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bheater@dailyhelmsman.com More so than ever in today’s world, the emphasis is placed on the athlete and not the student in college sports. Time and time again, a program loses an athlete due to failing grades or poor attendance. However, during the 2012-2013 academic year student-athletes at the University of Memphis excelled in the classroom, placing 228 on the Conference USA’s Commissioner’s Honor Roll as announced by conference Commissioner Britton Banowsky. Memphis’ 228 student-athletes that made the list is the highest total for any institution this year in C-USA, including prestigiously academic Rice and Tulane. “I am extremely proud of the academic accomplishments of our student-athletes”, said Memphis Athletics Director Tom Bowen. “Their work in the classroom is a tribute, to not only themselves, but to our coaches and to Bob Baker [Director of Athletic Academic Services] and the advisors in our academic center.” This marks the seventh-consecutive year that the number of Tiger student-athletes named to the list has increased. This year’s total was 10 higher than last year’s mark of 218. Behind the Tigers for number of student-athletes named to the C-USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll, UCF ranked second with 227 named to the honor roll with Rice ranking third at 215. “Our commitment as a staff is to make sure that our student-athlete has everything needed to receive a degree from the University of Memphis and
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Megan McDivitt, freshman Emerging Leader, is interviewed by CNN about the importance of cleaning up the lake.
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news@dailyhelmsman.com University of Memphis students will be featured in a CNN Earth Day special for their cleanup efforts at McKellar Lake. Filming took place Tuesday at the Riverside Park Marina and along the shores of McKellar Lake. Groups like the Honors Student Council and TRIO, an organization to support first generation students, came out to show their support along with
Greek organizations like Lambda Chi Alpha, Pi Kappa Alpha, Alpha Gamma Delta, Kappa Delta and Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc. For Megan McDivitt, freshman teaching all learners major and Emerging Leader, this cleanup was her first. “I just think it’s really important for people who are going to become leaders to get involved in the community because Memphis does have the potential to become a great city,
and I feel like we’re the only way that it can happen,” McDivitt said. The McKellar Lake cleanups began approximately two years ago when Living Lands & Waters, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the health of the nation’s major rivers, came to Memphis for a one-day cleanup. Tammy Becker, programs manager of LL&W, said Chad Pregracke, founder, was shocked by how much trash had accumulated. “It was the worst he had seen in
his 15 years of doing this,” Becker said. “We knew we needed to come back and spend time here, so we held an Alternative Spring Break.” They contacted the University of Memphis and asked students to assist with the cleanup. Colton Cockrum, assistant director for the Center for Academic Retention and Enrichment Services, was the faculty sponsor for the Honors Student Council at the time,
directly to the American Cancer Society. One of the American Cancer Society’s signature fundraisers, Relay For Life, is an organized community fundraiser where teams camp out and individual members spend time walking around a track to bring awareness to the cause. Participants form teams and each team is responsible for an individual to walk around the track overnight to represent the way cancer never sleeps, so the fight against cancer
will not sleep either. At the school’s first-ever Relay For Life, there were 492 participants registered online, and more than 700 participated in total. More than $8,000 was raised that night, through team contributions and from the $10 entrance fee collected. Alex Roubidoux played a big part in reaching out to ACS and making the event a success. As Chair of the Relay For Life Committee, he discussed the opportunity with the University of Memphis Bookstore,
and the store jumped on the opportunity. The two ways the bookstore raised money was from customer donations and donating a dollar per Facebook page “like” between March 5 and March 22. “I went to my first relay probably three or four years ago. After that experience, I wanted to bring that event here to Memphis. Virginia Tech has raised over $300,000 and their walk isn’t for another couple of
