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PRITZKER APPOINTS FIVE MEMBERS TO SIU BOARD OF TRUSTEES Brian Munoz | @brianmmunoz

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The SIU Board of Trustees will see five new faces after Gov. JB Pritzker chose to not reappoint trustees Randal Thomas, Shirley Portwood and Joel Sambursky.

Pritzker has also dismissed trustees Marsha Ryan and Tom Britton, who were never formally approved through the Illinois Senate.

Filling the five trustee positions, upon Senate confirmation are Subhash Sharma, Roger Tedrick,

Edgar J. Curtis, Ed Hightower and John Simmons.

“Serving on the SIU Board of Trustees has been a great honor. I approached this responsibility as I have all other areas of my life and gave it everything I had,” Sambursky said. “I am truly thankful for the opportunity to have served during a critical time in the University’s history.”

Sambursky said despite challenges the board faced, he is proud of the colleagues who stood by him in defense of the

SIU System.

“I am disappointed that I will not continue my service on the board. Yet, I leave confident in Judge Gilbert’s leadership.

I will continue to offer my support to a University that has done so much for me and my family,” Sambursky said.

“I wish the new Trustees the best. It’s important to all of us throughout southern Illinois that they are successful.”

Sharma is a former professor and former chair in the Department of Economics at

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Southern Illinois University Carbondale and retired Fall 2018.

He started at the university in 1983, according to his CV. He worked on a 2008 study estimating the economic impact of a proposed capital spending plan, which was advocated by then-governor Rod Blagojevich and was considered by the Illinois General Assembly.

Tedrick, a 1970 graduate of Southern Illinois University, is the president and CEO of Tedrick Insurance Agency in Mount Vernon.

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SIU literary works nominated for 50th annual NAACP Imagery Awards Emily Cooper | @ECooper212

Keymera Clay from Dallas, Texas looks at her mother, on Saturday during the Under The Sea Pageant at the University Mall. Keymera will be going on to the state pageant in Bloomington. Keymera’s mother said that she wanted her to have a day that’s all for herself. See more on page 9.

He has served on the SIU Foundation Board and as the group’s president, he has also served as chair of the Saluki Futures Campaign for athletic facilities.

Tedrick was a member of the SIU Board of Trustees from 2004 to 2011, serving as board as chair for six years.

Last February, Tedrick and his wife, Sally, pledged donating $250 thousand over five years to help add undergraduate research opportunities through the REACH program.

Two SIU literary works are nominated for the 50th annual NAACP Imagery Awards, the ceremony for which will be held March 29 and 30 at Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, California.

Allison Joseph’s ‘Confessions of a Bare Faced Woman’ and Cyrus Cassells’ “The Gospel According to Wild Indigo” are two nominees with connections to Southern.

“The NAACP Imagery Awards are similar to the Oscars, except there are literature categories,” Joseph said. “There’s a category for books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and instructional work. It’s really fascinating.”

Joseph, who is also the director of the creative writing department at SIU, said the university community is going to be represented on one of the biggest entertainment stages there is.

“The interesting thing as opposed to other entertainment awards this one is put on by an American institution,” Joseph said. “The NAACP is all about the quality and fairness.”

Confessions of a Bare Faced Woman Joseph said her book, ‘Confessions of a Bare Faced Woman,' is about growing up black and female. She takes on issues of feminism, body image, family and the complex relationships between mothers and daughters. The title of the book is actually in reference to not wearing makeup.

“I have been very lucky,” Joseph said. “I have published books for over 20 years and for some reason, [this book] has struck a chord. It’s great to publish a book and particularly something is as obscure as poetry.”

Joseph’s book was published

by Red Hen Press in Pasadena, California. She said usually poetry collections are expected to sell maybe a couple hundred copies, but sales for her book which was published around this time last year, have continued to climb.

“It has been reviewed more than any other book I have written,” Joseph said. “I’m really grateful and pleased.”

She said her book was rejected at first and students and anyone looking to be a writer should know they will face rejection.

“I was venting on Facebook, as one does, about having that book rejected and the publisher at Red Hen Press, who was a friend of mine, Kate Gale, contacted me about sending her my manuscripts,” Joseph said.

“I sent her several manuscripts and the one she really like was the ‘Confessions of a Bare Faced Woman.’”

"The Gospel According to Wild Indigo" Cassells, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, is a professor of creative writing at Texas State University in San Marcos and his book, "The Gospel According to Wild Indigo," was recently published

by SIU Press.

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Tedrick was in hot water when a 2009 Chicago Tribune report revealed Tedrick, who owns Tedrick Insurance based in Mt. Vernon, sold insurance to construction companies that, in nearly 40 instances, won business with the university.

The report shows he voted to approve at least 20 of the contracts, which also included contracts for Saluki Way, the university’s $83 million campus overhaul project that built Saluki Stadium and renovated SIU Arena.

Tedrick, along with fellow board members John Simmons and Bill Bonan II, gave money to Blagojevich, causing some to speculate they paid for board positions, according to the Daily Egyptian.

"Am I proud that I gave to Blagojevich? No," Tedrick said in a 2009 interview. "I wish I hadn’t ever given him anything because he is a joke."

Curtis is the president and chief executive officer of Memorial Health System, where he has served in the role since January 2008. He received his Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 1975 and is member of the 2009 SIUE Alumni Hall of Fame.

Hightower is the director of the Mannie Jackson Center for the Humanities Foundation and is a three-degree holder from SIU Edwardsville – a 1974 BS in physical education, a Masters in Education in 1977 and a Specialist Degree in 1991. He was superintendent of the Edwardsville School District for 16 years. He previously served on the SIU Board of Trustees from 20012013 as a trustee, vice chair of the board and chair of the Academic Affairs Committee.

Simmons is a chairman of the national law firm Simmons Hanly Conroy. He is a 1991 graduate

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“My book is a sequence of poems about Gullah culture and that’s the culture in Charleston South Carolina in the Sea Islands,” Cassells said.

The Gullah people are the descendants of the indigo planting slaves who lived on plantations in that part of the south, according to Cassells.

“One of the other things that make them distinct from the rest of the African American population is that they were left to kind of supervise things in the plantation,” he said.

Their culture is a little bit more independent and Gullah is a dialect which seems to be a descendent of African language from Angola, according to Cassells.

