who thoroughly enjoys structure and being alone. Being comfortable with being alone is healthy up to a point – until you realize you are just isolating yourself. I realized I was borderline isolating myself because I am so comfortable with being alone. The last personal goal that I recently made was to listen more intently to others instead of being the one that does all the talking. Nothing is more flattering to people than being genuinely listened to, and there is no better way to show you genuinely care for someone than to be a listening ear.
Another aspect that comes along with being a listening ear is asking them how they are and showing interest in what is going on in their life. I remember in a past relationship, my ex never asked what was going on in my life, and if I wanted him to know, I had to tell him. I think norms for this should change because we as a society are very selfabsorbed. Overall, I think all of these habits will be beneficial to not only me but also to those I am friends with. A lot of students could benefit from finding a balance similar to the one that I am trying to find in my life. It is easy to be “too much” of one way, such as being an obsessive planner, but it is also easy to be too spontaneous and end up procrastinating on everything – which is what I am catching myself beginning to do. I hope over time my procrastination will work itself out and I will find more balance between the two extremes. Elizabeth Stephens is a junior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or ejste phens2@eiu.edu
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Darwin days to talk past flu epidemic Staff Report | @DEN_News This year’s Dar win Day Program will focus on the frontiers of medicine and evolutionary medicine. It will look at the hundredth anniversary of the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed somewhere from 50 to 100 million people. The program will feature two speakers and a film, “Influenza 1918/American/PBS.” The first speaker, Michael Ost e r h o l m , re c e n t l y p u b l i s h e d a
book called “Deadliest of En emies: Our War Against Killer Germs.” T h e o t h e r s p e a k e r, C h r i s t opher Brooke, will address the evolutionary view and control of the influenza virus. The programs are set for 7 p.m. in the Lecture Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center on Sunday, Feb. 11, through Tuesday, Feb. 13. All events are free and open to the public.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE1 Lynch said there are “shareholders” who helped make the project possible, including the Charleston Tourism Department, the Charleston Chamber of Commerce, the local bicycle community, the local hiking community and Eastern’s art department. “ What we’re doing with the project is taking this communitywide embrace and linking them so we’re kind of in the middle of the chess game…and we’re pulling the pieces together,” Lynch said. Lynch said since the beginning, the project has been about quality, as well as a way to produce some-
THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS | NEWS thing to be proud of and bring people from all over to Charleston. As far as Eastern goes, Lynch said organizers of the bike path want to showcase the university, which is why they are looking for suggestions on where to incorporate a path on campus. “We recognize that Eastern is a crown jewel of the city… we want to show off a university that we all deeply believe in and are deeply committed to,” Lynch said. Pamperin and Lynch said they are paying attention to the different details and nuances that are needed along the trails, such as bike racks, bike parking areas, bike maintenance stations and water stations.
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They are still looking for feedback on where these areas should be located. Lynch said they are asking for everyone to reach out and voice their opinions because they want as many ideas on the table as possible. Organizers are also asking people to recommend different events, landmarks or cultural ideas that they could potentially incorporate into the project. Pa m p e r i n s a i d t h e y h o p e t o have ideas finalized by the end of the semester, but are still working on the plan in general and there is no set finish date. Analicia Haynes can be reached at 581-2812 or achaynes@eiu.edu.
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Stagnant offense hands Eastern marginal defeat The Eastern women’s basketball team led Tennessee Tech for almost all of the game Saturday, yet, in a span of about 15 seconds, the Golden Eagles seized their first victory at Lantz Arena in 7 years. While it may seem as though the game came down to one possession, the Panthers became much more complacent offensively in the second half, putting the team in a dubious situation in the waning moments. With 19 seconds left in the game and the Panthers up by one, Tennessee Tech freshman Jordan Brock stole the ball on an inbounds play, trekked the length of the court and finished with a layup over sophomore Danielle Berry at the other end. Had the Panthers inbounded the ball, the Eagles would have been forced to foul, with so little time remaining on the shot clock. Eastern held a nine-point lead in the second quarter. However, instead of pulling away, the Golden Eagles took full command over the tempo, forcing Eastern into a slew of empty possessions. “We started playing a little bit not to lose, and you just don’t play well when you do that,” Eastern head coach Matt Bollant said. As Tennessee Tech double-teamed Eastern down the stretch, the Panthers panicked, prompting the Eagles to go on a 10-0 run in the fourth. Through three quarters, the Panthers exposed a tenuous Golden Eagles team, as Eastern forced its opponent into a total of 15 turnovers.