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news@dailyhelmsman.com The University of Memphis Official Campus Store & Café made a $350 contribution to the University’s Relay For Life program on Thursday. The contribution was a result of the collections at the bookstore from March 5 through March 22. The University Relay For Life was hosted March 22 at Tiger Lane. Proceeds from the event went
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Memphis student Nick Boddington makes his appearance in Hollywood By Melissa Wray
news@dailyhelmsman.com Having all of one’s hopes invested into one opportunity that was taken away can be difficult to deal with, especially if that opportunity happens to be auditioning for a successful talent show like “American Idol.” Since his first performance at 11 years old, University of Memphis alum Nick Boddington claimed that for him, there has never been any alternative other than music. “All I’ve ever wanted to do was sing since I was about four or five years old,” he said. “I haven’t really thought of anything else.” Boddington said he considers his only musical influence to be “the man, Billy Joel” because “there’s so much ease in his voice.” “I saw him performing in concert with Elton John when I was 10 years old, and he made such a lasting impact on me,” he said. “Every last song he’s written is amazing to me.” The Wonderland Robbers, which
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Boddington founded with girlfriend Jade Bartlett, was founded on a trip from Memphis to New York. “I had an idea for a new song, but I couldn’t come up with the lyrics,” he said. “Jade’s good with words, so we started writing together and found out that we’re great together both creatively and professionally.” The sound of the Wonderland Robbers, described as “sort of a theatrical soft-pop thing with a commercial alt-country spin,” stems from a combination of both Boddington’s background of country, pop and blues and Bartlett’s training in musical theater, as well as her influence from jazz legends such as Ella Fitzgerald. However, separate career opportunities for the both of them in the past couple of years have put the Wonderland Robbers on the backburner. After Boddington was eliminated from the Top 60 during Idol’s Vegas Week in 2012, he used the time between auditions to prepare
All I’ve ever wanted to do was sing since I was about four or five years old. I haven’t really thought of anything else.” NICK BODDINGTON, American Idol, Hollywood Cut
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U of M alum Nick Boddington takes the stage in the Top 20 of American Idol this season. himself for the upcoming season, which paid off when he made it to this year’s Top 20. The difference in this year from last year, however, is the fact that the judges didn’t eliminate Boddington this time around. “Mariah, Randy, Nicki and Keith put me all the way through to the Top 20, the live shows, and I can’t be more grateful for their belief in me,”
he said. “Unfortunately, it was a lack of audience votes that sent me home. The competition was tough.” Since being sent home, Boddington has been collaborating more and more with other writers and musicians, recording new songs and putting together a show to take on the road. “I am also actively seeking the right producer or producers to
record my first album,” he said. Boddington also said that although he didn’t make the final cut, he believes that he is still capable of getting to the same places and possibly furthering his music career. “In the meantime, I can now say a fond farewell to that chapter in my career and move on to the next,” he said. n
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ strengths power through HBO’s ‘Veep’ By Steven Zeitchik MCT
BALTIMORE — The good staffers of Vice President Selina Meyer’s office had been trying to put out a fire all afternoon when their slightly discombobulated leader, played by Julia LouisDreyfus, turned up on the set of HBO’s “Veep.” Before she stepped into character, however, Louis-Dreyfus had a question. “Did you talk to the actors about the script changes?” she said to the show’s creator and all-around head coach, Armando Iannucci, as he sat behind a monitor watching takes. He nodded. “Good,” she smiled, then stepped in front of the camera, where in the next scene her character took hold of a developing crisis — and made it much worse. Over a 30-year television career, Louis-Dreyfus has played some rich parts. But she’s never juggled skills likes she has in “Veep” — physical and verbal comedy, broad humor and political satire and, maybe most important, acting and producing. When the half-hour comedy debuts its second season Sunday, it will mark not only the beginning of the next phase of droll British humor on U.S. airwaves but the latest chapter for Louis-Dreyfus. As someone who’s “not only the quarterback but the one who can WWW COM call the.FREETHEHELMSMAN audibles,” in the .words ofWWW castmate Reid Scott, .Louis.FREETHEHELMSMAN COM Dreyfus, 52, will often improv new WWW.FREETHEHELMSMAN.COM