“The book is a sequence of lyrical poems celebrating the area in that particular culture, that’s the first half of the book,” he said. “The second half of the book takes place mostly in Europe and it’s related to a period when I was traveling in mostly France and Spain. There are two psalms that open the book and the title ‘The Gospel According to Wild Indigo,’ is the Gullah cycle.”

Provided images From top left: Subhash Sharma, John Simmons, Ed Hightower, Ed Curtis and Roger Tedrick

of SIUE, receiving his degree in political science. The namesake for SIUE’s Simmons Baseball Complex, Simmons worked to send SIUE Athletics to full NCAA Division I status. He previously served as a member of the SIU Board of Trustees from 2004 to 2013.

Hightower’s and Simmons’ appointment raises concerns to some after Rep. Jay Hoffman, D-Collinsville, introduced legislation in 2013 attempting to split the system.

Then-president Glenn Poshard said then-Gov. Pat Quinn’s choice to not reappoint three Metro East trustees – John Simmons, Ed Hightower and Mark Hinrichs, “caused the feelings of separation to reignite, saying SIU Edwardsville is well loved and some feel the campus is not getting the respect it deserves.”

Hightower was named in correspondence where Randy Dunn, former SIU president, instructed Randy Pembrook, SIU Edwardsville chancellor, to get an Edwardsville trustee named prior to Tom Britton’s appointment to the board.”

“You are meeting w/ Jay Hoffman tomorrow, yes?

Whenever…drive home the point that you need his help getting the vacant Trustee seat filled with a metro east person,” Dunn wrote.

“While the gov’s office isn’t going to listen to Jay…Jay knows the people who the gov’s office will listen to on this one. We might end up with Ed Hightower, who knows, but he is 100 times better than the 4th who the Carbondale T’ees are trying to get named…”

The correspondence was part of nearly 1,900 pages of materials made public by the Board of Trustees June 2018, which showed Dunn coordinated with SIUE administration and legislators in attempts to dissolve the university system.

The SIU Board of Trustees meets today and tomorrow at the SIU School of Medicine in Springfield.

Cassells said it is especially exciting for him to be nominated for this award because he comes from a very distinguished, trailblazing African-American family.

“The book took 15 years from its conception to getting published last year,” he said. “I went to Charleston, as an actor, to work on a role for a play called ‘Yellow Man,’ and the production got canceled. Then these poems started coming to me, so there were a lot of ups and downs enfolded in it, but I think the result has been one that I’ve been really, really happy with.”

Learning about the nominations Joseph said she found out she she was nominated when she went on the NAACP website to keep voting for Regina King, one of her favorite actresses.

“When I was on the website, people on Facebook were saying ‘Allison, you were nominated for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry,’” she said. “As a writer, you enter a lot of [competitions] and you just never know.”

Cassells said Jon Tribble, managing editor of Crab Orchard Review and the person who chose

his book to be published, told him he was nominated for the award.

“It came out the middle of February and then I got the message from the organization,” he said.

Joseph said it is a once and a lifetime experience to see these two books in this category.

“I know they received so many submissions, but to have connections to our university is quite remarkable,” Joseph said.

2019 Entertainer of the Year Before recognizing the nominees in the eight unique categories, the NAACP will announce The 2019 Entertainer of the Year, according to a university press release. The five nominees for this award are: Beyoncé, Chadwick Boseman, Ryan Coogler, Regina King and LeBron James.

A variety of notable celebrities attends the renowned event each year, with stars such as Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington, John Legend, Kevin Hart, Will Smith, Halle Berry, Mandy Moore, Viola Davis and many others making appearances.

Voting for the Entertainer of the Year is open until March 4 on the NAACP Image Awards website.

Editor in Chief Brian Munoz can be reached at bmunoz@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @brianmmunoz.

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Hike with a Homeless Dog event promotes exercise, dog adoption

Emily Cooper | @ecooper212

Giant City State Park partnered with Wright-Way Animal Rescue for the biannual “Hike with a Homeless Dog” event where volunteers around the southern Illinois area walk the trails with a dog from the shelter.

“We’ve done four of these before,” Jennifer RandolphBollinger, natural resources coordinator for the park, said.

“A few years ago, I was doing research online and came across a state park in Texas that was doing something that was called ‘Hike with a Homeless Dog,’ so I looked into it a little more, and thought it would be a perfect fit for Giant City.”

The event is a great way to get the dogs outside and get them some exercise as well as getting people outside, Randolph-Bollinger said.

The possibility for an adoption is just icing on the cake.

“We usually have about 25 dogs,” Randolph-Bollinger said. “We offer two different sessions. We’ll do a 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and an 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., 50 people usually register.

We have several more that call that we put on a waitlist. Wright-Way has several volunteers that come out to help unload the dogs.”

Randolph-Bollinger said she knows the owners of Wright-Way, so she thought it would be a great fit for them to come out.

Erin Ellison, a staff member at Wright-Way, said Wright-Way is

Carson VanBuskirk | @CarsonvanDE Alaina and Heather Reno, of Carterville, walk dogs on Saturday for Wright-Way Animal Rescue’s “Hike with a Homeless Dog” event at Giant City State Park.

a non-profit, no-kill rescue which is located off of Old Highway 13, between Carbondale and Murphysboro.

“The goal is always 25 [dogs], but I believe we have 29 this year, that does include four alumni dogs that have been previously been adopted out, but they’re still here to enjoy the nice weather,” Ellison said.

She said it takes a couple weeks to plan out an event like this.

“We have to make sure that we have volunteers, staff, dogs and getting all of our gear together to get out here,” Ellison said.

She said this event is a good opportunity to get Wright-Way’s name out there.

“It seems like a lot of people don’t

“Bangladesh is a really tiny country, it’s about the size of Illinois – it’s actually slightly smaller – yet it has a population of over 165 million people. If you put that into perspective, the United States has a population of about 330 million people,” Ruperto said.

The goal of the art auction is to raise $30,000 and the funds raised will help contribute to providing food, shelter, education and basic necessities to the children in the program, Ruperto said.

“Financial contributions are the way that we ultimately conserve the kids best in Bangladesh and that comes in all kinds of ways. You can buy artwork [or] you can become a wall sponsor,” Ruperto said.

Many people in the community and at SIU volunteer for the event, including an RSO run by president Gabby O’Brien, a senior at Southern Illinois University studying communication disorders and sciences, called Students For

Kids’ Sake.

