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Students advocate for organic food Health leaders work with administration to bring options to dining halls dani kokochak senior reporter newsrecordnews@gmail.com University of Cincinnati students in Leaders for Environmental Awareness and Protection are working closely with administrators to bring fresh, organic food to campus. Student advocates received permission to go forward with the Real Food Calculator, the first step to the Real Food Challenge — a presidential pledge to work toward providing 20 percent “real food” in dining halls by 2020. The calculator determines how healthy the food currently being served is and how much it needs to improve. The university can use the calculator without signing a commitment to the challenge, a national campaign to provide students with more sustainable food in school systems. “The commitment is still the ultimate goal because that is what [ensures] that the calculator will continue to be done each year, because any school can do the calculator just once and never do it again,”
said Page Kagafas, a fourth-year dietetics student and co-president of LEAP. “Signing the commitment [would say] our school cares to work toward 20 percent real food.” UC’s Undergraduate Student Government endorsed the commitment, while LEAP members met with President Santa Ono and presented the campaign to the University Executive Committee. “As part of our commitment to sustainability as well as continuing to make sure that we have healthy and local food options available, it is definitely a good idea for us to be involved in [the Real Food Challenge],” said Lane Hart, student body president. “Maybe we can’t implement the entire thing in year one, but we can work toward that.” Ono released a statement of support for the Real Food Challenge, and plans to create a dialogue between students and administration to bring about lasting changes, Kagafas said. The executive commitment agreed to move forward with the calculator in order to find UC’s real food percentage and
determine the feasibility of participating in the challenge as a university. “We aren’t to the point of university commitment because there is a lot to do now to gather data about what we are currently doing,” said Debra Merchant, interim vice president of student affairs and member of the executive committee. “I was impressed with the homework that [LEAP students] have done up to this point, and just by the fact that they have so much energy about this particular initiative.” UC will be the largest school in the Midwest to complete the calculator. “A lot of schools that have done the Real Food Challenge are small schools, but we are trying not to be discouraged by that because we think that UC can definitely do it,” said Mary Gorsek, a third-year horticulture student and member of LEAP. Real food is defined by four categories — community based, fair, humane and ecologically sound — based on student research. “Some schools will go through the see food | 2
ANOTHER DIRECTION Educator announces run for city council, recruited by UC benjamin goldschmidt chief reporter newsrecordNEWS@gmail.com Getting fired from Purcell Marian High School for supporting gay rights was the “sign from God” Mike Moroski needed to start his campaign for Cincinnati City Council. Moroski, the former assistant principal at Purcell Marian, gained media attention in February for refusing to recant statements he made in a blog post about same-sex marriage — ultimately losing his job over it. He was fired on the grounds of using “poor judgment.” “The point I was making, you know, I spend a lot of time with the homeless … my students … my wife … and I wish I had time to care about who married who, but I just don’t,” Moroski said. “Wouldn’t it be neat if I didn’t care so much about all these things and I could nit-pick what somebody else does with their life, but I just think it’s a waste of time.” The Archdiocese of Cincinnati received a letter of concern over Moroski’s blog post, and Moroski was given the choice to resign Feb. 4, or recant his statements and draft a plan for how he would live morally “as defined by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati,” he said. “Obviously I didn’t take either of those options, and sort of forced their hand to terminate me,” he said. Moroski’s attorney believes Purcell Marian breached Morowski’s contract, and he could be entitled to the rest of his pay and benefits until it expires. Though his career at Purcell Marian is over, Moroski is using this time to live out his dream of running for Cincinnati City Council, and might work at the University of Cincinnati in the near future. Shortly after his termination from Purcell Marian, members of the UC Division of Professional Practice and Experiential Learning reached out to him, and he applied for an assistant professorship in the program. “The way I understand it, the job would be to have my class, help connect students to nonprofit or for-profit leaders in the community … and then mentor them, teach them about professional practice, how to interview and write resumes,” Moroski said. “It really sounds like the best job in the world for me. I always kind of wanted to get into higher education.” Since about 2000, Moroski’s planned to run for city council in 2013, but when he got a job at Purcell Marian he could run until 2015. After Issue 4 passed — extending councilmember’s terms from two to four years — his run was pushed back again until 2017. “I already had a campaign manager, a branding team, a media team, social media people ready to go,” Moroski said.“In a matter of two days, the entire campaign was branded and we were registered with the Board of Elections.”
