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Timberwolves come Grand opening of back to Mankato new campus building YOONKI KIM

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Minnesota Timberwolves training camp began this weekend, and today owner Glen Taylor will share some of his background and feelings about the decades he has spent connected to Minnesota State. Taylor will also enlighten listeners with his knowledge of both business and sport industries. He will speak at 11 a.m. in CSU 284 ABC.

See page 9 for more Timberwolves coverage

Minnesota State held a grand opening celebration of its Center of Renewable Energy Research Thursday.

Students, faculty, staff and the public were invited to join at the celebratory event. Because of rain, the event took place inside the main doors of the new building instead of the nearby parking lot where the event was originally arranged.

The $1.8 million, 6,300-square-foot Center of Renewable Energy has been under construction since Nov. 2009 on the northwest corner of campus, near Wiecking Center.

President Richard Davenport, Minnesotan legislators, including Senator Kathy Sheran and other contributors, attended the opening ceremony.

“We’re grateful to the Minnesota Legislature, the federal government and the many private donors for making this new building possible,” Davenport said. “It gives our

faculty and students cuttingedge tools to do top-level green energy research and testing.

That in turn will stimulate growth and development in biofuels and related fields, keeping Minnesota at the top of the list of alternative energy innovators.”

CEO of BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota and keynote speaker Dale Wahlstrom discussed the importance of renewable energy. “Fossil sources are beginning to dry up,” Wahlstrom said.

He said he believes the establishment of the center will bring a huge change to the future.

About 4,800-square-feet of the center will be used by the Minnesota Center for Automotive Research (MnCAR), to test vehicle emissions when from different fuels and hybrid systems. Another 1,500-squarefeet is for the International Renewable Energy Technology Institute (IRETI) which tests

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New Beginnings STAYING HOME FOR THE GAME

Fewer people going to bars to watch football, fantasy football popularity increasing

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MSU President Richard Davenport, administrators and legislators broke ground Thursday at the site of the new residence hall that is set to be completed in 2012. Gage towers will be torn down upon its completion and will become a parking lot to combat space issues.

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Sweatshirts, not sweatshops (2) Blast from the past (3) Segway owner dies on Segway (5) Davenport strips for cash (7) Mav Football suffers 1st loss (9)

The return of NFL football each year is something that local bars and restaurants try to take advantage of to give an extra boost to business.

However, relatively inexpensive highdefinion televisions, as well as the ever-growing popularity of fantasy football, has more people staying home to watch games than in years past.

Though bars and restaurants still see

good crowds on major NFL game days, recent trends in Mankato show that more fans are choosing to save money by staying at home to watch their favorite teams do battle on the gridiron.

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Jeff Kuchenbecker, operating manager of Buster’s Sports Bar in Mankato, is one retailer feeling the effects.

“NFL football in bars is not what it used to be,” said Kuchenbecker, who’s worked in the bar and restaurant industry for 12 years.

“Before high-def flat screen TVs and projectors became affordable everybody would go to a bar to watch the games because we had the best of the best TVs, but now anyone can go out and get

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Sweatshirts not made in sweatshops

OPENING Laboratories will seek Environmental Protection Agency certification

Alta Gracia apparel, sold at Barnes & Nobel, pays workers fair wages where other manufacturers won’t

combustible solid fuel and heating units.

In the two laboratories, students and faculty researchers will test the emissions and efficiency of engines, stoves and boilers for residential and commercial buildings. The facility will also help IRETI conduct research for the development and prototyping for the production of renewable energy.

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Starting this year, buying hoodies and T-shirts can help clothe an entire family living thousands of miles away. A new partnership between apparel manufacturer Alta Gracia and Barnes & Noble College Booksellers means that every purchase can change a person’s life.

Alta Gracia apparel is a new brand of T-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies that are manufactured in one of the first factories that pays its workers enough to enable them to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, health care and education for themselves and their families. Several hundred U.S. university and college bookstores will be carrying Alta Gracia apparel this fall and winter. Most have it in their stores right now and available for online purchase.