Tom O'Connor “I thought the press helped them,” Bollant said. “We did not turn it over in the press, but we got a little tentative after we beat it and that hurt us a little bit.” Minor missteps proved to be all the more pivotal against a team of comparable talent; both teams entered the game with the same records against conference opponents. In totality, the Panthers went for a combined 3-7 or 42.9 percent from the free-throw line which, given the final score, proved to be nothing less than decisive. Eastern has ironically accumulated a higher free-throw percentage on the road (65.4 percent) than at home (62.2 percent). The Panthers outscored the Eagles in the first half, but struggled to replicate their stellar shooting performance in the latter stages, particularly in the fourth quarter, when the Panthers went 4-of-13 from the field and 1-of-5 on threes.
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Sophomore Danielle Berry looks to throw a pass out to the top of the arc in Eastern’s 60-57 loss to Tennessee Tech Saturday in Lantz Arena. The loss dropped Eastern to 1-11 on the year.
The loss exposed the Panthers’ inconsistencies on the offensive side of the ball, evident in Eastern’s inability to take Tennessee Tech out of the game when it had the chance. The Panthers, currently last in the OVC
standings, have little margin for error these last six games of the season, especially with Eastern three games back of the final playoff slot. Tom O’Connor can be reached at 581-2812 or troconnor@eiu.edu.
Men's tennis team loses weekend matches By Vince Lovergine Men’s Tennis Reporter| @DEN_Sports Coming into the spring schedule, Eastern men’s tennis player Freddie O’Brien lost his first match against Indiana. But O’Brien continued to roll against Wright State and Dayton over the weekend. Even though the Panthers lost to Wright State 6-1 and Dayton 4-0, O’Brien has now won five straight matches in singles play. O’Brien won his fourth-straight match for the Panthers playing at No. 1 singles as he beat Michal Kianicka in three sets. O’Brien won 6-1, 3-6 and 6-0. The sophomore was named the OVC Male Tennis Player of the Week on Wednesday. The Panthers lost the doubles point, dropping the No. 1 and No. 3 doubles match. Eastern’s No. 2 doubles team of Logan
Charbonneau and Jared Woodson held a 4-3 advantage in their match when the Raiders clinched the doubles point leaving that match unfinished. Freshman Charbonneau fell to Fernando Nardelli at No. 2 singles by a score of 6-3, 6-0. Woodson lost at No. 6 singles for the Panthers to Carlos Estrada-Sanchez by scores of 7-5, 6-3. In singles play against Wright State, Nardelli defeated Charbonneau 6-3, 6-0. Pun topped Grant Reiman 6-2, 6-1. Ueltzhoeffer def. Trent Reiman 6-0, 6-1. De La Villa defeated Kingsmith 6-4, 7-6. EstradaSanchez def. Jared Woodson 7-5, 6-3. After the match on Saturday against Wright State, Eastern fell to 1-4 on the year, while Wright State improved to 2-1. As for action against Dayton on Sunday, Dayton picked up a 4-0 win over Eastern
finishing its two match weekend in Ohio. The Flyers won the doubles point with wins at No. 2 and No. 3 doubles. Eastern’s No. 1 doubles team of O’Brien and Trent had their match unfinished after Dayton won the point before. In singles action, Dayton won all three points to secure the victory beating the Panthers in straight sets at No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6 singles. Eastern’s top three singles players had their matches left unfinished. Charbonneau was tied at 3-3 in the second set with Carsten Fisher at No. 2 singles. Grant had a 2-1 lead in the second set of his match at No. 3 singles. Fisher and Berry the doubles team for Dayton defeated O’Brien and Trent 5-1. Jener and Benjamin topped the team of Woodson and Charbonneau 6-1. Harper
and Jayaram defeated Grant and Kingsmith 6-1. In singles play for Eastern, O’Brien and Dayton’s Zach Berry went unfinished 6-7, 0-1. Charbonneau and Carsten Fisher also went unfinished 3-6, 3-3. Another match went unfinished, as Grant and Steven Karl at 5-7, 2-1. Dayton’s Jener defeated Kingsmith 6-3, 6-3. Harper won his match against Woodson 6-0, 6-1 and Jayman Jhattu defeated Davis 6-0, 7-5. Eastern fell to 1-5 after losing its second match of the weekend. The Panthers now waits until Friday for their next match on the road against Saint Louis. Vince Lovergine can be reached at 581-2812 or vplovergine@eiu.edu.