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SUSTAINABLE FOODS Students urged UC President Ono to sign a food contract.
Metro builds transit district to Uptown Boarding areas included in Clifton, Metro looks to boost ridership benjamin goldschimdt CHIEF Reporter newsrecordnews@gmail.com
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RUNNING FOR COUNCIL Mike Moroski, former assistant principal of Purcell Marian and council candidate, said his plans to run for office has been in the works since 2000. He was fired from the Catholic high school after expressing support for gay marriage. After losing his job at Purcell Marian, Councilmember Laure Quinlivan pushed Moroski to run now. “She said, ‘Just do it this year,’ and I was like, ‘Laure, I don’t even know what’s going on — I’m on administrative leave in exile, no one’s allowed to talk to me — we need to relax,’” he said. “But the job that I love got taken away from me, so here we are.” Moroski’s main goal, if elected to city council, is to help disadvantaged Cincinnatians. He has a master’s degree in business administration in nonprofit management, and has always worked in the
nonprofit sector. One of his major platforms is to change the way city council operates with big businesses and nonprofit organizations to increase effectiveness and efficiency when addressing the homeless issue. “We have 800-plus social service organizations in Greater Cincinnati, and a lot of them are really great — most of them are really great — but a lot of the services are duplicated,” Moroski said. “And the people who need the services aren’t getting them, or they don’t know where to get see moroski | 2
Cincinnati Metro is building a new Uptown Transit District this spring to boost ridership and provide University of Cincinnati students and faculty with better and safer amenities. The Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority acquired about $6.9 million for the project — $4 million in Federal Congestion Mitigation Air Quality funds, $1.9 million in local funds and a $1 million federal earmark. The project is estimated to cost about $4 million currently, but more may be added depending on other funds coming in, said William Gaut, director of service planning and development at Cincinnati Metro. There will be four key transitboarding areas included in the Uptown transit District; on Vine Street, Jefferson Avenue, the Hughes Corner business district and University of Cincinnati Medical Center. “The uptown area has the second largest concentration of employment in the region,” Gaut said. “We have some pretty active stops in that area, and so we decided to undertake this project to upgrade some of those stops where some of the heaviest activity takes place to improve the passenger waiting environment and safety for passengers.” The new stops will include shelters and streetscaping at key on-street locations in the area. One of Metro’s goals is to connect the hospital and university shuttle services, which could take students from the Bearcat Transportation System to the Metro. Metro hopes to increase ridership and revenue by providing better service and amenities in these key areas. Metro also hopes to cut down on traffic congestion in the area. “These are all real busy areas to begin with in terms of transit activity and pedestrian activity, and the number of nearby businesses and students,” Gaut said. If more money becomes available, Metro will continue to upgrade bus stops.