Alta Gracia’s apparel is already on the racks of the clothing section of the on-campus Barnes & Noble.

Molly Yunkers, assistant manager of the on-campus Barnes and Noble, said Alta Gracia’s clothing has been in the store since the end of August.

“People are finding them and they like the feel of the shirts and pick them over other shirts,” Yunkers said.

“It’s softer cotton.”

The Alta Gracia apparel is manufactured in the Dominican Republic where every employee receives benefits, a living wage and

the assurance of a safe and healthy workplace. The Alta Gracia living wage is more than 340 percent of the Dominican Republic’s minimum wage for apparel workers.

The Worker Rights Consortium, the labor rights watchdog with which over 175 U.S. colleges and universities are affiliated, has certified that the payment is sufficient to cover the expenses for a family of four, including a wage that pays for food, water, housing, energy, clothing, health care, transportation, childcare and education.

The WRC monitors conditions at the factory and has verified that the workers are being paid properly and that their rights are being respected.

“For a major retailer like Barnes & Noble to lend its enthusiastic support to this initiative is very heartening,” said Scott Nova of the WRC. Alta Gracia is the result of a multi-year project involving Knights Apparel, independent labor right groups, NGO’s health and safety experts and Barnes and Noble.

“We are very proud to be a part of this endeavor and to offer our students another opportunity to purchase high-quality merchandise that was manufactured with a high regard for workers rights,” said Carrie Uekcer, the manager of Barnes & Noble at Minnesota State.

Even though Alta Gracia’s clothing costs 20 percent

continued from 1 The university will pursue Environmental Protection Agency certification for both laboratories.

According to Environmental Protection Agency guidelines, he MnCAR laboratory is the only research facility in the area that can perform biodiesel, ethanol, hybrid and other biofuel engines tests according to Environmental Protection Agency guidelines.

internet photo Alta Gracia sweatshirts are similar in price to other sweatshirt brands, but the company pays workers better wages than most apparel factories.

more to produce compared to other apparel makers, it doesn’t have a retail price higher than other brands.

It also does not ask the retailers to absorb the price gap.

Alta Gracia and Barnes & Noble send out press releases and arrange press conferences to promote their products and help people understand why what the company is doing matters. In addition, Alta Gracia arranges individual interviews with some of its workers to check in on them and even provides a translator.

How long Alta Gracia will last is unclear because the company won’t survive if the sales result makes poor progress.

“Since this is so new we don’t know how this line will go,” Uekcer said.

dan moen • msu reporter President Davenport cut the ribbon at the grand opening ceremony.

The MSSA will be holding an election for the following positions:

Undeclared (1) Off Campus (1) Elections will be held Wed., October 6 @ 4:00pm in CSU 238

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Swinging back in time...

Students dressed the part of the early 1900s during the formal dance held by the MSU Swing Dance Club.

Club members taught other students their moves at the dance Thursday. photos by katie erickson

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EDITORIAL: Pawn takes king ... and queen

If you’ve been walking around campus this week and felt there was something missing, you’re right, there is. This past weekend, which happened to be Family Weekend here at Minnesota State, skateboard punks thieved everyone’s favorite new campus giant board game.

The white queen and king were taken from the giant chessboard directly outside the Centennial Student Union.

According to MSU officials, the skateboarders took the pieces and headed toward the Julia Sears dormitory before being chased by, and eventually eluding, campus security.

Campus officials say they have no leads surrounding the theft of the chess pieces, which reportedly cost the university $70 a piece. Furthermore, the white queen is reportedly out of stock, which could mean no chess until sometime in the Spring semester.

While the image of a couple of Hollister Topic-clad, backwards-sideways-hat-wearing Rufio wannabes eluding some overweight, donut-chomping security guards is hilarious; the repercussions of this rapacity are not as rich.