material, guide cast members and offer suggestions to writers. “It does feel like I can do more than I’ve done before,” said the actress, who won an Emmy for her performance in 2012, during a break between scenes. “This is a comedic gold mine. Selina has ambition, and that ambition is thwarted. That allows for a lot of opportunities.” The performers are making the most of them. Over its eight-episode first season, audiences were introduced not only to the manic, self-absorbed Selina but to her dueling senior staffers, Amy and Dan (Anna Chlumsky and Scott), longtime sad-sack press hack Mike (Matthew Walsh) and sycophantic, Purell-equipped assistant Gary (Tony Hale). At its essence, the show examines a simple comedic premise: What happens when people wear the vestments of power without possessing any of the real thing? It does this by combining some diverse sensibilities. Behind the show are a group of Iannucci-led egghead British writers (the kind who are proud of coining a word for the Oxford English Dictionary, as scribe Tony Roche did), veteran Hollywood producers and actors and even the political pundit Frank Rich, who serves as a producer and adviser. The new season continues the series’ tradition of a skewed-eyed view of Beltway life — a press release must be, as a character says in one early episode, the “Gettysburg Address of tightrope-
walking, say-nothing” hogwash — only this time with a lot more plot turns. Selina is given a whiff of power, particularly in the area of foreign affairs. It’s just enough influence to make us — and her — realize how little she has (think diplomatic missions to Helsinki, Finland). “Getting a little bit of power is always funnier than not having any at all,” Iannucci said dryly. Louis-Dreyfus, who signed on the year after her hit CBS sitcom “The New Adventures of Old Christine” ended its run in 2010, has assembled more than a bit of clout herself. It’s rare for an actor to have three bona fide TV hits. It’s rarer still for a principal member of the “Seinfeld” cast, all of whom besides Dreyfus have failed to carry a new series. To do that, she calls upon some familiar strengths. There is the physical aspect, the “Get out” pushes Louis-Dreyfus made famous on “Seinfeld,” now upped to 11. On “Veep,” the actress is often pointing her finger, running barefoot through the Old Executive Office Building or playing a contentious Bert and Ernie game with smug string bean Jonah (Timothy Simons), unwelcome messenger from the White House. “Maybe it’s because I’m short and I’ve had to push my way through a lot in life,” she said, possibly only half-joking. Louis-Dreyfus is 5-foot-3, though her slight frame and, these days, de-poofed hair gives her an even smaller appearance. She projects the air of a
woman who’s more contained than the exuberant characters she tends to play, though there is often a joke playing on her lips, waiting for the right moment to get out. Iannucci added, “She’s not afraid to look awkward, which is a lot rarer in actors than you’d think.” At the moment, Louis-Dreyfus’ face is covered in fake cuts and bruises. The day before she was involved in a physical stunt that Louis-Dreyfus chose to do rather than rely on a stand-in; she didn’t get hurt, though the makeup suggests otherwise. (No spoilers, but let’s just say it involved a fastmoving politician and an immovable object). But the actress’ greatest talent on “Veep” may be verbal. Selina spends much of the series trying to dig her way out of messes she and her staffers have made, often using a string of meaningless platitudes or cleverly deployed obscenities. The show has a knack for combining unexpected words with the F-bombs, including but not limited to “pencil” and “DEFCON.” For an unprintable joke involving a croissant, Louis-Dreyfus was excited for weeks before the scene was to shoot, producers recalled. “I guess I just like cursing,” she shrugged. The show’s audience in its first season was at the niche level, often hovering just around 1 million viewers on its initial airing. And some pundits have criticized it for going back to the awkwardness well too many times.