UC officials host workshop for student veterans Nontraditional students utilize military skills for civilian employment dani kokochak senior reporter newsrecordnews@gmail.com Nontraditional students from the University of Cincinnati benefited from a workshop Saturday, aimed at helping veterans translate military skills into the civilian workplace. Buck Clay, a US Army veteran and thirdyear communications student, organized the event with the collaboration of UC’s Office of Veterans Programs and Services and the Career Development Center. The workshop served as a way for UC to aid student veterans with their professional careers while completing their studies. About 15 student veterans made an appearance at the event, the first in
university history, which lasted for five hours. Federal employment was the main focus during the workshop, as well as restructuring military terminology into civilian terminology and human resource understanding. Seven speakers shared tips and tricks on employment with veterans, including Siggy Letheby, a recruitment manager from the Department of Labor’s Chicago office, who gave a live web presentation. “The federal employment process is a huge, arduous process … it takes a very long time to get in there, as well as to just understand the application process,” Clay said. Presenters from both the federal and private business sectors of employment
spoke with the student veterans. After each speaker’s presentation, the floor was open for questions and discussion. A recap of appropriate skills and verbiage on how to present oneself during an interview with a possible employer was given throughout the event. “We tried to put ourselves in the shoes of the interviewer, looking at us for their organization,” Clay said. The large disconnect between the Department of Defense and general human resource departments made employment more difficult for veterans who are searching for jobs after years in the service, Clay said. Students were informed of scholarships, such as the SMART Scholarship, which
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pays for schooling and provides a stipend from the Department of Defense. “I learned more in the last five hours than I have in the past five years,” said Nathan Johnson, a student veteran from Zane State College. “I received a lot of knowledge and materials that are useful for finding and getting a job.” Information about the workshop was sent out to student veteran programs at nearby colleges and universities, to encourage student veterans from elsewhere to come and see what the workshop had to offer. “I think it is always just important to help people … especially veterans,” said Santeri Potticary, an engineering student.
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Research institute adds two members University of Cincinnati organization fills positions, search for CEO closed BROOKE BEERY SENIOR REPORTER NEWSRECORDNEWS@GMAIL.COM The University of Cincinnati Research Institute named two new members to its board of directors and closed its search for a new CEO. Stephanie Smith, vice president of business banking at Fifth Third Bank, and Tony Shipley, founder and former president and CEO of Entek IRD International Corporation, were appointed members of UCRI’s nine-member board in February. The search for a new CEO closed at the end of January. The primary purposes of UCRI is to support the opportunity of faculty to partner with industry and research, to promote regional economic development and to provide further opportunities for students with experiential learning by working with industry partners, said William Ball, vice
president of research and ex-member of the as secretary of the Cincinnati State UCRI board. Foundation, treasurer for the Coalition for Sustainable Communities and is a “Stephanie is an excellent member of the alumni board resource and is so enthusiastic for the College of Design, about promoting Architecture, Art and economic development, UCRI will be an Planning. especially in promoting “Tony Shipley small and mediumentity that we is a leader in the sized business in the hope will produce community in community, which promoting the is an extremely a lot of new ideas development of important part of and opportunities capitol and so he also what we want to brings a tremendous see UCRI develop - William Ball amount to the table into,” Ball said. “She vice president of research in working with the is also a leader and a at the University of primary focus of UCRI,” strong voice in ensuring Cincinnati Ball said. diversity in promoting Shipley is the chairman economic development within of Queen City Angels, currently the community.” serves on the boards of The Health Smith has more than 15 years of Foundation of Greater Cincinnati, the UC banking experience and currently serves
Foundation and The Circuit — a Greater Cincinnati Information Technology association. “UCRI will be an entity that we hope will produce a lot of new ideas and opportunities to develop new small to medium-sized businesses,” Ball said. “But putting those ideas together with investment capitol is an extremely important part of making the economic growth and development a success, and so that’s where [Shipley’s] longstanding experience and strength will bring a lot to the table.” In addition to naming the new board members, UCRI is searching for a new CEO. “We had a total of 31 applicants with a very outstanding and diverse pool of applications and we are now in the process of narrowing that down,” Ball said. The board hopes to select and recruit a new CEO by April.
Bearcats claw out victory over UConn Photo essay by Lauren Purkey, photo editor
(Top Left) UC senior guard Cashmere Wright forces UConn guard Ryan Boatright into an over-and-back violation, which effectively sealed the game for the Bearcats. (Bottom Left) Fans in the UC student section cheer on the team after its 61-56 victory over UConn Saturday afternoon at Fifth Third Arena. One fan holds a sign making fun of UConn’s one-year postseason ban.
(Right) University of Cincinnati senior center Cheikh Mbodj is heavily guarded by UConn’s DeAndre Daniels (No. 2) and Tyler Olander (No. 10), as he attempts to convert a layup in the first half of UC’s 61-56 win against UConn Saturday.