Now I, and I’m sure many of you, have done a fair share

of idiotic vandalism in the past, but usually the damage and consequences are confined to various signage and the owners of said signs, resulting in a simple paint patch. But this bit of recreation robbery affects all those who have been enjoying what has become a very used, and enjoyed, addition to the mall area of MSU. Back in our first issue in August, we joked that this would happen, but thanks to the tender, love and care CSU officials have put towards the chess board’s upkeep and safety, it hadn’t happened until they put it out for its first Saturday appearance for the enjoyment of those visiting for Family Weekend.

Scott Hagebak, the man who brought the chessboard, arguably as great of an addition to the CSU as the removal of the smoking lounge was horrible, said he hopes the pieces will be returned, and if they are, no questions or punitive actions will be put forth to those returning them.

“People make dumb mistakes, and that’s fine,” Hagebak said. “Getting [the chess pieces] back is the most important thing.”

wale agboola• msu reporter The white king and queen were stolen from the chessboard over Family Weekend.

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Segway CEO dies on Segway Owner drives off cliff

LONDON (AP) — All police found at the bottom of a cliff was a man’s body in a frigid river and a Segway, the twowheeled electric device that was supposed to revolutionize personal transport.

It was Jimi Heselden, a one-time laid-off coal miner turned self-made millionaire who had bought the Segway company only 10 months earlier. He apparently fell to his death while riding one of the sleek black-and-silver scooters.

Authorities said Monday his body was found in the River Wharfe at the base of a 30-foot cliff.

Details remained sketchy — police say only that the death was not suspicious, meaning foul play is not suspected — but the incident seems certain to raise fresh questions about the safety of the Segway, which is banned on British motorways and in some U.S. cities because of safety concerns.

A witness reported seeing a man fall Sunday over a 30-foot drop into the river near the village of Boston Spa, 140 miles (225 kilometers) north of London. The remote, heavily forested area, not far from

Heselden’s country estate, is popular with hikers.

A family spokesman released a statement saying the “exact circumstances of the accident are still being clarified and will, of course, be the subject of an inquest.” The family “has been left devastated by the sudden and tragic loss of a muchloved father and husband,” the spokesman said.

Somber family members visited the accident site Monday — placing wreaths — but they asked for privacy.

Heselden, a high school dropout who went on to make a fortune developing a blast wall system used to protect troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, never abandoned his gritty roots. He used his money to help people in the working-class area around Leeds where he grew up, earning folk hero status there.

The 62-year-old Heselden had bought control of the Bedford, N.H.-based Segway in December.

The company’s unique two-wheeler was introduced with much fanfare in 1999 by its American founder, Dean Kamen, as a means of transport that was more protective of

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the environment than other scooters and automobiles. The company claims the Segway is 11 times more efficient than the average American car. It can be used indoors because it has no emissions, making it popular with some police departments and private security firms, who use it to patrol indoor malls.

But it has also been linked to some high-profile mishaps.

President George W. Bush famously tried one out in 2003 at his family’s estate in Maine, but the machine toppled over when he tried to get on it. Celebrity journalist Piers Morgan also took a tumble on one — the video can be seen on YouTube, along with dozens of other Segway mishaps.

Heselden’s death prompted new questions about the safety record of the battery-powered Segway, which is stabilized by gyroscopes and can travel at speeds up to 12.5 mph (20 kph).

The company recalled all its U.S. vehicles in 2006 because of a software problem that could make its wheels reverse direction, causing riders to fall off.

New Jersey lawyer Samuel Davis told The Associated Press he has represented about a dozen people hurt while riding Segways, including some who suffered serious injuries.

“The problem is the vehicles are just not that stable,” he said. “You have to get used to

Reporter • Page 5 leaning away from the turn. If you lean into it, you’ll turn over.

They don’t do well on gravel or surfaces where there is a stone or a bump. It’s difficult to control.”

One U.S. businessman was quick to defend the Segway’s safety record.

Mobile Entertainment, which has offered Segway tours along the Mississippi River for the past seven years, has had more than 40,000 customers ride the device without any serious injuries, owner Bill Neuenschwander told the AP. “Nobody’s gone off a river.

Nobody,” he said, speaking Monday from Minneapolis.

