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Million Meals Challenge in Memphis

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news@dailyhelmsman.com Three campuses. Two causes.

One competition. The University of Memphis, the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University are competing in a challenge to fight hunger and ultimately see which school is the most giving.

Kroger, Mississippi Food Network and Mid-South Food Bank have teamed up to sponsor The Million Meals Challenge. The three universities involved have committed to raising one million meals to help fight the epidemic of hunger in Mississippi and West Tennessee.

“The Million Meals Challenge is an extraordinary opportunity for Kroger to mobilize team rivalry and join forces with the universities in the war on fighting hunger,” said Joe Bell, manager of marketing and public affairs for the Kroger Delta Division.

Students, faculty and alumni can donate in three ways: monetary donations can be made at themillionmealschallenge.com, food collection is available at select Kroger stores and a food drive will be held at the last home football game and at men’s basketball games. Individuals and groups can also volunteer to donate their time.

“If you look at the true spirit of this campaign, it is working together to raise awareness in our communities of the severity of hunger. Plus, [it] supports the needs of their food banks, the Mid-South Food Bank and the Mississippi Food Network,” Bell said.

According to Elisabeth Benson, student coordinator for the project at the U of M, the University is in last place in the competition.

“We want to win because this is our last year in Conference USA and we want to leave having shown that we are the most giving campus,” said Benson, who is president of the Nonprofit Leaders Student Association and vice president of Phi Kappa Phi Honors Student Council. n

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news@dailyhelmsman.com Everyone knows the University of Memphis is home to a variety of students, the Southern Avenue railroad tracks, the Tiger Den and, of course, Tom the Tiger.

Most don’t know, however, that channel catfish call the campus their home as well.

Bill Simco, who has come to be known as Dr. Catfish, is a professor of biological sciences and has studied the productivity and culturing of catfish at the University’s Ecological Resource Center for more than 40 years.

“I’ve been working on factors that influence the productivity of catfish my whole professional career,” Simco said. “I’ve worked on diet requirements, what factors limit productions, genetics and even produced mono-sex populations of only male catfish.”

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The Epsilon Kappa chapter of Delta Sigma Theta performs its first step show in two semesters inside the Michael D. Rose Theatre Lecture Hall on Friday after they were unable to reserve a space on the Alumni Mall.

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Student Association already had the space booked.

Years ago, before the University Center was built, step shows took place on the Alumni Mall. After the construction of the UC, members from the Dean of Students and the Office of Multicultural Affairs were determined to have step shows take place by the fountain on the Student Activities Plaza, according to Danny Armitage, assistant vice president for Student Affairs.

“I don’t know of a policy that says they cannot have it on the Alumni Mall,” he said. “If students are interested in moving them to the previous location, we would have to sit down and talk about it.”

When Epsilon Kappa couldn’t secure the Alumni Mall, they settled on the Michael D. Rose Theatre Lecture Hall, which wasn’t large enough for the crowd that showed up Friday.

“It was really crowded,” said Epsilon Kappa chapter vice president and senior journalism major Kirstin Cheers. “A lot of people didn’t have seats — they were stand-

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Universities ready campuses for debates

By Jory Heckman

Scripps Howard Foundation Wire WASHINGTON — At the University of Denver — the site of last week’s presidential debate between President Barack Obama and former governor Mitt Romney — the campus was in a flurry of activity accommodating the more than 500 media outlets, nearly half of which were foreign press, Chancellor Robert Coombe said.

The global attention brought on by the debate was a learning opportunity for the university, which was likely selected because Colorado is a swing state, according to Coombe.

“This isn’t something that there is a great financial reward to,” he said, “but it’s the sort of thing that a great university ought to do.”

For the vice presidential debate tonight, Michael Strysick, director of communications at Centre College in Danville, Ky., said the campus is looking forward to rehosting this event. In 2000, Centre, which has 1,340 students, hosted the vice presidential debate between Joseph Lieberman and Dick Cheney.

“The media interest on this debate is profound,” Strysick said, noting that news outlets from 20 countries will descend on the town of just over 16,000 residents. “We used to think of this as a big national event, but now it’s an international event.”