But those involved say the show is watched by those who matter. An hour away in D.C., where actors will sometimes go to socialize, shoot exteriors and collect wisdom for their characters, they are often stopped by people who say the show accurately captures the drudgery or absurdity of their jobs. “What we’re trying to get is a timeless view of what gets done — or how nothing gets done,” Rich said. Louis-Dreyfus hasn’t had any conversations with Joe Biden — yet. But with the current debate about feminism and leaning-in, there is some topicality to the show — Selina, after all, is an accomplished woman but not-analways-loving mom of a collegeage daughter. A mother to two boys, ages 15 and 20, Louis-Dreyfus can’t believe the awful mother Selina can be sometimes. But she doesn’t think “Veep” is trying to make a grand feminist statement. She does, however, hear the echoes of the Washington world in Hollywood. “There’s always that fear in both politics and show business that, no matter how successful you are, there’s someone younger and more famous who’ll get the job. I mean, I’ve felt that,” she said. “This is a show that’s not as much about politicians as it is about the behavior of people who are in politics.” Then she added, “That sounds like some nonsense Selina would say, doesn’t it?” n
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uuCNN Continued from page 1 and he encouraged the students to attend. “While we were there, several times they mentioned that if we weren’t out there doing it, no one would be,” Cockrum said. “The students said ‘we could do this, we could make a difference,’ so we started partnering with Memphis City Beautiful and started scheduling cleanups.” In the two years U of M students have been doing cleanups, they have had close to 1,000 volunteers collect 25,000 pounds of trash, of which 84 percent was recycled. Last year, the honors students who initiated the effort were awarded a Jefferson Award. Recently, the group has adopted the name “Memphis River Warriors” and had a logo created so they have a recognizable image. “We have been an unnamed group for the past two years, we’ve been successful, so we’ve learned that people join people,” Cockrum said. “We’ve also learned that people join concepts that are bigger than themselves, so we’ve always felt that we needed to have a name for people to rally around.” For the next cleanup, Cockrum hopes there will be bandanas with the name and logo printed on them. “The concept when you come to a Memphis River Warriors event is that you’re initiated into the River Warrior movement, and you receive a bandana,” he said. “Then I would like to see people taking pictures of themselves with their bandana at events. I’d like to get some famous people throughout Memphis like Shirley Raines or AC Wharton to wear a bandana for photos.” Cockrum believes the reason the cleanups have been so successful is because of the U of M student involvement. “This is something University of Memphis students did, it’s been sustained by Memphis students,” Cockrum said. “It’s not a drive-by service project, this is a sustainable project that has picked up incredible momentum. It’s now including other universities, high schools, non-profits and large corporations, but it is a Memphis student-driven initiative.” The CNN special will air April 22. Anyone interested in joining the Memphis River Warriors can join the Facebook group. n
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Volunteers gathered at the ramp of the Riverside Park Marina, where they gathered trash on the shore of McKellar Lake. Once trash bags were filled, they had to be carried to the boats in order to get them to the Living Lands & Waters barge. Trashed toys decorate the LL&W barge.
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Gun measure clears first Senate hurdle, but tougher ones await
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WASHINGTON — A Senate vote Thursday to proceed with debate on gun legislation cleared an important, early hurdle for supporters of firearms restrictions, but backers face huge obstacles in the days and weeks ahead. The Senate plans next week to consider some of the most farreaching gun control measures Congress has debated in more than a decade. Next up are proposals to strengthen background checks, due for a vote Monday or Tuesday, followed by efforts to ban assault weapons, to restrict the size of ammunition clips and more. The Senate hopes to finish work on the measure by April 26. Getting strong gun control legislation is going to be tough. Though the vote to proceed Thursday passed by a bipartisan 68-31 vote, eight more than needed, many senators made it clear they were voting only to keep going, not to endorse any specific measures. “This needs to be debated,” explained Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. But he, like many gun rights advocates, would not even commit to backing Wednesday’s compromise on background checks. He and others wanted to see the exact language first. “There hasn’t been enough explanation,” Corker said. Polls reflected the uncertainty. A CNN/ORC survey April 5-7 showed overwhelming support for background checks — but not all kinds. Nearly nine in 10 people backed tough checks for purchases from a gun store or other business. But that dropped to 70 percent for purchases from an individual and sank to 