“This product is perfectly safe when people respect its limitations.”

Heselden dropped out of school at 15 and worked as a coal miner before founding Hesco Bastion Ltd., based in Leeds, near the tough Halton Moor area where he grew up.

“Jimi was an amazing man who, apart from being a wonderful success story for Leeds due to his business acumen, was also remarkably selfless and generous, giving millions to local charities to help people in his home city,” said Tom Riordan, the chief executive of Leeds City Council.

Heselden recently gave $15.9 million (10 million pounds) to the Leeds Community Foundation and also supported the “Help for Heroes” charity that aids wounded Armed Forces veterans.

“Life turned out pretty well for me, but I still work in the same area where I grew up, and everyday I see people who for whatever reason are down on their luck,” Heselden told the Yorkshire Post earlier this year. “When times are good I honestly believe people have a moral obligation to use their wealth to help others.”

Heselden is credited with bringing hundreds of jobs to the Leeds area since the development of the Hesco barriers in 1990. The barriers consist of wire frames that are fitted with liners and filled with dirt, sand or rock and used to protect soldiers and also to fortify flood walls and to stop oil from fouling beaches and marshes.

The U.S. and its allies have used the barriers to protect their bases in various war zones, and they were also used in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and along the southern U.S. coast after the recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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FOOTBALL Bars are competing against various forms of media, some fans believe the fun of game days is lost by staying in continued from 1

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Some bars such as Buster’s, Rounders and Buffalo Wild Wings host fantasy draft parties to try and capitalize on the trend.

Buffalo Wild Wings hosted as many as 45 draft parties between their hilltop and downtown locations in Mankato this year.

Though, after the initial drafts are complete, it is difficult to keep customers from staying in to constantly update their teams online.

Many restaurants and bars are beginning to offer free wireless internet, something that may bring fantasy players back into bars during the games, according to Jen Epper, head of local

marketing at Buffalo Wild Wings.

Epper, who has seen her share of changes in the bar and restaurant industry while working at Buffalo Wild Wings in Mankato for the past 12 years, knows that getting people in to watch games at a business might not be as easy as it once was.

“You can get that sports outlet from so many different places,” said Epper. “You can get your sports from listening to the game on the radio, watching it at home or going online. We not only have to compete against other bars, but against different forms of media, too.” katie erickson • msu reporter Though many people still choose to socialize at bars during football games, some are staying home to save on snacks and beverages.

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Howard Lam, a secondyear student at Minnesota State and self-proclaimed “huge football fan,” prefers to stay at home to watch his favorite sport on his roommate’s high-def big screen TV. He cites not having to worry about transportation to and from a sports bar, as well as being able to spend less money on snacks and beverages, as his main reasons for choosing the couch over the barstool on game days. However, Lam does believe that by staying in, part of the fun of watching a game is lost.

“The great thing about going out to watch the Vikings is interacting with other fans, hearing their suggestions and opinions and just being with other people who share the same passion as you do,” said Lam. The trend of high-def televisions becoming less expensive has affected the amount of people going out to watch games, however, the ever increasing popularity of fantasy football has also changed the way people are watching the NFL. Fantasy football, an online phenomenon which allows fans to draft and manage a team and then compete against others in their league, has many people glued to their computer screens. They usually monitor their fantasy updates and match-ups from home instead of going out to watch the games, according to Matt Little, who has

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When you think of Minnesota State faculty and alumni, glitz and glam may not immediately come to mind. Friday evening, however, encompassed both – and not without a few good stripper references, dance moves and paparazzi.

The 16th Annual Foundation Gala celebrated MSU and the donors who make it all possible while creating countless scholarships for students like us.

The event was emceed by alumna and former theatre major Greta Grosch, now a comedian

and professional entertainer.

Her larger-than-life energy and brazen comments shocked the crowd and served up a new kind of awards ceremony. She showed off her musical background by singing and playing guitar in a comedic sketch about the college while auctioning off President Davenport’s purple-and-gold-striped tie, striptease-style, at the same

time. The tie left his neck for $525.