O’Brien has been involved with For Kids’ Sake since her freshman year and the RSO is dedicated to raising awareness to the events happening in Bangladesh and making it known to the public.

“Organizations like this can help people know the issues that are out there that people might not even know about,” O’Brien said.

Artists between the ages of 4 and 94 years old donated their art to the auction this year, Ruperto said.

“We have a handful of professional artists – it’s primarily kid’s art,” Ruperto said. “It started really as kids helping kids, that’s still really the focus.”

According to Ruperto, the kids get really excited, often coming up to her and asking how many kids their art will be able to help.

Nova Morris, an 8-year-old in second grade at Unity Point, showed her enthusiasm on stage with Ruperto at the event talking about her three projects that are

know who Wright-Way is, but when we come out here we get a lot of support,” Ellison said.

She said this event is good for the dogs socially because they get to see what it is like having a family who takes them out on hikes.

“This year we have NCCC AmeriCorps that is here, and they’re here from all over the United States

that have been helping me in the park,” Randolph-Bollinger said.

“They came today, and it’s a good opportunity for them as well.”

Americorps NCCC is a full-time, residential, team-based program for young adults, age 18–24, which does national and community service, Riley Hipp, Americorps NCCC team member, said.

“Why we’re here is simply because it’s a service learning opportunity,” Hipp said. “This is something we want to do because there’s so many valuable resources and people here.”

Hipp said their group didn’t have to do this, but they wanted to because they worked with dogs.

“This event benefits the dogs because it gives them exercise and potentially a future home,” Randolph-Bollinger said. “It’s a win-win situation for both the volunteers and the dogs.”

Since it is such a popular program, there will be another “Hike with a Homeless Dog” in September, and people can find information on Illinois department of natural resources website for Giant City.

“I would say sign up as soon as possible; we already have people calling for September,” Randolph-Bollinger said. “The sooner the better.”

Staff reporter Emily Cooper can be reached at ecooper@dailyegyptian.com

For Kids’ Sake Art auction looks to fundraise for Bangladeshi kids

Elizabeth Biernacki @EBiernacki_DE

Over 100 artists contributed pieces to this year’s For Kids’ Sake Art Auction.

The auction opened March 23 at Longbranch Cafe, and the art will stay displayed for six weeks.

All the proceeds will be going towards helping orphaned children in Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world, Shema Ruperto, For Kids’ Sake director and art auction coordinator said.

For Kids’ Sake targets helping children, schools and orphanages in Bangladesh, according to the organization’s website.

“Through our assistance, thousands of lives are transformed in one of the poorest countries in the world,” according to the site.

For Kids Sake also strives to create financial sustainability by supporting local cottage industries and providing project managers for on-site leadership training.

Carson VanBuskirk | @CarsonvanDE Elise Warshawsky presents her art alongside For Kids’ Sake Director, Shema Ruperto, at the For Kids’ Sake Art Auction on Friday in Longbranch Cafe and Bakery.

up for auction.

“I made it because I wanted to make people smile,” Morris said.

Ruperto said she firmly believes children are the best advocates for this cause because there is no limit to their desire to help kids their own age.

Community members can

stop by Longbranch until the closing auction on April 26 to bid on art or contribute to the auction.

Staff reporter Elizabeth Biernacki can be reached at ebiernacki@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @EBiernacki_DE.

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Public Policy Institute releases approval ratings for select Illinois officials, Trump

Brandi Courtois | @Brandi_Courtois

The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute has released job performance reviews for a select group of elected officials based on a statewide sample of 1,000 registered voters.

The Simon Poll research, conducted March 11 through March 17, asked voters whether they approved or disapproved of the jobs being done

by Gov. JB Pritzker, President Donald Trump, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, Speaker of the House Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton.

Those polled were asked if they approved, disapproved, didn’t know or if they neither approved nor disapproved of jobs done by elected officials.

Areas surveyed included Chicago, its surrounding suburbs and downstate.

The release said results varied by area and partisan affiliation.

Respondents gave Pritzker, who took office in mid-January, a 40 percent positive job rating and 38 percent disapproved of the job he’s done so far.

At the same point in former Gov. Bruce Rauner’s term, the March 2015 Simon Poll showed a 37 percent approval rating and 31 percent disapproval rating.

President Trump’s job approval, per the survey, was 39 percent positive and 59 percent negative.

Durbin, who is up for re-election next year, held a 51 percent approval rating and a disapproval rating of 41 percent.

Madigan received a 20 percent approval rating and a 71 percent disapproval rating among voters.

24 percent of survey-takers approved of Cullerton’s work in his position, 35 percent disapproved and 35 percent of voters said they did not know enough to rate him.

“Madigan received a 20 percent approval rating and a 71 percent disapproval rating among voters.”

- According to the Simon Poll research

The margin for error, at +/- 3.1 percentage points, means if this survey were conducted again, 95 percent of the population sampled would be within the plus or minus reported margin for error for each sample.

Potential interviewees were screened based on whether they were registered voters and quotas were based on area code and sex, according to the release.

The sample obtained 54 percent male and 46 percent female respondents.

The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute is a member of the American Association for Public Opinion Research Transparency Initiative.

The polling data was archived, according to the release. Data for the institutes’ statewide polls can be viewed in a collection at OpenSIUC. Staff writer Brandi Courtois can be reached at bcourtois@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @Brandi_Courtois.

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Arts & Entertainment

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You’re Dumb and Wrong: Swearing in your articles is unnecessary Jeremy Brown | @JeremyBrown_DE

As articles get more relaxed and conversational in tone (except this prude’s terrible one) many writers lean more on casual speech.

This translates to swear words as replacements for actually fitting adjectives.

I’m not out to make everyone remove swearing from the internet, that’s like taking urine out of a pool.

However, there’s no excuse to exclude the f****** stars any time you’re compelled to swear.

Censor stars work for traditional news articles when using an explicit quote from a source, the same way TV news bleeps out the vowels and blurs an interviewee’s mouth, which, if no one’s been seriously hurt, usually makes the interview funnier.

Stars also don’t remove anything important you’re trying to say.

People who do know what you’re saying will already know what it means. People who don’t know won’t have

to discover it from a s***** article.

Like in Polygon’s review for Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, Arthur Gies writes: “When it comes to controls, responsiveness, weapon handling and team mechanics, Popcap is not f****** around,” Arthur Gies writes in the 2016 article. I put the stars, since it still gets the same point across and it’d defeat my point if I excluded them.