54 percent for guns bought from a family member or given as gifts. The compromise forged this week by Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., would not make background checks universal, as gun control advocates have sought. Their amendment would apply to gun show sales and online purchases but would exempt private transactions between friends and family members. Still, gun control supporters, including President Barack Obama, saw Thursday’s vote as an important step forward. Sixteen Republicans joined 50 Democrats and two independents in favor of the procedural motion, while two Democrats — Alaska’s Mark Begich and Arkansas’ Mark Pryor — joined 29 Republicans in opposing it. “I’ve long believed we don’t need more laws restricting the Second Amendment rights of Americans, we need to better enforce those on
the books,” explained Begich, who faces a tough re-election next year. The vote was a setback for the National Rifle Association, a politically powerful group that had sought to keep the legislation from getting to the Senate floor. “We are turning the page against the NRA’s dominance,” Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said in an appearance with victims of gun violence and their families before the vote. After the vote, the president spoke with family members of relatives killed in the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. He “congratulated the families on this important step forward,” according to White House press secretary Jay Carney. “The bipartisan progress would not have been possible without their efforts,” Carney said. “He reiterated that much work remains and pledged to continue fighting for the votes they deserve.” Obama, like other gun control backers, praised the victims’ families, which have been meeting this week with senators, for having an important effect on the outcome. They “may well have been decisive,” Carney said. “The president has said all along, and you heard him in Hartford on Monday, that Congress will do the right thing if the American people speak up.” But though the Thursday vote was an important early victory, illustrating that lawmakers were at least willing to debate the bill, there’s little agreement on much else. The NRA, as well as major conservative groups, are watching closely and vowing to remind their
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President Barack Obama spoke at the University of Hartford on Monday, April 8, 2013, in West Hartford, Conn. On the eve of the gun control debate in Washington, Obama pledged that the country would not forget the shooting in Newtown. members how lawmakers voted. However, several groups pushing for tighter gun laws are fighting back. They have major backing from billionaire New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who might serve as a counterweight to two decades of NRA influence on gun issues. “The ground is shifting politically as we speak,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., called the vote a “breakthrough.” The next hurdle will be trying to get agreement on what amendments will be taken up. Gun rights
advocates are preparing their own proposals, believed to involve more funding for mental health, among other proposals. Gun control backers know such proposals might gain considerable support, and by voting for them, on-the-fence senators could claim they voted for gun safety and not take the tougher votes. But without allowing such plans to come to a
vote, supporters risk procedural tie-ups. The supporters’ best hope is that the mood that prevailed this week continues: that for or against gun control, at least there should be a debate. “I hope we don’t have to go through this procedural mishmash,” said Senate Majority Harry Reid, D-Nev. n
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Tennis enters last regular season matches By Meagan Nichols
sports@dailyhelmsman.com The University of Memphis men’s tennis team returns to the Racquet Club of Memphis this weekend after 11 matches on the road. The Tigers face the University of Alabama at Birmingham today and return to action Sunday against South Alabama to end regular season play. “Both teams, UAB and South Alabama, have been in the rankings most of the year and will present our team with big challenges,” said men’s head tennis coach Paul Goebel. After the 4-3 upset against No. 24 ranked Virginia Commonwealth University this past weekend, and the 4-0 win against the then-ranked No. 50 University of Louisville, Memphis jumped 10 spots in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings released Tuesday from No. 46 to 36. Goebel said these matches marked the best weekend of play for his team all season, and they hope to carry their momentum into the Conference USA Tournament set to get underway in Memphis in a week. “To beat a top-25 opponent in VCU and the defending Big East champion Louisville is very exciting for our program,” Goebel said. “We have really been focusing on doubles and it paid off against both of those teams.” Today’s match against UAB starts at 2:00 p.m. and Sunday’s versus South Alabama is slated for 12:00 p.m. Both matches are free and open to the public. “It has been an exciting season with our team playing the hardest schedule in our program’s history,” Goebel said. “We hope that the tough schedule has made us better prepared for the home stretch.”