“Now what happens when his tie comes off, his pants come off too...” Grosch said. “I always wondered, ‘What does a

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Presidential Scholars Victoria Hagen, a freshman accounting major in a canary yellow dress from Cashe, and Laura Fitzsimmons, a junior human biology major (pre-med) in eye-catching blue, prove that brainiacs can look good too.

president do?’ Now I know he’ll do anything.”

“Anything to help our students,” Davenport said in good humor. “We do have fun.”

What is a show without dinner?

Guests were served an elegant meal including side dishes so pretty they couldn’t tell if they were potatoes or a miniature wrapped gift bag they were supposed to take home.

Rod Schmidt was recognized

that night for his lifetime giving of $1,000,000+. Schmidt, who started with nothing and graduated from MSU in ’73 amidst hippies, was good-humored and in high spirits. His message was serious though: Schmidt wants to help working students who wouldn’t have had the opportunity otherwise.

Schmidt said he was about to show up in jeans, but was “threatened” to rent a tux.

“Once you got a style that works for you, stick with it,” Schmidt said. “I’ll come back later and show you some real threads, toots.”

Don’t be fooled by the “Black Tie Event” title – the theme of Friday’s foundation gala turned out glam by way of borrowing and bargain prices.

Director of Alumni Jennifer Guyer-Wood looked timeless in a borrowed dress and Kohl’s necklace.

“When you go to these things every year you find ways to not spend $100 each time,” GuyerWood said.

Nikki Sabby, a junior dietetics major, looked fresh in a short, sassy blue dress from Express and platforms from Charlotte Russe (1). Sabby, MSSA President Tom William’s date, broke the floor-length dress mold.

Liesel Powicki, married to Mike Powicki of the MSU athletic department, channeled Marilyn Monroe and looked exceedingly glamorous with a leopard sash borrowed from

her children’s babysitter’s prom dress (2).

Jim Grabowska, of the spanish department, made a statement in colorful kicks – Bathing Ape sneakers (Marvel Comics edition) and coordinating red shirt and blue bowtie (3 and 4).

Many of the men showed their MSU pride by sporting purple vests and ties.

A couple with as much class and ease on the red (purple) carpet as Brangelina was the new Dean of Arts & Humanities Walter Zakahi and his date Katharine Foster who donned a shimmery nude dress.

Betsey Baldwin caught my eye with her chic fur coat, short black dress and endless black tights.

When I ran into Baldwin in the bathroom she said, “I forgot to tell you – my dress has pockets!” Oh, the joys of being female.

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“I try to paint these beautiful, quasi-abstract landscape pictures with all the sensitivity I can muster. Sometimes I succeed.” – Paul Hapke

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He still had to have something watercolor to oil paint and “One of the most imporin his hands, working away, prints to sculpture. tant things he taught me was trying to get some sort of “The body of work here is that you are only an artist if just a tiny piece of all the years beauty out there.” you make art every day,” said Bunker said that her father of work that he did,” Bunker former Hapke student, William was always an artist first. This said. “He was such a prolific

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Good professors not only teach, they inspire.

Those professors have such a passion for their trade that the passion becomes contagious to their pupils. Paul Hapke, an art professor at Minnesota State from 1955 through 1982, was one such professor.

There is a retrospective show of Paul Hapke’s work with a corresponding sale currently running in the CSU gallery. The show was curated by one of Hapke’s former students, Merle Sykora, 73, with work donated and organized

by Hapke’s daughter, Cassie Hapke Bunker. All of the proceeds of the show will go to the art department’s Hapke Scholarship.

Sykora, a 1960 MSU graduate, founder of the Hapke Scholarship and emeriti art professor at St. Cloud State University, conceived the idea for the show around three years ago and has been working to make that dream a reality ever since. A majority of the work in the show was in the condo basement of Hapke’s late widow, Mart Hapke.

“I saw stuff that was wet and mouse-chewed and slipped in their mats and just absolute-

Yost. “It doesn’t count if you only make art on Sunday.”