Also because I’d get fired otherwise.

One can argue using these stars comes across clunky when reading. This is true for some, but I promise my writing is clunky regardless.

The alternative to this is to not swear at all. Gies attempts to emphasize his point with swearing.

But it’s still unnecessary for a kids game about corn stalks fighting zombies, since there is always a better way to say what you mean than falling back on f***.

In writing, it makes you sound like you don’t know

“I’m not here to make everyone remove swearing from the internet, that’s like taking urine out of a pool.” other words, as if you don’t have the vocabulary to actually express your thoughts outright.

It’s the same reason people getting frustrated at Apex Legends sound like idiots for cussing out their teammates.

Looking at you, xX_ Wraithslayerr420_Xx.Like if I talk s*** about dumb s***, what makes you give a s*** enough to read the f****** thing?

You know what I mean, but why would anyone prefer that over saying: No one cares why I dislike Red Dead Redemption 2’s open world, so why did anyone choose to read it?

What’s lost in translation?

The word “f******” used as an adjective always boils “very really,” which is also not very

really descriptive, either.

“F***” used as a verb in various conjugations has five meanings I can think of immediately – to have sex, to goof off, to be ruined, to be damaged or to insult.

Using f*** instead of more descriptive or clear words to explain your point devolves language.

English is a pretty f***** up convoluted language as is, but using swear words as replacements for any thing else makes your article weaker and less specific.

Swearing doesn’t need censoring everywhere. It’s an effective way to give a raw scene, play up comedy or explain severity in fiction or entertainment.

Most all of my fiction writing has characters which swear, too.

It disappoints my mom every time she reads what my tuition is paying for.

Movies, games, music, books — these all have regulations so someone knows the content they’re getting in to.

For articles, there’s almost never a threshold, and if someone doesn’t know what you mean when you swear, your point probably won’t make sense at all.

Editor’s note: The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of The Daily Egyptian, its staff or its associates.

You’re Dumb and Wrong is a weekly column about video games, movies and popular entertainment from Arts & Entertainment editor Jeremy Brown. He can be reached at jbrown@dailyegyptian.com.

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Guebert: ‘Us’ is Jordan Peele’s full-length Twilight Zone Kyler Guebert | @kguebert88

Jordan Peele’s directorial debut ‘Get Out’ is one of the finest films of the 21st century thus far. It's a flawless look into what it's like to be black in America blended with the horrors of a terrifying situation. Ever since Peele announced his sophomore outing with ‘Us’, the hype train has been chugging ahead at full speed.

My theatre was actually sold out when I saw it, and the three other added screenings the same night were almost completely, or completely, full as well. People were pumped for this film, and the high Rotten Tomatoes score and online love prior to its release were just adding to the excitement.

For me, Us plays out like a full

length episode of ‘The Twilight Zone’. The concept comes into play rather quickly and the shocks and scares never let up.

However, just like the show, which Peele is rebooting for CBS All Access in a week, Us executes its storyline with sheer perfection but never really explains anything which goes on.

I’m still undecided on if this works for or against the film.

The first half of the film builds up so many questions leave you invested in the film and what we get as an end result leaves so much up to the audience that it doesn’t quite feel satisfying.

Most of the audience figured out the “big twist” ending within the first 15 minutes. One could argue ‘Get Out’s’ twists were also predictable, but there was still enough there to shock us and help

us understand this world better.

This isn’t to say ‘Us’ is a bad movie, either. Jordan Peele has achieved perfection as a director and the editing helps the movie’s pace stay exactly where it needs to be. Plus, the opening sequence is so good and engrossing it immediately brings you into this terrifying and weird reality which Peele has created.

Lupita Nyong’o pulls double duty (along with the entire cast) playing different and terrifying versions of themselves. Her performance reminds me a lot of Toni Collette’s in ‘Hereditary’, another recent horror flick which leaves a lot to the audience to interpret.

Full of terror and love, Nyong’o jumps off the screen and elevates the film, making you really care about everything

which is happening, especially when you don’t understand it.

Winston Duke brings comedic chops exactly when the film needs it. The child cast also amaze, and hopefully both will get more work after this film is over.

As a close friend to Nyong’o and Duke’s family, Elisabeth Moss brings a supporting performance filled with both humor and horror. The score and soundtrack are also both insanely good, bringing more suspense to an already terrifying story.

Sophomore slumps are very common for filmmakers and screenwriters, especially if their first film is as highly regarded as ‘Get Out’ was. And ‘Us’ is no ‘Get Out’. It lacks something – perhaps requires multiple viewings.

Despite the lack of mystery

and the overall lackluster vibe the third act of the film gives off, ‘Us’ demands to be seen. It’s a perfect blend of horror and comedy with performances which elevate the film above its flaws.

Something is missing, whether it be full explanation for the events or just a simple hint to help the audience understand what is going on and how everything fits together.

‘Us’ is like a puzzle with one missing piece. You still get the entire picture and appreciate it for what it is, but it still isn’t complete without the last piece to make the entire picture come to life and understand exactly what it is that the film wants you to see.

this dramatically inert film tries, but ultimately says almost nothing at all.

“Dumbo” fulfills the checklist Disney remakes these days require: a young heroine interested in science, a dead mother, a father scarred by war. It inexplicably warps an inherently archaic story premise into politically correct revisionist history with a relevant message, suggesting that in the exploitative, bullying world of 1920s circuses, wildlife conservation was also a concern.

But within this rigid Disney formula are a few flickers of resistance. Burton makes his signature stamp, manifested here in the visual design.

And journeyman screenwriter Ehren Kruger’s script shockingly contains shades of subversion and anarchy,

a little bit of rage against the machine. But everything seems dulled down, sharp edges blunted.

Burton dutifully dispenses with the quick hits of the “Dumbo” story within the first act, hitting each point in a manner that is perfunctory at best: mama elephant Jumbo, baby elephant Dumbo, big ears, bullying, jeers, feathers, flying.

The film also gives us Milly (Nico Parker), her brother, Joe (Finley Hobbins), and dad, Holt (Colin Farrell). The family, reunited after Holt lost his arm in World War I and their mother lost her life to influenza, rally around the young elephant as his protectors.