In preparing the auditorium, Strysick said one of the most formidable challenges has been providing technology to the press. He said Centre has created a new Internet network exclusively for the debate and has verified it as “crash-proof.” It held a “break the network” event when students were invited en masse to connect their laptops and smartphones to the network to test its stability.

Obama will risk more during his debates with Romney and should expect less of a boost from a positive performance, according to a panel of journalists and media professionals who spoke Oct. 1 at the Newseum in Washington.

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“The risk factor is so high, not losing is sometimes more important than winning — and for Obama this year in particular,” Kathryn Olson, professor of communications at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, said.

One of the panel participants, Sander Vanocur, a former reporter for both ABC and NBC news, was one of the panelists who asked questions during the first presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon in 1960. He is the last surviving participant from that debate.

While the other panelists blamed the candidates for avoiding substantial answers to questions, Vanocur said it’s time to stop blaming politicians.

“Television tries to create the idea it’s clean, and politics is not. Politics is what we need more of,” Vanocur said, calling for civil discussion of the issues.

“Why should we tower ourselves above politicians? We’ve had enough of debasing of politics in this country. Let’s end it,” Vanocur said.

At Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., Aaron Calvin, an entertainment editor at the Hofstra Chronicle, the student newspaper, said student media have been busy covering political events — such as speeches delivered by former Florida governor Jeb Bush and Cornel West, a prominent scholar of African American studies.

Calvin said outside media coverage has yet to make much of an impact

on the campus, but security has been more wary.

“There hasn’t been a lot of activity on campus so far, but the campus police have been more active,” he said.

Calvin said the Chronicle staff will have credentials to be inside the David S. Mack Sports Complex, where the Oct. 16 presidential debate will be staged.

For Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., Joshua Glanzer, director of public relations, said the new performing arts center on campus was one of the most attractive aspects of its application to the Commission on Presidential Debates.

After hosting the 2010 congressional debate between Republican candidate Allen West and Democrat Ron Klein, Glanzer said administrators sought more high-profile political events.

“They knew they wanted to repeat that as much as possible,” Glanzer said, explaining the college’s bid for this presidential race.

However, Glanzer said overhauling the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center has also been one of the most challenging tasks.

“You basically have to turn it from a theatrical stage to a television studio,” Glanzer said.

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Republican vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan with his wife, Janna, as he arrives at the Bluegrass Airport on Wednesday in Lexington, Ky. The vice presidential debate between Democratic incumbent Vice President Joe Biden and Ryan is set for tonight in Danville, Ky.

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Paul D. Ryan’s first debate performance was nothing like his opponent expected. It was 1998, and Ryan was a 28-year-old Wisconsin congressional aide with powerful Washington mentors. Lydia Spottswood was a nurse and president of the Kenosha City Council, who thought helping her community was fun.

“I had naive ideas about how it worked,” said Spottswood, now 61, whose loss to Ryan 14 years ago launched him on an unimpeded political career that has led to Centre College in Danville, Ky., where tonight he will meet Vice President Joe Biden in their only debate.

“I thought, ‘It’s ladies and gentlemen running for Congress,’” Spottswood said Sunday. What she got, she said, was “shock and awe.”

This time, Ryan expects to be the target.

“We think he’s going to come at me like a cannonball,” Ryan told Wisconsin radio host Charlie Sykes on Saturday after three days of debate preparation in a resort at the foot of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.

To the Weekly Standard, Ryan added: “He’ll be in full attack mode and I don’t think he’ll let any inconvenient facts get in his way.”

As in 2008, where Sarah Palin had to convince voters that she was ready for the demands of the vice president’s office, the stakes in this debate are also unusually high.

Polls in the last few days show that President Barack Obama’s lackluster performance against Mitt Romney altered the race, with states that were assumed to be leaning comfortably toward Democrats, such as Ohio and perhaps even Michigan, starting to look more favorable for Romney.

Ryan’s job will be to keep the Republican momentum going

until Obama and Romney meet for their second debate Tuesday.

The Ryan camp, not surprisingly, is pushing down expectations.

An oft-repeated sentiment from Ryan and his staff: Biden might suffer from foot-in-mouth disease, but the debate stage effects a magical, if temporary, cure.