Hapke’s teachings, critiques and fashion sense drew students to him like a magnet.

According to Sykora, students would pile into Hapke’s office just to listen to him talk about art, politics, literature and other-worldly issues and would “hang on his every word.”

Hapke was an artist in every sense of the word. He brought his artistic sense with him everywhere he went and would not restrict his work to just his classroom or a single-room studio.

“There was always some kind of studio happening somewhere in the house, whether it was in the living room or the kitchen or my bedroom,” Bunker said. “Both the kitchen floor and the bathroom floor, about once a year they would get worn out so dad would say, ‘Okay, it’s time to repaint.’ So he and I would just take paint and do the Jackson Pollock splatter painting on the floor, but we tried to be artful about the splattering. It was just part of one of my chores.”

The CSU gallery is open Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. until October 13. The work ranges from $35 to $1,000, with nearly all of the work for sale. Work can be purchased during gallery hours.

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Young, inexperienced and in Mankato

The Minnesota Timberwolves are in Mankato and practicing at MSU before their team scrimmage on Wednesday. Despite the youth, hopes remain high Timberwolves seemed to be in a sports editor limbo mode — bringing in players to clear cap room, but also try to For the third straight season, stay competitive. the Minnesota Timberwolves are This season, President of Opstarting their season at Minnesota erations David Kahn has gone out, State University. and signed young players Despite being and seems to have found younger and less exhis blueprint for the future. perienced, the TimberThe oldest player on the wolves surprisingly roster is point guard Luke seem to have their heads Ridnour (29) and the averand chemistry up a few age age is the youngest in notches this season. the league (22).

The only Wolves The Wolves don’t look on the roster that have Chris Wright at the youth as an obstacle, been around for more but as an opportunity. And than one year include although it’s only for five days, just Kevin Love and Corey the Wolves have decided to start Brewer. their opportunity in Mankato, the “I am expecting great things,” hometown of owner Glen Taylor. said Timberwolves President “It’s a first-class venue,” Chris Wright. “I thought we drafted very well. Wes Johson is a Wright said of the Taylor Center.

“The people that work on behalf great young man...We revamped of MSU, the way they treat us is the roster to give ourselves an second to none. This is our home opportunity to more meaningful and our training camp home.” players. It’s encouraging.”

The Timberwolves have their Wright has been with the first team scrimmage 6 p.m. on Wolves for 20 years and has been Wednesday at Bresnan Arena. president for the last seven For the last two seasons, the

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dan moen • msu reporter Head coach Kurt Rambis (center) speaks to reporters during Tuesday morning’s shoot-around at Bresnan Arena.

FOOTBALL

Undefeated no more: Mavericks fall to Golden Bears PAT DELANEY

staff writer In the end, it came down to a kick. With more than 4,000 people in attendance holding their breath, the Minnesota State football team lined up for a 40-yard field goal, down by two, with less than a minute remaining. The fans, however, would leave with their heads down as they watched the kick come up short, sealing Concordia’s 28-26 victory.

It was the Mavericks first loss of the season and one that left a bad taste in both the player’s and coach’s mouths.

“It can’t boil down to just one play, a kick,” said head coach Todd Hoffner. “We’ve got so many chances, so many opportunities to the control the outcome.”

Tied 7-7, the Mavericks got an electric 55-yard touchdown run by junior running back Taylor Brookins. A blocked extra-point, though kept the Mavericks lead at six.

Concordia would answer on its next drive when quarterback Spencer Ohm connected with receiver Charles Gilbert

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for a 41-yard touchdown. After a successful extra-point, the Golden Bears went up 14-13.

Ohm constantly avoided sacks with outstanding scrambling skills. Ohm finished the day passing for 219 yards and three touchdowns. He completed 73 percent of his passes and was not intercepted nor sacked on the day.

Ohm also gained 41 yards rushing on eight carries. Senior linebacker, MSU Matt McQuiston acknowledged the defense was prepared for Ohm’s ability, which was why it was disappointing that they were not able to slow him down.