FROM FOOD | 1 calculator and see that they only have 2 percent real food, and that is actually pretty common,” Kagafas said. “I have a feeling [UC] will be around that.” Todd Duncan, director of housing and food services, believes the calculator will show UC already has a high percentage of real food, Merchant said. During the calculation process, UC’s dining hall invoices will be reviewed to determine where food items are purchased to calculate how much food is local and organic. A portion of the food calculator is expected to be complete this semester.
FROM MOROSKI | 1 them.” He said it may seem unconventional to bring large, for-profit businesses into the issue of addressing homelessness, but forprofit businesses have — in his experience — been more willing to adapt to attack the issues than some nonprofit organizations. He even wants to offer big businesses tax breaks to give them incentives to work with nonprofits. Moroski believes UC could play an integral role in getting businesses and city government to work together to reduce recidivism rates — the amount of homeless people returning to social service programs. “UC has amassed a ton of research
over the past number of years on the most effective ways to reduce recidivism,” Moroski said. “So you [potentially] have Proctor and Gamble, Kroger, a great social service sector, a great city government and you have research from UC telling us exactly what the program has to look like — everything is right here in Cincinnati.” Another key issue Moroski wants to address is the pension problem in Cincinnati. If elected, he wants to work with City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. to get retiring public employees the pensions they were promised. If the city sells its parking assets for $92 million, he would like to see some of that money used to cover the pension shortfall.
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Moroski is currently in the process of getting petition signatures for his campaign. He needs 500 to get on the ballot. “Sometimes, God’s signs are real, real quiet and you have to pay attention real closely,” he said. “This sign couldn’t be any bigger. In making that decision [to keep the blog post up] we were put in a position where we can follow through with a plan that already existed, got pushed back and now it’s right back on schedule again.” Go to newsrecord.org for updated coverage of the city council and mayoral elections.
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CAUGHT IN CROSSHAIRS A member of the Nasr Brigade, a Syrian rebel group, inspects a newly arrived rocket propelled grendade launcher in Kfar Nbouda, Syria, Feb. 27.
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david enders mcclatchy tribune KFAR NBOUDA, Syria — Sophisticated new weapons now in the hands of rebels in north-central Syria underscore how difficult it will be, once more lethal aid begins to arrive, to keep those weapons from Islamist extremists who have become key to rebel military advances throughout the country. Rebels who belong to the Victory Brigade — a group whose alliance with the Hama provincial military council makes it acceptable to U.S. officials who are deciding where aid should go — were giddy as they showed off their new weapons this week. They included Russian-made RPG27s — shoulder-fired rocket-propelled grenades capable of piercing the armor on the Syrian military’s most advanced tanks — and RG6 grenade launchers, another Russian-designed weapon, this one capable of spewing projectiles that explode on contact. But the brigade doesn’t fight alone,
and a video that another rebel group, the Islamist Ahrar al-Sham, posted to YouTube in February showed fighters using the same kinds of weapons in an assault that was coordinated with the Victory Brigade. “Of course they share their weapons with us,” said Ali Ankir, a spokesman for Ahrar al-Sham. “We fight together.” Indeed, Victory closely coordinated its offensive in December to seize the town of Kfar Nbouda from forces loyal to President Bashar Assad not just with al-Sham, but also with fighters from the Nusra Front, which the State Department has designated a terrorist organization aligned with al-Qaida in Iraq. Nusra and al-Sham share the goal of establishing an Islamist state in a postAssad Syria, and unlike Victory they don’t recognize the authority of the Hama military council. Victory rebels were cagey about how they’d gotten the new weapons. “We have our ways,” said Ahmed Darwish, a brigade leader. The timing of the weapons’ arrival suggests they were part of a recently publicized shipment
brokered by Saudi Arabia from Croatia. The RG6 rounds the rebels displayed this week were manufactured in Serbia. The new weapons are a far cry from the light weapons the rebels in this part of Syria possessed when the largely peaceful uprising against the Assad regime became violent in the spring and summer of 2011. But as the rebels’ backers step up military and other aid, the battle for this city reveals the difficulty of controlling which of the myriad rebel groups take possession of that aid. The provincial military council with which Darwish’s group is allied, along with similar councils formed in each of Syria’s 14 provinces, nominally answers to Salim Idriss, a defected general who’s the commander of the Supreme Military Command just inside Syria’s northern border with Turkey. It’s the group that Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday would begin receiving food and nonlethal aid directly from the United States. But it’s difficult here to see a difference between the groups.