On the women’s side, the newlyranked No. 28 Tigers are on the road again this weekend to face the Golden Hurricane of the University of Tulsa. The Tigers look to repeat their success from last weekend when they beat the then-ranked No. 21 Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. “The win over a top-25 opponent on the road is exactly what we needed to have true confidence that we can make a deep run in the NCAA tournament,” said head women’s tennis coach Lee Taylor Walker. The Tigers’ new ITA ranking secures the team a spot in the NCAA Championships, thus eliminating their trepidations of being on the bubble, Walker said. “But the number is insignificant other than that. As long as we get into the championship tournament, our team knows they can beat anybody, so it’s a big deal because now we can focus on more important things rather than stressing over whether or not we will get in NCAA’s.” This weekend’s match against No. 26 Tulsa is at 12:00 p.m. The last two times the Tigers faced Tulsa, they fell 4-3 to the Golden Hurricane. This weekend’s match will serve as a final tune up for the Tigers before the conference championships. With this in mind, Walker said the primary concentration is to work on keeping an intense focus on every point, even when they have a strong lead. Walker said Tulsa has consistently been a top-25 team in the country for the past seven years, but his team is deeper and better than when they last met. “But, just like at Notre Dame, it’s hard to win on the road,” Walker said. “So we will need a great effort as usual, but we have the potential to also dominate this match.” n
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(Above) Senior Kelly Gray and fellow Memphis Tigers head to the University of Tulsa this weekend to wrap up the regular season as they take on the No. 26-ranked Golden Hurricane. (Below) Junior Johnny Grimal looks to build on his singles win from last weekend, as he and the rest of the men’s tennis team return home to take on UAB and South Alabama today and Sunday.
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Baseball extends streak to six By Jordan Thomas
sports@dailyhelmsman.com The University of Memphis baseball team continued its recent success Wednesday night, shutting out the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions, 5-0. The win now gives the Tigers a six-game winning streak. Memphis (20-13) had five pitchers collectively shut down the UAPB (10-21) offense by only allowing three hits over the course of the game.
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produced a three-run rally for Memphis. After an interference call was made on UAPB during a run down of Tubbs, who was awarded second base, Drew Griffin singled to left to drive in two more runs. Freshman Collin Lee was the first pitcher out of the bullpen for the Tigers. He struck out three batters and allowed one hit over two innings of work. In the bottom of the fifth inning Memphis tacked on another run to build a 5-0 lead, as White drove in Gross with an
As a hitter you kind of like it. You get in a routine, take your [batting practice] and play.” DARON SCHOENROCK, Tigers baseball head coach
Dylan Toscano made his first start of the season for the Tigers and the first right-hander to start a game. Toscano pitched four innings for Memphis, striking out one batter and allowing one hit. Zach Willis helped the Tigers jump out to a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning when he led off the inning with a line drive triple to left-centerfield. Ethan Gross slapped a groundball to the right side of the diamond, allowing Willis to scamper home. Memphis did not look back from that point on. In the bottom of the third inning, the Tigers added some insurance runs to pad their lead. Back-to-back singles by Carter White and Tucker Tubbs
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RBI single to left field. After Lee’s two innings, Jon Reed and Conner Porter combined for the next two innings and neither allowed a hit. Reed struck out two batters, while Porter struck out the side in the eighth inning. Heith Hatfield pitched a scoreless ninth inning for the Tigers allowing one hit and a walk, but had two strikeouts. Tubbs led the team with three hits while Willis and White had two hits apiece. Memphis outslugged the Lions 10-3 on the evening. The Tigers went 7-3 during their 11-game home stand with a makeup game against Ole Miss slated for Monday night at AutoZone Park.
Memphis will now play five games over the next five days, but head coach Daron Schoenrock is not too worried. He says the Tigers have plenty of starting pitching and a quality bullpen to rely on. “As a hitter you kind of like it,” Schoenrock said. “You get in a routine, take your [batting practice] and play.” Memphis is travelling to Birmingham, Ala., for a three-game Conference USA series with the University of Alabama-Birmingham Blazers (15-18) at Young Memorial Field. “UAB will be a tough challenge,” Schoenrock said. “Coach [Brian] Shoop does a great job in-game exploiting weaknesses you have.” Memphis is looking for redemption after being defeated by the Blazers in the C-USA Championship game last year. The Tigers were beat 5-0 in the game after winning seven straight against UAB. The Tigers will look to improve on their six-game winning streak when left-hander Sam Moll (5-2, 2.77 ERA) takes to the hill Friday at 6:30 p.m. Left-hander Erik Schoenrock (4-2, 2.21 ERA) gets the nod Saturday at 2 p.m., while fellow lefty Alex Gunn (2-2, 1.89 ERA) will toe the
rubber for the series finale Sunday at 1 p.m. “Sam’s had a great career and shown a lot of pitching maturity,” Schoenrock said. “And we follow him up with two very good lefties on the weekend too.” n
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