“When they do get out of the pocket, it’s up to the back seven to get in our scrambling rules and lock on guys,” McQuiston said. “It is frustrating, but nothing that we don’t plan for and prepare for. We should have done a better job of it tonight.”

Despite Concordia’s play on offense, the Mavericks were able to hang in the whole

game. This was largely due to the stellar performance by Brookins and the MSU running game.

Brookins was outstanding all game. He scored three of the four MSU touchdowns and accounted for 170 yards rushing on the day. The 170 yards was the seventh-best singlegame effort in school history.

“Offense takes time to get going and get clicking,” said Brookins. “Once you do, you start moving like we did tonight.”

The Mavericks can walk away from a loss like this happy that the running game seems to be moving in the right direction. However, the fact that the Mavericks are struggling so mightily to connect on field goals has to have them scratching their heads.

Brockshus is 0-6 on field goal attempts this season, but can hardly be blamed for the missed kick on the Mavericks final drive. A bobbled snap forced Brockshus to stop in mid-stride before the ball

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shannon rathmanner • msu reporter Concordia-St.Paul kick returner Jay Motten had 119 all-purpose yards against the Mavericks.

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SOCCER

Offensive struggles continue for MSU on the road LEE HANDEL

FOOTBALL NSIC North School Minnesota Duluth St. Cloud State MSU-Moorhead Bemidji State Minnesota-Crookston Northern State U-Mary

Div. OVR 3-0 4-0 3-0 3-1 2-1 2-2 1-2 2-2 0-3 1-3 0-3 0-4 0-1 0-4

staff writer Despite two tight and hardfought contests, the Minnesota State women’s soccer team departed the Dakotas unsatisfied after gaining only one point in the conference standings over the weekend.

After tying the University of Mary Marauders 1-1 after two overtimes Friday in Bismarck, N.D., the Mavericks lost for the first time in NSIC play 1-0 to Northern State Sunday afternoon in Aberdeen, S.D. “We keep putting up shots, but the shots are just not falling into the back of the net,” said senior Emily Petrovich. “We seem to have a knack for hitting the post.”

Despite an eight-hour bus ride to Bismarck on Thursday, the Mavericks began Friday’s

NSIC South School Augustana Concordia-SP MAVERICKS Wayne State Winona State SW Minnesota State Upper Iowa

Div. OVR 3-0 4-0 3-0 3-1 2-1 3-1 2-1 3-1 2-1 3-1 1-2 2-2 0-3 0-4

VOLLEYBALL (NSIC) School Conf. OVR Minnesota-Duluth 6-0 14-0 Concordia-SP 5-0 10-3 Wayne State 4-0 13-0 Augustana 4-0 8-5 SW Minnesota State 4-1 11-2 St. Cloud State 4-1 9-4 MAVERICKS 2-3 10-3 MSU-Moorhead 2-3 6-7 Bemidji State 2-4 8-6 Winona State 1-4 6-7 Upper Iowa 1-4 3-10 Northern State 0-5 8-6 Mary 0-5 3-10 Minnesota Crookston 0-5 0-13

SOCCER (NSIC) School Conf. OVR Bemidji State 3-1 6-1 Concordia-St.Paul 3-1 4-3-1 Minnesota-Duluth 3-1 3-3-2 St. Cloud 3-1 5-3 Augustana 2-0 3-3-2 MAVERICKS 2-1 3-4-1 Winona State 2-1 5-3 Northern State 1-0 3-2-4 U-Mary 1-2 2-4-2 Upper Iowa 1-2 5-2 Wayne State 0-1 3-2-2 SW Minnesota State 0-3 1-4-1 Minnesota-Crookston 0-4 0-7-2 MSU Moorhead 0-4 0-8

game against the Marauders with energy and intensity. With just over five minutes left in the first half, sophomore forward Nicole Dooher gave the Mavericks the early lead 1-0 with her second goal of the season and team-leading seventh point. Dooher was assisted on the goal by fellow sophomore Cassie Weik, her first of the season.