For example, Victory and Sham maintained a joint operations center during recent fighting. On a recent day, the local commanders of al-Sham, Victory and a third rebel faction, the Farouq Brigade, were spotted together in the same car; Farouq also doesn’t recognize the authority of the Hama military council. On repeated visits to Kfar Nbouda, this reporter has seen the groups share weapons and expertise. Last June, one bomb maker was providing munitions to various fighting groups, and a video that al-Sham posted to YouTube on Feb. 17 clearly shows fighters using RPG-27s and RG6 grenade launchers, the same type of weapon Darwish bragged about receiving in recent weeks. Asked whether al-Sham also had the sophisticated weapons that Darwish was showing off this week, Ankir, al-Sham’s spokesman, said, “Yes, we do, and we have others.”
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CULINARY CORNUCOPIA Volunteers dish out a variety of Indian flavors at the University of Cincinnati’s Taste of India event Sunday, March 3 in the Great Hall in Tangeman University Center. Guests were treated to food, dance and cultural education about regions of India.
Food, culture on display in Great Hall BROOKE BEERY SENIOR REPORTER NEWSRECORD.LIVING@GMAIL.COM University of Cincinnati students and community members gathered in the Tangeman University Center Sunday afternoon to celebrate Indian culture. The event, A Taste of India, is an annual celebration hosted by the Cincinnati chapter of the Association for India’s Development (AID), a volunteer non-profit organization that raises funds for social development projects. The organization has more than 40 chapters across the country.
“The purpose of this is really to share our culture,” said Srinivas Mirle, organizer of the event and mentor to the student chapters. “There’s an ancient Indian principle that means ‘all mankind is one fa mily,’ and that’s what we’re trying to do here.” There were Bollywood dance performances, free henna tattoos and a wide sampling of traditional Indian foods, including Kesari, a sweet made with Indian Semolina flour, and Vada, a savory donut. Local Indian restaurants Curries and Anand India catered the event. “I’m not completely sure what [the food] is, but it’s nice to try something that’s not
Center Court,” said Samuel Tibbs, a firstyear architecture student. In addition to free food, several vendors sold Indian jewelry and articles of clothing. “I come here every year and it’s a nice way to reach students and families,” said Kamalini Bali, owner of Kamalini boutique. “Its very entertaining and very educational with all the performances and all the different vendors that come in.” Many popular Indian dances were performed at the celebration including the Odissi, the Kathak and the Bharatnatym. All of the dancers were from local Indian dance groups around Cincinnati and dressed in traditional Bollywood costume.
“We have an event coming up in October called ‘Harmony’ that features even more dancers and musicians,” said Arvind Krishnaswamy, president of the Association for India’s Development Cincinnati chapter and engineering student. “Last year we had the first ever Bollywood a cappella group.” Krishnaswamy said the event was about more than just sharing cultures. “The point of this all is to raise funds to help the poorest of the poor,” Krishnaswamy said. UC students can find out information by visiting aidindia.org.
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Writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (“The Hangover”) tried to offend and shock when creating their latest movie “21 and Over.” The problem with the film isn’t that it’s sexist, racist, offensive, tasteless, slightly misogynistic, extremely homophobic and two-dimensional; the problem is it does all those things without a single laugh. Apparently Lucas and Moore thought a youthful version of “The Hangover” would be a good idea, but a second installment of the movie (“The Hangover Part II”) didn’t work, so why would a third? At least “The Hangover” director knew when to be crude and when to show class. “21 and Over” is unapologetically crude, without a touch of sophistication — it stained the theater with distasteful nonsense. The premise of the movie is tried and only sporadically rings true. The oppressed, unwilling man of honor, Jeff Chang (Justin Chon), is dragged out of the house by his two friends Casey (Skylar Astin) and Miller (Myles Teller) to celebrate his 21st birthday, even though he has the most important interview of his life the next day.