“He doesn’t produce gaffes in these moments,” Ryan told Fox News on Sept. 30.

In the last few days, as he hunted for votes in Milwaukee, suburban Detroit and Toledo, Ohio, Ryan, 42, seemed unruffled by the pending showdown. With journalists and Secret Service agents in tow, he took his children to a pumpkin patch in southeast Wisconsin and shopped for spices for his homemade venison sausage at a favorite Italian deli in Kenosha. He wandered to the back of his plane at least three times to greet journalists traveling with him and engage in innocuous, offthe-record chitchat about tattoos and rock lyrics.

Earnest and congenial, he never uttered a newsworthy word.

Unlike Biden, 69, he’s a talking point stickler who has yet to be pried off message, which could present a challenge to Biden and debate moderator Martha Raddatz of ABC News.

Ryan has become adept at talking around the one question that comes at him every day, in interviews and from supporters at town hall meetings: Which loopholes and deductions would he and Romney eliminate to pay for their proposed, across-the-board 20 percent federal income tax reduction?

Asked about the plan repeatedly by Chris Wallace in a Fox News interview last month, Ryan said, “It would take me too long to go through all of the math.”

The question is almost certain to be lobbed at him by Raddatz or Biden.

Also, given Biden’s and Raddatz’s deep experience with

foreign affairs, there will be questions about America’s role in the world, seen by the Obama team as a Ryan vulnerability.

Ryan’s senior aides bristle at the idea that he is unschooled in foreign affairs, and point out that Ryan’s budget committee handles allocations for the departments of State and Defense.

“He’s voted to send men and women to war,” Ryan spokesman Michael Steel said. “He’s visited Afghanistan and Iraq, and Walter Reed (Army Medical Center). He’s attended the funerals of men and women from his district who have lost their lives.”

Apart from Ryan’s first congressional race, he has never faced a truly threatening debate opponent, said a Wisconsin political scientist who has followed Ryan’s career.

“To be blunt, Ryan’s never had a candidate here except for Lydia Spottswood that he had to be combative for,” Carthage College professor Jeff Roberg said.

Ryan’s challenger in four races from 2000 and 2006, physician Jeff Thomas, didn’t raise money or run ads. “He was a terrible candidate,” Roberg said.

In 2008, Ryan faced a new challenger: Marge Krupp, a chemical engineer. Ryan massively outspent her and won 64 percent of the vote.

“You really have to have your ducks in a row to anticipate what kind of baloney he will come up with,” Krupp said Monday.

She believed she won the first of her three debates with Ryan, but Roberg, who was the moderator, remembered it as “one of Ryan’s finer moments.”

An audience member critical of Obama vociferously pressed Krupp to denounce the then-presidential candidate, Roberg said.

The moment became increasingly tense, he recalled, until Ryan intervened: “He said, ‘We are not here to defend the national ticket.

Let’s keep this on our level.’” n

The National Wildlife Federation acknowledged the University of Memphis as a Certified Wildlife Habitat on Sept.

18. The title recognizes the campus as a healthy and sustainable home for a variety of animals.

The 300-acre campus is teeming with wildlife.

“It is amazing that here in the middle of an urban setting we have an abundance of wildlife,” said Joellen Dimond, U of M horticulturist. “The Campus Landscape section of the Physical Plant provides good stewardship of the land and has nurtured a diverse environment that sustains the four elements needed to attract and maintain wildlife — water, food, shelter and a place to raise young.”

There are more than 65 different types of trees that help provide shelter for birds, squirrels, chipmunks and other animals.

Because of the wealth of trees, the University was designated as a Level II Arboretum four years ago.

“I think it’s great. The campus is basically an urban forest,” said Randall Bayer, professor and chairman of the biology department.

In addition to birds, students and visitors have spotted flying squirrels, snakes, falcons, raccoons, red foxes and coyotes, Bayer said.

“The most outstanding wildlife are the red-tailed hawks. They are fascinating to watch majestically flying between buildings, and catching and eating prey,” she said. n

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Tigers’ Ta es “I plan to visit family and go shopping.”