Before long Burton has scrapped the iconic (but problematic) crows for Collette (Eva Green), a French trapeze artist, and Vandevere (Michael Keaton), a sniveling, snidely

theme park entrepreneur — a nefarious Walt Disney type, one could say. He’s snapped up the mom-and-pop Medici Bros. circus that discovered Dumbo and folded it into his Dreamland empire, hoping to turn a generous profit and attract highrolling investors. Talk about mergers and acquisitions.

What is remarkable is somehow Burton and Kruger managed to make an anticorporate, anti-capitalist, pro-labor, environmentalist, circus-themed horror movie out of a Disney-produced “Dumbo” remake. Despite all that, this iteration of “Dumbo” doesn’t achieve liftoff. The characters are barely sketched and the story transitions don’t work at all. The tone never finds its groove, the CGI-live action blend is an uncanny valley hellscape, and the

performances are merely serviceable. While Green and Farrell are fun to watch, Keaton goes full throttle “Scooby-Doo” villain.

Strangest of all is Burton doesn’t bother to extract any emotion. This could be merciful when it comes to the wrenching scenes where Dumbo keens for his mother (the “Baby Mine” lullaby is thankfully brief), but because we don’t really care about anyone, it’s impossible to sustain interest in any of the action that transpires during the film’s incredibly dull climax.

We’ve now seen enough of these Disney remakes, seemingly made by committee, that it comes as no surprise that an auteur such as Burton was subsumed into a machine that chewed up his aesthetic and spit out four-quadrant pleasing pablum. Unfortunately, this “Dumbo” goes splat.

Staff reporter Kyler Guebert can be reached at kguebert@dailyegyptian.

Movie review: Stretched thin, ‘Dumbo’ doesn’t achieve liftoff Katie Walsh| Tribune News Service

Disney’s 1941 animated feature “Dumbo,” about the little circus elephant who could fly, left some deep emotional wounds. It’s one of Disney’s most devastating films. But it was also aesthetically daring, almost avant-garde, and ahead of its time, rich with intense pathos and visual innovation.

Thanks to “The Greatest Showman,” circus culture is hot right now.

So of course “Dumbo” has been given the live-action retrofit, this time courtesy of offbeat auteur Tim Burton, who has tackled a few beloved children’s properties (“Alice in Wonderland,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”). On paper, there’s so much potential, but the result is a strange amalgamation of influences and agendas. Stretched thin,

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Two-year-old Aniyah Mchenry, of Carbondale, reacts on Saturday, March 23, 2019 during the Under The Sea Pageant at the University Mall.

Pretty in Pink: Pageant gives children a chance to shine Story by: Elizabeth Biernacki Photos by: Isabel Miller

Brooklyn Lappin’s favorite part of her Saturday was her pretty pink dress and having all the attention on her.

The Under the Sea Pageant held by Sunburst Beauty Pageants returned to the University Mall in Carbondale on Saturday, March 23.15 contestants, newborns to 16 years olds, competed for the title of overall queen or king and to move on to the state finals in Bloomington, Illinois.

The four-year-old from Marion competed with two other girls for the Pee-Wee title for girls in the four to six year old range.

“This is her first [pageant] actually, we heard about it through a friend and she decided that she wanted to wear a pretty dress and she wanted to do it,” Kaitlyn Lappin, Brooklyn’s mother, said. “She likes being a princess.”

Linda Ellis, director and owner of Sunburst Beauty Pageant, is an advocate for

young girls and boys being a part of pageants like this one.

“Calling it a beauty pageant is a little bit deceptive because beauty doesn’t mean necessarily physical beauty,” Ellis said. “There’s a lot of different types of beauty; there’s beauty from within, there’s growth and the beauty that comes from that growth.”

The contestants are scored in three different categories: facial beauty, overall appearance and personality.

All contestants qualified for the May 24 state finals.

For Kaley Evelyn Luna, a 15-year-old high school student and state queen from Evanston, pageantry is a way to be more outgoing.

“I wasn’t really confident when I was younger, I was more of a shy girl, but after the time I won and I knew I could do it, I decided to be more social to other people,” Luna said.

Luna has been competing in pageants since she was 12 years old and said beauty pageants are nothing like what’s shown on reality TV shows like “Toddlers

and Tiaras.”

Ellis said she knew a girl who had been on the show and the producers purposely made her frustrated.

“They made [her] walk through a door 20 times normally, but eventually she got sick of it and stomped out yelling ‘I don’t wanna do this anymore’ and that’s the shot they used,” Ellis said.

Ellis said children who participate tend to enjoy being a part of the pageants and kids who don’t probably haven’t done it before and probably won’t do it again.

“When you don’t enjoy doing something, when you get up on stage, you’re not going to shine, you’re not going to give your best,” Ellis said.

Ellis said pageants help build confidence in children.

“A lot of our contestants we see, from little tiny girls that are shy and holding onto their mom’s leg when they get up on stage,” Ellis said, “when the time comes for them to graduate, they’re making speeches in front of their class

10-month-old Graysen Cospenknan-King, of Ziegler, with his crowns on Saturday during the Under The Sea Pageant at the University Mall.

and they attribute that directly to pageants.”

Ellis said pageants actually teach children valuable lessons and skills.

“It’ll teach [Brooklyn] whether she wins or loses, she’s a princess,” Lappin said. “She’s so happy being in this dress and that’s all that matters.”

By the end, Brooklyn pulled through and won queen in her age category. Brooklyn stepped off the stage with a smile on her face.

Staff reporter Elizabeth Biernacki can be reached at ebiernacki@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @EBiernacki_DE.

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Brooklyn Lappin, of Carbondale, waits to get her crown on Saturday during the Under The Sea Pageant at the University Mall.

One-year-old Kenadie Batrick, of Pesotum, and her father, Sean Batrick after receiving her rewards on Saturday during the Under The Sea Pageant at the University Mall.

Two-year-old Aniyah Mchenry, of Carbondale, gets a kiss from her mother on Saturday during the Under The Sea Pageant at the University Mall. It was Aniyah’s first pageant.

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In the War Room with Warfel: Opening Day should be a national holiday Adam Warfel | @warfel_adam

Baseball is as American as apple pie and if we can celebrate President’s Day, which is literally the government’s way of saying happy birthday to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, then why can’t we celebrate a sport which has ingrained itself in American culture since the Civil War? While baseball has some early references, such as in 1792 in Massachusetts and 1823 in Greenwich Village outside of New York, baseball under the rules we know today started in 1845 with the New York Knickerbockers.