Several hours, five bars and an unnecessary slow motion vomit shot later, Jeff blacks out, leaving his two friends to find their way home. Intermittently, they run into the lovely and suggestively unfaithful sorority girl Nicole (Sarah Wright), whose cheerleader boyfriend, Randy (Jonathan Keltz), pops into the frame to cause a ruckus. Hilarity should, but does not ensue. Jeff’s main responsibility is to be unconscious and occasionally abused, leaving audiences wondering what the point of the movie even is. By the end, it’s no secret there is no point at all. “21 and Over”exhausts clichéd labels of college students. In the film sorority girls like to be spanked, frat boys are oppressed homosexuals, Asians are smart, Indians do rain dances, Serbians wear tracksuits and hippies are dirty. It’s as if Lucas and Moore ran out of jokes and threw darts at a wall of rejected Cosmo Kramer jokes, crossing their fingers for a bull’s eye. Potential viewers should consider the title as a warning label — and a set of instructions. Viewers under 21 years old should not see the film and those 21 and older shouldn’t either, unless they’re able to consume a substantial amount of alcohol before watching. Maybe that way the offensive attempt at comedy would provoke a laugh or two.
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UC baseball sweeps New York Tech Bearcats out score Bears 37-6 in three-game home-opening series ANNIE MOORE SPORTS EDITOR
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The University of Cincinnati baseball team got off to a perfect start at Marge Schott Stadium this weekend, sweeping the New York Tech Bears in a three-game series. The Bearcats defeated the Bears 12-0, 17-3 and 8-3 in its first home series of the season. Junior right-handed pitcher Christian McElroy took the mound for the Bearcats on a drizzly, over-cast Friday afternoon. McElroy allowed two hits over five and two-thirds innings, while striking out six. “I thought this was [McElroy]’s best performance of the year,” said Bearcats head coach Brian Cleary. “He’s gotten better each time out. He’s not as precise as he needs to be with his fastball, but he was better.” After a slow offensive start, Cincinnati scored three runs in the fourth inning. Freshman Colin Hawk delivered a runscoring single and Forrest Perron drove in two more runs with a single of his own. The Bearcats added another run in the fifth, when freshmen Ian Happ and Jeff Murray notched a pair of one-out singles, which set Happ up to score off a sacrifice bunt from junior Matt Williams. UC put the game out of reach in the sixth, adding six more runs to push its lead to 10-0. The final two runs of the game came off a two-run double from redshirt sophomore Ethan McAlpine “We just keep trying to play well,” Cleary
said. “It was really good that some of our young guys were finally able to look a little bit more comfortable in the batters box, a little more comfortable in the field, we’ve got to play better defense. But I think the more we play, the better we’ll get.” The teams played through the snow and wind Saturday night in the second game of the series. Despite the conditions, the Bearcats recorded a season-high 15 hits. Senior right-handed pitcher Andrew Strenge started for Cincinnati Saturday. Strenge allowed two runs in five innings, with six strikeouts. Perron and freshman Devin Wenzel each notched three hits and combined for 11 RBI’s, including Wenzel’s fifth-inning grand slam — his first as a Bearcat. “It felt pretty good,” Wenzel said. “But I was just happy to get a hit.” Along with Perron and Wenzel’s efforts, junior Brendon Neel went 2-for-3, scored three runs and drove in two, and junior left fielder and team captain Justin Glass went 2-for-5 and scored twice. The snow continued to come down Sunday, but the game went ahead anyway. Freshman right-hander Conner Walsh took the mound for the final game of the series. Walsh struck out three and allowed one run for two and one-thirds innings. The Bears got on the board early in the first when leadoff hitter Robert Loftus scored with two outs, the product of an errant throw from Happ to first base. UC tied the score 1-1 at the bottom of the first when Glass hit an RBI single to center, scoring Wenzel. UC recorded two runs in both the third
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SWEEPING UP University of Cincinnati left-handed pitcher Thomas Gentile delivers to the plate against New York Tech Sunday afternoon. and fourth innings, thanks to three errors by New York Tech. UC tacked on additional runs in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings. The Bearcats sweep of New York Tech was its first series sweep since the Chicago State series in March 2012. The wins helped build experience and confidence in a young, developing
Bearcats team, Cleary said. “It’s always good to sweep,” Cleary said. “But there’s so many more areas of the game we need to be better at. Kentucky will be a good opportunity for us to test ourselves.” Cincinnati next takes action Tuesday against the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY.