“We were working and communicating well as a team and got a lot of shots on goal,” said Maverick goalkeeper Chelsey Eley.

Freshman forward Alex Bachman-Williams of the Marauders finally got one past Eley 56 minutes into the contest, knotting the score 1-1.

The score would remain 1-1 at the end of regulation and two overtimes, with neither team get-

ting many good looks at a goal.

After playing a very physical game on a fast-paced artificial turf playing surface, the Mavericks would have liked to come away with three points and a victory as opposed to one point and a tie.

“It’s always tough to go into two overtimes and play 110 minutes as opposed to 90,” said Petrovich. “It felt more like a loss. It’s frustrating when you put it all out there and don’t win.”

Eley would continue her strong play in conference Friday afternoon, raising her save percentage to .718 and lowering her goals against average to 1.77.

“I’m feeling very comfortable in goal,” said Eley. “With such a great defense, shots are rare.

I just try my best to stop everything that comes my way and

support the team.”

The Mavericks’ anemic offense ended up dealing the team its first NSIC setback against Northern State on Sunday. After a scoreless first half, Northern State standout forward Maggie Fedor notched the decisive goal at the 63-minute mark in the second half, giving the Wolves a 1-0 victory.

The Mavericks launched 21 shots at the net in the game, including 15 in the second half, but few were quality scoring chances.

“We had shots on goal we should have put away,” said Petrovich. “We just need to put more goals in the back of the net.”

The loss dropped the Mavericks to 3-4-1 overall and 2-1-1 in the NSIC, good for sixth in the conference.

VOLLEYBALL

MSU splits over weekend TIGE HUTCHESON

staff writer After two disappointing losses against NSIC powerhouses Southwest Minnesota State and Concordia, St. Paul early last week, the Minnesota State volleyball team (10-3) had hoped to turn things around by picking up a pair of wins on the road this past weekend.

The Mavericks did beat Bemidji State 3-1, but lost a heartbreaker to second-ranked Minnesota Duluth 3-2. But even in loss, the Mavericks have to feel good about how they played on the road.

“We’ve been really focusing on squishing the bug, run, and stomp as [Coach Amundson] likes to call it,” said senior Amanda Thompson. “Which means getting out feet there, hands high, and our eyes off the ball and on the hitter.”

While the Mavericks offense unloaded on the Beavers, MSU’s defense silently saw improvement along the net.

Thompson and senior Amanda Beekman took charge, collecting three blocks apiece. MSU also received stellar play from two of their defensive specialists, Alli Rice and Samantha Dale, who col-

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lected fifteen digs apiece.

It’s hard to imagine the Mavericks giving a much better effort on either side against Minnesota Duluth. On offense, Amanda Beekman had one of the best games of her career, racking up both a team-best and a season-best 20 kills with an eye-popping .419 hitting percentage.

The Bulldogs still managed to grind out a five-set victory behind the play of NSIC Defensive Player of the Week Alyssa Nelson, who paced Minnesota Duluth with 15 kills and four blocks.

“Duluth was the best game we’ve played so far,” said junior Brittany Stamer, who totaled 96 assists over the weekend. “We actually had more points than they did, we just didn’t get the win.”

Team chemistry emerged against Duluth. Much of the confidence MSU seemed to lose against Southwest Minnesota State and Concordia, St. Paul returned. And above all, Amundson’s concerns about team defense seem to be less troubling every day.

“We just need the motivation to keep going” said Thompson.

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was finally upright.

Even more frustrating than that sequence was the fact that if it wasn’t for a blocked extra-point, the Mavericks would have been tied heading into the final drive. Because of this, the Mavericks walked off Blakeslee Field with a lot of questions clouding their minds.

Despite the loss, Hoffner was pleased with the overall effort of his players and put much of the blame on himself.

“Our kids played so hard,”

said Hoffner. “I’m so proud of our players. The physical play and just the effort. Some days you get beat. Hopefully when you lose, you don’t lose the lesson.”

Early losses often force teams to re-evaluate where they are and the Mavericks will need to do that this week before heading on the road to take on Winona State.

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