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uuCatfish Continued from page 1 Ecological Resource Center, located at the U of M’s Park Avenue campus, experiments conducted have helped increase the productivity of culturing and farming catfish in the Tri-State Delta area. Simco has sex-reversed fish,

“I’m going to Chicago.”

Jenna Rollins, Physical education teacher education senior

or catfish that had the genotype to be a male but were produced female and vice-versa.

“There are a lot of basic sciences involved,” Simco said. “One thing is, if you have to keep anything alive, you learn a lot about that organism — whether it’s a plant at home or a fish in an aquarium.”

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“You learn a lot about the behavior of animals, when they’re doing well and when they’re not doing so well. You can tell in some degree by looking at a fish whether it’s in good condition,” he said.

Simco and colleague Joseph Loeb are working toward the new Urban Ecology Initiative, which helps establish an environmen-

tally friendly workforce and sets a model for others to follow locally and globally.

“It’s the idea of the whole urban ecology, agriculture, fish culture and oneness of people. It’s learning how to make the most of what we’ve been given instead of throwing away half of it,” Loeb said.

“I plan to stay home and do my project.”

Yan Gong, Computer engineering graduate student

The Ecological Resource Center recently completed the development of a natural resource management plan for Shelby Farms Park, a 4,500-acre area.

“It’s a big project we’ve completed and now we’re working for Shelby Farms to maintain and develop those natural resources,“ Simco said. n

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By Emily Wilkins

Scripps Howard Foundation Wire WASHINGTON — Again and again the question was posed — if the University of Texas at Austin was striving for diversity through the admissions process, what was the school’s goal?

It was something of a Catch-22 for the lawyers representing the school in a case argued Wednesday at the Supreme Court. A young woman sued UT, claiming it rejected her application while admitting lesser-qualified nonwhite students.

UT defended the practice as necessary to reach critical mass — enough minority students for the university to offer students a beneficial and diverse experience.

But defining “critical mass” was hard to do. That was the standard set in the last major case the Supreme Court decided in race and university admissions, Grutter v. Bollinger.

In the 2003 case, the court said in a 5-4 ruling that having a quota is unconstitutional, but it allowed race to be a factor in the admissions process.

“We should probably stop calling it a critical mass then, because mass, you know assumes numbers,” Justice Antonin Scalia said. “Call it a cloud or something like that.”

The decision of eight justices could end affirmative action or hold colleges accountable for showing that policies to increase diversity are needed for the benefit of the student body.

Justice Elena Kagan recused herself, presumably because she worked on the case as solicitor general before being appointed to the court.

If there were a tie, the Fifth Circuit Court’s ruling in favor of UT would stand.

Abigail Fisher, who was not accepted to the school in 2008, although her sister and father had both attend-

uuStep Continued from page 1 ing outside.”

Armitage said in Epsilon Kappa’s case the University was most likely trying to avoid booking multiple events outside at the same time so the events would not interrupt each other.

“If the fountain was booked, I would imagine the University would not want to host another event around the corner of the building,” he said. “The event may interfere with the other event. There may be a reason for not putting two events outdoors at the same time.”

Daniel Tillman, senior political science major and member of Alpha Phi Alpha, said his fraternity has also faced the potential “disturbing the peace and causing a fire hazard” issues when they attempted to “stroll” for students on the Alumni Mall.

“When they first opened the UC they said they were building it for the students, so let us decide what we do.

ed, was present for the argument.

She graduated from Louisiana State University.

Amicus briefs — arguments from parties not directly involved in the case — totaled 72 supporting UT and 17 supporting Fisher. About 100 colleges signed onto briefs supporting UT’s position.

The attorneys for both parties were careful to say they did not wish to see the Grutter ruling overturned.

But Justice Sonia Sotomayer questioned the line between promoting diversity to benefit all students and creating a process that is unfair to nonminority students.

“When do we stop deferring to the university’s judgment that race is still necessary?” she said. “That’s the bottom line of this case.”

In the Grutter case, former justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote the majority opinion. With a more conservative court, Justice Anthony Kennedy may provide the deciding vote.

He asked Fisher’s attorney about other race-neutral methods UT could use to promote diversity and joined Chief Justice John G. Roberts in repeatedly questioning UT’s attorney about how the university would know when it has truly reached its goal of providing students with a diverse experience.