By 1857, 16 New York area clubs formed the National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP) it was the first league of its kind to govern the sport and establish a championship.

During the Civil War years, between 1861 and 1865, a time where America was in turmoil and brothers were fighting each other for their cause, baseball brought Americans together.

The NABBP grew exponentially during the Civil War years, expanding from the 16 to almost 100 by 1865 and over 400 by 1867.

The Civil War is where the game really began to get its start as soldiers from across the country met and played the game together, thus expanding it all the way west to California.

While the Civil War helped to grow the idea of baseball among Americans, World War I caused a slight decline in the sport. As men went off to war, minor league systems began to shut down in 1917.

When Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, issued a “work or fight” order requiring men who were draft eligible and in “non-essential” jobs to join the military, many fans of baseball were concerned of the sport dying.

Government officials decided to not view baseball as a “nonessential” career, but Baker showed how the athletes could better serve the United States on the battlefield, thus baseball players had to serve too.

Baseball did not die with World War I, however, and as the next war loomed, baseball was beginning to peak. Once again, though, many of baseball’s best players opted to serve their country instead of dueling it out on the field.

The likes of Stan Musial, Bob Feller, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Warren Spahn ,Yogi Berra and Pee Wee Reese all answered the call to fight for America in World War II. With most of the stars out of baseball, fans were worried, but in 1942, commissioner of baseball Kenesaw M. Landis sent a letter to president Franklin Delano Roosevelt asking if they should plan for another season of baseball.

The president’s response to Landis has become known as the “Green Light Letter,” in which Roosevelt said, “I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going.”

During World War II, history was made in baseball as boxing and the NFL were one of the few sports to allow African Americans to play, but in 1947 Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier for the MLB. On April 15, 1947 when the Brooklyn Dodgers started

Robinson at first base, he officially became the first African American to play on the major league level.

Jump forward to the 21st century with 9/11, a day any American who was alive will always remember as the two jets crashed into the World Trade Center.

MLB cancelled all of its games the following day, but the owners realized that the sport brought unity and a month and a half later, the New York Yankees were playing in the World Series.

It was game three at Yankee Stadium and President George W. Bush walked out to throw the honorary first pitch just a month and a half later after the attacks.

At that moment as he walked to the mound wearing a FDNY jacket, the crowd erupted in recognition of the moment. Before he even threw the pitch, Bush gave the thumbs up to all the fans in attendance as if the sign of everything is okay.

Baseball has been and always will be America’s favorite national pastime, and in times of crises in American history, baseball has always been there.

Trough tirals and triumph, baseball has brought people together. It has brought unity it has brought a sense of patriotism. If you fail to recognize that the sport of baseball embodies more than just a bat, a ball and some bases then you will never understand why opening day should be a national holiday.

Sports editor Adam Warfel can be reached at awarfel@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @warfel_adam.

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NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16: What to know and who to watch Shannon Ryan | Chicago Tribune

Cinderella didn’t show up to the NCAA Tournament this year.

It’s a chalky Sweet 16.

The first two rounds have produced few upsets, leaving the bracket mostly with seeds 1 through 4. The only lower-seeded team is No. 12 Oregon. Here’s a look at the Sweet 16 matchups: EAST REGION No. 1 Duke vs. No. 4 Virginia Tech (7:39 p.m., Friday) Virginia Tech already beat Duke this year, taking down the Blue Devils 77-72 on Feb. 26. But Duke was missing star Zion Williamson, who was out with a knee injury. The Blue Devils have been rolling since his return, narrowly escaping UCF in the second round. They average 83.5 points per game.

Of teams left in the tournament, Virginia Tech owns the best 3-point shooting at 39.4 percent. The Hokies made 7 of 16 in their second-round victory against Liberty and made 8 of 26 in their previous meeting against the Blue Devils.

Players to watch Duke: Who else? Zion Williamson. The 6-foot-7 Duke freshman is averaging 28.5 points in the first two tournament games.

Virginia Tech: Kerry Blackshear Jr., a 6-10 junior forward, will need to hold his own against Duke. He hit 11 of 12 free throws and scored 15 points to beat Saint Louis in the first round and made 8 of 19 from the floor to help defeat Liberty in the second round.

Advantage: Duke.

No. 3 LSU vs. No. 2 Michigan State (5:09 p.m., Friday) Michigan State is playing loose after advancing to the Sweet 16 for the first time since its 2015 Final Four run. The Spartans need to take better care of the ball after turning it over 22 times against Minnesota in the second round.

LSU has persevered with its coach, Will Wade, suspended after being linked to FBI wiretaps as part of the college basketball corruption scandal. The SEC regular-season champions have escaped two close tournament games: beating No. 14 Yale 79-74 and then No. 6 Maryland 69-67.

Players to watch Michigan State: Cassius Winston, the Big Ten player of the year, has been as dependable as ever. In a tight first-round game against Bradley, the junior point guard scored 26 points. He had 13 points with 11 assists to destroy Minnesota.

LSU: Tremont Waters’ layup with 1.6 seconds left lifted the Tigers over Maryland. The sophomore guard leads LSU with 15 points and 5.9 assists per game.

Advantage: Michigan State.

WEST REGION No. 1 Gonzaga vs. No. 4 Florida State (5:09 p.m., Thursday) Who doesn’t love a rematch?

The Seminoles upset the Zags during last season’s Sweet 16.

Florida State is coming off a 90-62 dismantling of Murray State in which 10 players scored, showing off the Seminoles’ depth. The Bulldogs are making their fifth straight Sweet 16, but their fans are eager to see them win a national championship.

They average 88.8 points per game — more than any other team in the tournament.

Players to watch Gonzaga: Brandon Clarke can put on a show with windmill dunks and two-handed jams. The junior forward dropped 36 points with eight rebounds, five blocks and three assists to beat Baylor.

Florida State: Mfiondu Kabengele, a 6-10 forward, averaged 13.4 points during the regular season, but he’s averaging 21.5 points in the tournament.

Advantage: Gonzaga.

No. 2 Michigan vs. No. 3 Texas Tech (7:39 p.m., Thursday) The Red Raiders and Wolverines have the two most efficient defenses in the nation.

Michigan hasn’t allowed an opponent to score 70 points since Feb. 26. Texas Tech has held its first two tournament opponents to 57.5 points.