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Smith drops 31, helps Panthers win By Sean Hastings Sports Editor| @DEN_Sports Freshman Mack Smith is not playing like a typical freshman for a Division-I basketball team. He is playing with raw confidence that is relevant every time he pulls up for a three-pointer, drives to the hoop or comes bolting down from the top of the arc to grab a rebound in the paint. Eastern led 44-43 with 12:22 left in the game Saturday against Tennessee Tech, until Smith took a pass from walk-on redshirt sophomore Shawn Wilson and drilled a threepointer. Fast for ward 23 seconds and Smith connected again. A fired-up Smith looked to an equally-as-firedup Lantz Arena student section with his tongue out and a big smile on his face as he gave Eastern a 50-43 lead, forcing Tennessee Tech to call a timeout. His back-to-back threes propelled the Eastern men’s basketball team to a 79-71 win to snap a four-game skid. He also set the freshman single game scoring record with 31 points. “I’m glad the coach (Jay Spoonhour) can trust me,” Smith said. “As a freshman coming out of high school, I’m playing with the big boys. He threw me in the fire with the dogs and I just have to go out there and eat.” Smith and senior Montell Goodwin are handling most of the scoring for Eastern. That is just how things have to be with the Panthers having three guards out with injuries. Those two “brothers” scored 54 out of the Panthers’ 79 points Saturday, but Eastern turned to a rotation that three months ago would have been late-game subs. But on Saturday, top to bottom, those players stepped up. Wilson played 27 minutes, junior Lucas Jones played 28 and junior Aboubacar Diallo played 26.
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Freshman Mack Smith looks to make a play at the top of the arc in the Panthers’ 79-71 win over Tennessee Tech Saturday in Lantz Arena. Smith set the Eastern freshman record for points in a game with 31.
Wilson in particular impressed Spoonhour. Spoonhour said Wednesday that if Wilson got in the game, he would be ready, but they were not going to expect him to “save the day.” But Spoonhour said, aside from Smith’s 31-point performance, Eastern does not win without the former team manager Wilson stepping up. “Shawn is a good ball handler and he defends. He’s quick,” Spoonhour said. “He got through screens, he’s going to make mistakes, because he hasn’t played in four years. He picked the exact right times to go try and do something.” Even after the high praise, Spoon-
hour said he does not want Wilson to get too proud of himself because there are seven games left, and he is going to have to do that again. Wilson finished with six assists, as well as a few flashy cuts and crossovers through the lane for layups at the end of the shot clock. He also found junior Lucas Jones on the baseline for a short jumper after a cut through the lane. “Those are big plays,” Spoonhour said. “We needed the guy (Wilson).” Smith and Goodwin have the most responsibilities right now for the Panthers. Goodwin has to bring the ball up the court, he has to be a scorer
and he has to try and make plays for other guys as well. “We know every game we feel like we have to be more responsible and more accountable of making plays and making big shots and tough shots,” Smith said. “But we always have faith in our guys coming in to make plays and stay focused just like (Saturday).” Saturday was the first time over the four-game skid that Eastern’s second half showed consistent play and lots of scoring. Smith attributed the strong performance to simply having more chemistry.