The justices also asked about the numbers of minorities at UT, which can tell two different stories.

One is that without race as a factor in admissions, a Texas law requiring colleges to accept students ranked in the top 10 percent of their Texas high schools brings in the necessary diversity. Diversity increased after the law was put into place.

The second is that not all minorities increased their representation under that law. Some racial groups’ presence increased only after race once again became part of the admissions criteria.

Fisher’s attorney, Bert W. Rein, said

If it is for a good cause and for a good purpose, let us do what we do and have fun,” he said.

Bob Barnett, director of the UC and Rose Theatre, said he was not working at the University when step shows were held on the Alumni Mall but knows with the construction of the UC there is not enough space to hold a performance event on the Mall.

“Because of the tiger statue and all the permanent furniture, you cannot have people blocking the entrance to the building by standing on the steps,” he said. “If you take away all that, there is still not adequate space for a performance. We never hold events there that could draw a large crowd.”

Leslie Berry, member of the Epsilon Kappa chapter and junior engineering major, said she doesn’t see the difference between student involvement fairs, which have taken place on the mall for the past few years, and step shows.

“I think it is unfair that any other

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Abigail Noel Fisher, who sued the University of Texas at Austin after the university did not admit her, leaves the court with her lawyers after the case was argued Wednesday before the Supreme Court. She charged that the university discriminated against her because she is white. that an estimated 1 percent, or 55 students admitted to UT each year, are admitted because of race, a number that could be recreated with raceneutral admissions.

UT surveyed students when the top 10 law was in place but before race was part of the admission process. Most students said the campus needed more diversity. The lawyers did not say if the university has done a follow-up survey.

After the arguments, Fisher and her lawyers held a brief news conference.

Fisher said she was grateful the court heard her case, and she thanked her family and her lawyers.

“My parents always taught me that it is wrong to discriminate,” she said. “I hope the Supreme Court will decide that all future UT freshman applicants will compete without their race or ethnicity used in the school’s admissions

event can be held except step shows,” she said.

Armitage said the University receives complaints from the classrooms surrounding the Alumni Mall no matter what event is taking place.

Justin Lawhead, associate dean of students for leadership and involvement, said the University is not “saying no” to hosting step shows on the Alumni Mall, but that it “holds a fair amount of logistical challenges.”

Tillman said he thinks the UC is using the issue of people gathering for a step show and causing a fire hazard as an excuse for not allowing Pan-Hellenic Greeks to host step shows on the Mall.

“I feel like it has to do with who will be out there,” he said. “Greeks are stereotyped. (A step show) takes on and personifies the situation. You might think, ‘What’s going on?’ or you might get nervous, but if it is actually for a good cause of entertainment and excitement, having it at the Alumni Mall would catch people’s attention in a positive way.” n

process.”

UT President William Powers Jr. said Texas has come a long way since the days of segregation and the university is proud of being “on the right side of history.”

He praised Fisher for her bravery.

Before and after the arguments, a crowd of more than 100 demonstrated in favor of affirmative action.

UT senior Joshua D. Tang, 22, was among the protesters. The Asian American Legal Defense Fund, which wrote a brief in support of UT, flew him to Washington. Tang said more diversity is needed at UT and race needs to be recognized as “an important fact in how a person lives their lives.”

Despite the importance of diversity to Tang, he was quick to point out how little it factored into UT’s admissions

process but that it’s an important part of college life.

“Race is just a part of a seven-part system in our application process,” he said. “It couldn’t be any less important to UT’s admissions process.”

Paul Wolfson, a partner at WilmerHale law firm that submitted a brief on behalf of multiple Ivy League schools in support of UT, said universities are concerned that a ruling for Fisher would greatly complicate the admissions process.

“Many universities are concerned ... universities will be held to an excessively rigorous standard of proof demonstrating that race-conscious policies are absolutely necessary to accomplish the educational benefits of diversity, and there’s no race-neutral means of accomplishing that,” Wolfson said at a press conference last week. n

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Jennifer Johnson, jersey No. 11, helped the Lady Tiger rugby team take home the win in last week’s game against Southern Illinois University at 59-0.