Players to watch Michigan: Ignas Brazdeikis is only 1 of 7 on 3-pointers in the tournament. In the Big Ten Tournament, the 6-7 freshman forward hit 43.8 percent of 3s. In other words: he’s due.

Texas Tech: Sophomore Jarrett Culver, a 6-5 guard, scored 29 points in the opening win against Northern Kentucky and then 16 points against Buffalo.

Advantage: Michigan.

MIDWEST REGION No. 1 Virginia vs. No. 12 Oregon (7:57 p.m., Thursday) The Cavaliers put last season’s first-round upset loss to UMBC behind them and can focus on winning a title with a team that is deeper and more talented than last year’s.The Ducks aren’t the same team they were midseason.

They’ve won 10 in a row and ran away with the Pac-12 Tournament title.

Players to watch Virginia: When Kyle Guy struggled to score against Oklahoma in the second round, Mamadi Diakite stepped up with 14 points with nine rebounds. In the first round, the 6-9 forward posted 17 points and nine rebounds to help beat Gardner-Webb.

Oregon: Payton Pritchard, a junior guard, has scored at least

18 points in each game since the Pac-12 quarterfinals.

Advantage: Virginia.

No. 2 Tennessee vs. No. 3 Purdue (5:29 p.m., Thursday) This is the second straight Big Ten opponent for Tennessee, which defeated Iowa in overtime in the second round. The Volunteers have five players averaging double figures and the team averages 82.3 points per game. Carsen Edwards led the Boilermakers with 42 points on 12-of-21 shooting with 9 3-pointers to help the Boilermakers take down defending champion Villanova in the second round.

Players to watch Purdue: Matt Haarms scored 18 points with nine rebounds to beat ‘Nova. The 7-3 sophomore center must battle against the Vols’ big men.

Tennessee: Admiral Schofield, a versatile 6-6 guard, has scored 19 points in each of the first two tournament games.

Advantage: Tennessee.

SOUTH REGION No. 1 North Carolina vs. No. 5 Auburn (5:20 p.m., Friday) Auburn has won 10 straight, including two against Tennessee and another against Kansas (second round). The Tigers were a surprise to win the SEC Tournament after finishing fourth in the regular season.The Tar Heels have struggled in the first half of their two tournament games before breezing to victories. They’ll need a complete game to beat Auburn.

Players to watch Auburn: Bryce Brown scored 25 to beat Kansas in the second round, hitting 7 of 10 3-pointers.

North Carolina: Luke Maye, a senior forward, scored 20 points to beat Iona. He has been known to shine during tournament time.

Advantage: North Carolina.

No. 2 Kentucky vs. No. 3 Houston (7:57 p.m., Friday) Kentucky star PJ Washington’s status (ankle) is still uncertain.

The Wildcats defense bailed them out when their offense struggled against Wofford in the second round.Houston’s defense impresses. The Cougars have the best defensive field-goal percentage (36.7 percent), rank second in 3-point percentage defense (27.6 percent) and seventh in scoring defense (61.1 points per game).

Players to watch Kentucky: Senior forward Reid Travis is shooting 65 percent in the tournament.

Houston: Senior guard Corey Davis Jr. is thriving, scoring game highs of 26 points against Georgia State and 21 against Ohio State.

Advantage: Houston.

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Track and Field: Seniors shine winning five of nine titles at Bill Cornell Classic Taamar Mosby | @mosbytamar

Southern took nine titles at this year’s Bill Cornell Classic – the seniors snagging five, as the Dawgs open their outdoor season at the Lew Hartzog Track and Field Complex in Carbondale.

The Classic is named in honor of threetime All-American and two-time NCAA Runner-Up Bill Cornell. After a successful competitive career Cornell went on to coach Southern from 1982-2000.

Cornell was named the MVC Coach of the Year nine times while coaching the Salukis and coached 21 All-Americans, four Olympians, three NCAA champions and one NCAA runner-up. The former coach passed away in 2016 after fighting a long battle against Parkinson’s Disease.

Not only does classic honor Cornell, it also served as a moment for the Salukis to honor their senior athletes.

The 17 seniors honored at the meet included Nate Dyer, Matthew Bigelow, Gunnar Galloway, Isaac Wingerter, Tyjuana Eason, Megan Krolak, Alicia Reed, Sasha Lanning, Josh Maier, Kevin Turner, Mitchell Bland, Bri’Anna Branch, Cain Hassim, Ricky Hurley, Adam Kessler, Justine Paton and Luca Palasti.

Southern hosted ten teams at this weekend’s meet with three of them being members of the MVC. In this meet, the Dawgs won nine event titles along with 17 top three finishes and four Top Ten outdoor school marks.

Four of SIU’s top nine finishes and five of the Top-Three finishes came from the Saluki throwers as the men swept all three of the throwing events –shot put, hammer throw, and discus.

Senior Ricky Hurley earned the first title of the meet when he threw 48.59 meters to win the discus event on Friday. On Saturday, Hurley placed second in the hammer throw and third in the shot put behind his teammates.

Senior Adam Kessler took the win in the shot put on Saturday after throwing a personal best distance of 19.52 meters.

This toss moved Kessler up to number three on the Saluki All-Time list.

The final win to complete the thrower sweep came on a 61.04 meter throw in the hammer from senior Nate Dyer.

On the women’s side, A’Veun Moore took home a first place finish in the shot put after she threw a personal best length of 15.73 meters. This throw placed Moore in the Top Ten on the Saluki All-Time List.

Moore’s teammates Kayleigh Conlon and Sian Person finished in the second and third position.

In the women’s hammer, sophomore Shauniece O’Neal was the top collegiate performer as she finished in second place with a toss of 60.40 meters. O’Neal placed behind her volunteer coach and olympian DeAnna Price who won the event with a 74.47 meter throw.

In this meet, the Dawgs won nine event titles along with 17 top three finishes and four Top Ten outdoor school marks.

Seniors Bri’Anna Branch and Tyjuana Eason led the way for women’s sprints as Branch took home the title in the 100 meter dash with a time of 11.88 seconds and Eason took home the title in the 200 meter dash clocking a time of 24.40 seconds.

Both of these women were members of the first place 400 meter relay team along with juniors Maddison Meyer and Genesis Ewell. The group ran a time of 45.45 which is the fourth best time in program history.