“Shawn (Wilson) went to the bucket, LJ (Jones) got rebounds and he made a few shots. We were just having fun out there and we looked like a team,” Smith said. The win keeps Eastern in the OVC Tournament hunt and keeps them on pace with the bottom of the conference fighting for the No. 8 spot in the tournament. Eastern, Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois-Edwardsville are all 4-8 in OVC play. Tennessee State is in the No. 7 spot right now at 7-5. Sean Hastings can be reached at 5812812 or smhastings@eiu.edu.
Final seconds sink Eastern in 60-57 loss By JJ Bullock Assistant Sports Editor | @DEN_Sports It looked as if the Eastern women’s basketball team was going to break its five-game losing streak against Tennessee Tech on Saturday, but with 19 seconds left, an inbound pass ended up in the hands of the wrong team. It appeared to be the makings of a marquee win for the Panthers, but it quickly turned into one of their toughest losses to swallow of the season. Eastern led the Golden Eagles 57-56 with 19 seconds to play and the ball in possession of the Panthers. All Eastern had to do was inbound a pass and let the play clock run out or wait for a Tennessee Tech defender to foul and send a Panther to the free-throw line. Eastern junior Carmen Tellez inbounded the ball for the Panthers, and after the ref blew his whistle and sent the players vying for an open spot on the court, Tellez shot a pass right into the hands of Tennessee Tech’s Abby Buckner. Buckner turned and passed it to her teammate Jordan Brock, who took the pass down the court on a fast break and made an easy layup,
giving her team a 58-57 lead with 12 seconds to play. In a matter of seven seconds, Eastern went from a team preparing to take victory formation to a squad trying to figure out what had just happened. Eastern head coach Matt Bollant said he takes responsibility for the failed final play by Eastern. “We ran a play to try to score, thinking it might be there. It wasn’t there, but we threw the pass anyway,” he said. “Looking back, I wish we had just run something to try to get it in, but we didn’t.” Eastern sophomore guard Danielle Berry said the final play developed so quickly, it seemed as if the Panthers could not stop it. “It seemed like we were doing what we should have been doing, and then a split-second happens and we lost,” Berry said. Eastern got the ball back with 12 seconds to play and ran a possession that formulated into a tightly contested missed layup by freshman forward Grace McRae with four seconds to play. The Golden Eagles got the ball back and made two free-throws, icing their 60-57 win at Lantz Arena. Again, in this game, the fourth quarter was bad for the Panthers,
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Freshman Karle Pace dribbles past Tennessee Tech’s Mackenzie Coleman in Eastern’s 60-57 loss Saturday in Lantz Arena. Pace finished with 18 points.
as it has been in almost all of the team’s conference games this season. They shot 30 percent in the quarter after shooting 53 percent
in the third, and watched a game that they controlled for the better part of three quarters slip away. “I think towards the end (Tennessee Tech) went on a run and
they started getting really hyped about it and we didn’t respond the way we needed to,” Berry said of the final quarter. “We started to back off more when we needed to be more aggressive in that situation.” Berry scored seven points for the Panthers. Eastern freshman Karle Pace led all scorers with 18 points in the game. Fo u r Te n n e s s e Te c h p l a y e r s scored in the double digits. Overall, Bollant felt his team played well outside of the fourth quarter. “I thought we played with a lot of heart and energy and the one thing we have struggled with a little bit is knowing how to play with the lead,” he said. “We had the lead late, we haven’t been in that situation and we got a little tight and we probably were not aggressive enough offensively in that fourth quarter. We waited a little long to look to score.” Eastern’s next game is Wednesday against Southern Illinois-Edwardsville in Edwardsville. JJ Bullock can be reached at 5812812 or jpbullock@eiu.edu.