Two students are seeking a minimum of 10 women to play for their up-and-coming rugby club at the University of Memphis.

Lady Tiger rugby began in the summer with 10 players.

The team needs to add to the present number of players for fall and spring seasons to practice and compete at home and away games.

There is a game every Saturday with other college teams and practice days are Monday and Thursday at 6:30 p.m.

The home games are mostly played at Tobey Park off of Central Avenue and Hollywood Street.

Emily McElravey, sophomore sports management major, started the idea of creating a a women’s rugby team at the U of M last spring after playing the sport at her high school two years prior.

McElravey is receiving financial support from the men’s rugby coach to start the registered student organization that is tentatively named the Lady Tiger Football Rugby Club.

“Right now we are a club sport, we are not financially backed by the U of M,” McElravey said.

In order to have an all women’s sport on campus, a men’s team has to be in existence, she said.

Currently, there is a U of M men’s rugby club that has gained a number of participants.

“In order to play rugby, a team needs at least 15 players,” McElravey said.

The hopeful group has bonded with Memphis Flamingos, a noncollege women’s team that also practices with them.

Jennifer Johnson, a sophomore psychology major, has been a friend of McElravey’s for a long time and agreed to becoming the recruiter for a women’s rugby team on campus.

Johnson said every Saturday is “rugby day” and playing the sport requires a lot of commitment.

“If things get real serious by the spring, we will be practicing Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:30 [p.m.] with the guy’s team,” Johnson said. “It will help our team out a lot for people to see girls and guys working together.”

Students who are interested must be enrolled full-time at the U of M and cannot have attended the University for more than five years.

Rachelle Cooper, junior civil engineering major, is one of the original 10 players to join the team.

Cooper said so far the team has had problems getting women to play.

“The summer time is not so bad because we play summer seven, which only requires seven people to play,” she said.

Saturday, 32 women’s college teams across the United States will compete in a Division I and Division II tournament in Miami, Fla. The U of M’s makeshift team will participate in the Division II category.

College rugby for women is growing in southern areas. Sites that are closest to Memphis are Middle Tennessee State University, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Southern Illinois University.

To sign up, students can contact Emily McElravey at mclravey@ memphis.edu or Jennifer Johnson at jjhnsn49@memphis.edu. n

Tigers close out nonconference with win

By Jaclyn Redmon

news@dailyhelmsman.com The University of Memphis men’s soccer team ended nonconference play in a 1-0 victory over the University of Central Arkansas.

The Tigers (4-5-2) took the lead over the UCA Bears (6-5-0) in the 84th minute with a free kick by fresh-

man midfielder Simon Estornel.

“It’s a big win for the team today,” Estornel said.

The penalty kick goal was the first for Estornel as a Memphis Tiger.

“I am very proud of Simon,” head coach Richie Grant said.

The Tigers offense took over the first half, shutting out the Bears

10-1. The Tigers took three shots on goal but couldn’t produce a score.

“It was hard in the first half,” Grant said. “It was very important on the sideline to just make sure we kept our shape and not get countered in attack.”

Despite the first half offensive advantage, the Tigers entered halftime scoreless.

“We felt a little disappointment [to not come in at half] one nil,” Grant said.

The Tigers came out to start the second half aggressive, firing several shots on the net to open the second half of play.

“We created three or four good chances at the start of the second half,” Grant said. “That really set the tone.”

The Tigers defense held the Bears’ physical style of play to five shots and one shot on goal.

“It was a very physical game,” said Estornel, who was fouled with six minutes of play left.

The Bears committed 15 fouls against the Tigers. The last one proved to be costly, as Estornel was given a free kick after being just outside the 18-yard box. He then netted the ball to the left post for the game-winning goal.

“We caused some problems and got the free kick,” Grant said.

The penalty kick gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead over the Bears, the only score they would need. The Tigers’ defense proved to be too much for

photo By Albert Crozier | staff

Junior forward Mark Sherrod runs to get open in a recent matchup against Drake. the Bears, holding them to four shots and two corner kicks in the second half and five total shots for the game.