Meyer earned her second first place finish of the day as she earned the 100 meter hurdles title running a time of 14.34. Fellow teammate junior Savannah Long also earned a hurdle title as she won the 400 meter hurdles with a time of 1:00.65.

Corey Sherrod led the men’s sprints as he earned three top-three finishes in his debut as a Saluki. Sherrod placed second in the 400 meter dash, third in the 200 meter dash, and was a member of the third place men’s 400 meter relay.

In the men’s steeplechase sophomore Theo Hassim clocked a time of 9:54.81 to finish second in the event, while Kayla Schiera finished second in the women’s steeple running the eight best time in program history.

Senior Josh Maier topped off the distance title as he took home a second place finish in the 1500 meter run with a personal best time of 3:48.52.

Junior Willie Rodgers was Southern’s top finisher in the high jump as he earned a second place finish with a personal best jump of 2.05 meters, while his teammate Caleb Vogel finished in third.

In the women’s high jump senior Justine Paton earned a third place finish after clearing a jump of 1.63 meters.

Sophomore pole vaulter Kyle Zeinemann was the runner up in his event on Saturday, while senior triple jumper Mitchell Bland was the second runner up in his.

The Salukis will be in action on separate tracks next weekend as half of the team will compete at the Raleigh Relays, hosted by North Carolina States and the other half at the Bobcat Invite, hosted by Texas State.

Sports reporter Tamar Mosby can be reached at tmosby@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @mosbytamar.

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Saluki freshman infielder Ashley Wood hits the ball on Friday, Feb. 22, during the Salukis 1-0 win against the Creighton Jays at Charlotte West Stadium.

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Saluki softball sweeps Valpo in three Tamar Mosby | @MostbyTamar

SIU Softball hosted the Valparaiso University Crusaders for a three game series last weekend at the Charlotte West Stadium.

The Dawgs had met with Valpo three times prior to this weekend, leading the Crusaders 2-1 in the all-time series. Last season when the two teams met, SIU split the series with the Indiana team walking away with one win and one loss.

This weekend, Southern swept the Crusaders three games to bring their current MVC record into the winning column at 5-3.

Game 1 The first game of the series took place on Saturday at noon and proved to be a quick one as the Dawgs went to work early.

In the first inning, Valpo started strong, scoring one run and keeping Southern scoreless.

With the Crusaders unable to score in the top of the second, the Salukis found their footing extremely well as they scored ten runs in the bottom of the inning.

During this inning, Southern made it through 14 batters with nine of them recording hits.

The Crusaders had no answer for SIU the remainder of the game, but this did not make the Dawgs let up as they went on to score ten more runs in the remaining two innings to give them 20 total at the end of the game.

"We've scored 16 runs this year and now 20 runs," Saluki head coach Kerri Blaylock said. "This is what makes me so

frustrated, at times, with this team. We are a good offensive club if we keep our head about it. We have to understand we can't do it all the time, so if someone has our number one time through the order, that's okay. We're going to be okay."

Junior infielder Kyleigh Decker led the way for Southern Illinois in this game, going three-for-three in batting with a two-run home run, four runs scored, a walk and three RBIs. Freshman infielder Ashley Wood and junior infielder Maddy Vermejan were also key players in this game. Wood went two-for-two in batting with one double, one walk and five RBIs, while Vermejan scored her first solo homer of the year.

Senior Briana Jones was at the mound for the Salukis for all five innings, only allowing one run on five hits. The senior stud also struck out six batters in the process.

Southern’s 20-1 win marked the first 20 run game for the program since 1993.

Game 2 Game two was also played on Saturday, but this one proved to be tough, long and very close for the Dawgs.

Unlike the previous game, this one lasted for eight innings with SIU barely scratching out a win with a score of 5-4.

The Crusaders were silent and scoreless for the first two innings of the game, while the Salukis were able to put up one run in each of the innings.

Both of these runs came on RBIs from Wood and sophomore outfielder Maris Boelens.

Junior Claire Miller started at the mound for the Dawgs, but was relieved

in the fourth inning by sophomore Holly Marousek after Valpo scored four straight runs in the top of the inning. Marousek held the Crusaders to one hit and no runs until she was relieved by Jones in the seventh inning.

"I told Holly, she settled us down and kept us right there," Blaylock said. "With Bri having thrown right around 70 pitches in game one, it allowed me to go to Bri in the seventh."

In the bottom of the sixth inning, things heated up for Southern when Boelens came up to bat and singled a two run RBI down the middle of the field to tie the game at 4-4.

“That hit was huge," Blaylock said.

"She sat the bench in the first game and was called on in the second game. She's been battling kidney stones off and on for three weeks and that was huge moment for her."

Sophomore Megan Brown was SIU’s saving grace in the bottom of the eighth as she slammed the first walk-off homer of her career out of the field to break the tie and win the game 5-4.

"I didn’t pick a side of the plate like I knew if it was in or out of the strike zone," Brown said. "If it was a strike I was going to sell out and was going to either hit it or miss it. I just happened to get a good piece of it and it went out of the ballpark."

Brown went three-for-four in hitting with one RBI and one run scored.

Game 3 The third and final game of the series was played Sunday at noon.

The Salukis started off strong, scoring one run in the first inning and two in

the second. While Southern’s batters were sparking up the offense, Jones was keeping the Crusaders in check on defense, only allowing one run in the five innings she pitched.

The first run of the game was scored

by Vermejan as she advanced to first after being hit by a pitch, stole second and was batted in by Wood.

The second run came on another solo homer from Brown, giving her two on the weekend.

Another solo homer in the bottom of the second inning by senior first baseman Jordan Spicer put the Dawgs up 3-0 entering the third inning.

After a Valpo run in the top of the third and two scoreless innings for Southern, the score sat at 3-1 with the Dawgs still ahead.

Two RBIs in the fifth and sixth innings from SIU put the Dawgs up 5-1 with just one inning to go.

In the seventh and final inning the Crusaders (9-13, MVC 1-5) were able to string together two more runs, but it was not enough to take the lead and the Salukis came out with the 5-3 win.

"Sunday can be interesting every weekend because they've seen our pitchers multiple times," Blaylock said.

"Sometimes its survival of the fittest. I’m just proud of them that we finished it out."

SIU Softball will take the field again this Wednesday in the Charlotte West Stadium at 4 p.m. as they take on the UT Martin Skyhawks.

Sports reporter Tamar Mosby can be reached at tmosby@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @mosbytamar.

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