“We were trying to make sure our shape was right and be organized in the way we wanted to go about stopping them from moving the ball,” Grant said.

Goalkeeper Conor Hurley came up big in the second half with a save, earning him his third shutout of the season.

“I am very pleased with the second half and increasing the tempo,” Grant said. “It’s always a risk that you leave yourself a little exposed.”

Grant said this was a big win for his team as they move on to the rest of the conference slate.

“It was important that we got some confidence,” he said.

The Tigers will take on the University of Tulsa Golden Hurricane at Mike Rose Stadium on Saturday at 7 p.m. n

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UM men’s golf team to play in tournament

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Tigers set for weekend matches

By Bryan Heater

bheater@dailyhelmsman.com The University of Memphis men’s golf team is packing up its clubs to travel to Jonesborough, Tenn., this weekend for the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate hosted by East Tennessee State University.

Competing against the Tigers are teams from Tennessee, East Tennessee State, Army, Coastal Carolina, Furman, Missouri, Penn State, Pepperdine, North Carolina-Wilmington, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest.

Memphis is coming off a fifthplace finish out of 11 teams at the Shoal Creek Intercollegiate.

Juniors Will Pearson and Grant Milner led the way for the Tigers, shooting an even 216 respectively to tie for eighth individually.

Senior Steve Lee and junior Erwan Vieilledent also had positive outings. Both shot an 11-over 227 to tie for 36th place.

Senior Lexus Keoninh finished right behind Lee and Vieilledent with a score of 12-over 228 to tie for a 41st place finish.

The Tigers have played in three tournaments thus far, with a team-high third place finish at the Turning Stone Tiger Intercollegiate to start the season. The team also placed 10th out of 15 teams in the Gopher Invitational.

The Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate is scheduled to start Friday and will run all day.

The tournament will wrap up on Sunday. n

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Sophomore Kylie Davis and the women’s soccer team look to get back on track after their first Conference USA loss in more than two years.

By Bryan Heater

bheater@dailyhelmsman.com Coming off its first Conference USA loss in more than two years, the University of Memphis women’s soccer team looks to right the ship tonight against the Rice University Owls and Sunday versus the University of Houston Cougars.

The Owls (7-5-3, 4-1-1 C-USA) enter tonight with one of the best defenses in the conference, allowing 0.96 goals per game. Goalkeeper Amy Czyz holds down the net for Rice. On the season, Czyz is giving up 1.01 gpg in 15 starts. She has allowed 15 goals in 1,338:59 of play,

along with three shutouts and 71 saves.

The Tigers (9-4-0, 5-1-0 C-USA) will have to buckle down in the first half defensively, as Rice has scored 11 of its 17 goals in the first half of play.

Forward Holly Hargreaves paces the Owls’ offense with eight goals and three assists. Backing her is forward Lauren Hughes, who has chipped in with six goals and two assists.

Rice’s offense as a whole averages 16.7 shots a game with a 0.406 shot on goal percentage. They average a 1.13 gpg. Memphis owns the all-time series lead against the Owls 4-1-1.

After Friday’s contest, the Tigers welcome the Houston Cougars for

senior day on Sunday. The Cougars (4-6-3, 0-2-3 C-USA) have struggled on offense for much of the season, netting one gpg on 8.9 shots per game.

Midfielder Jasmine Martinez generates most of the offense for Houston with five of the team’s 13 goals on the season. The next leading goal scorer is Kayla Walker, who has netted three balls.

Houston’s defense has kept them from getting blown out in most of their games. Goalkeeper Cami Koski has guarded the net for the Cougars for every minute played this year, boasting a 1.46 goals against average with 61 saves and two shutouts. The

all-time series between the two teams has been close, with Memphis edging the Cougars in the series 7-6-1.

Houston won the first six meetings between the schools, but Memphis has dominated since then with seven wins in eight contests.

A loss is typically tough to bounce back from, especially when the last time it happened was more than two years ago, but Memphis has gotten past losses with little problems in the last decade. Since 2002, the Tigers are 36-15-3 after a loss.

Tonight’s match versus Rice will air on the Fox Soccer Channel and is set to start at 7 p.m. Senior day will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday. n

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