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FIGHTING FOR SURVIVAL (Left) UC senior Cheikh Mbodj rejects guard R.J. Evans during the second half of UC’s 61-56 victory over UConn Saturday afternoon at Fifth Third Arena. (Right) UC juniors Sean Kilpatrick celebrates after the Bearcats’ victory.
UC gets revenge, beats UConn
Cronin’s technical foul fuels second half rally, keeps UC’s season alive JOSHUA A. MILLER SPORTS EDITOR SPORTS.NEWSRECORD@GMAIL.COM
The University of Cincinnati men’s basketball team hung on after an unusual final minute to defeat the UConn Huskies 61-56 Saturday afternoon at Fifth Third Arena. UC led 57-53 with one minute remaining, but UConn’s Ryan Boatright hit a spinning, running shot in the lane to cut the Bearcats’ lead to 57-55, setting the stage for a wild finish. UC center Cheikh Mbodj fouled Philip Nolan while fighting for a rebound, sending Nolan to the free-throw line with a chance to tie the game. Nolan missed the first shot off the back of the rim but made the second, leaving the score at 57-56 with 20 seconds left. The Bearcats committed a disastrous turnover on the ensuing inbound pass, as no UC player could coral a wayward pass and possession fell to the Huskies. UConn returned the favor, throwing away its inbound pass to Sean Kilpatrick, who hit a pair of free throws to give UC a three-point
advantage, 59-56, with 13 seconds left. Boatright lost his dribble while bringing the ball up court on the final possession and was whistled for an over-and-back violation, effectively sealing the game for UC. Cashmere Wright left nothing to chance with a pair of free throws, leaving the final score at 61-56. UC’s defense proved to be the difference in the game, as the Bearcats enjoyed a 21-1 advantage in points off turnovers. “I thought that our defense picked up today — our effort and our energy was much better — which was probably the difference in the game because our offense continued to struggle,” said UC head coach Mick Cronin. Sean Kilpatrick’s steal and ensuing layup opened the scoring for the Bearcats, after a 3:21 scoreless drought to open the game. UC and UConn went a combined 3-16 from the floor with 14:12 remaining in the first half, with the Huskies holding a 6-2 lead after a pair of 3-pointers from DeAndre Daniels and Omar Calhoun. Ge’Lawn Guyn hit UC’s first 3-pointer of the game on the first possession after the under-14 media break, sparking an 8-0 run
to give UC its first lead of the game, 9-8. Five free throws from Boatright fueled an 8-0 run for UConn, but five points from Kilpatrick at the other end started a 10-0 run for UC, which gave the Bearcats a 21-16 lead with 4:52 remaining in the half. UC shut down offensively in the closing minutes of the first half, while Daniels, Boatright and Philip Daniels combined for 12 points to spark another UConn run to close out the half. The Huskies led 29-24 at the break. Kilpatrick led all scorers at the half with 10 points. Boatright and Daniels each had nine for UConn. UC’s defense completely overwhelmed the Huskies in the opening minutes of the second half and the Bearcats regained the lead, 30-29, after an early 6-0 run. Wright hit his first basket of the game, a deep 3-pointer, after missing his first eight field goal attempts. The Bearcats led 35-31 after the bucket. On the ensuing possession Shaq Thomas appeared to be fouled while attempting a layup, but no call was made. While trying to get the officials attention, Cronin slipped and fell on the court. He got up, threw off
his suit jacket and continued to yell at the referees. Cronin was whistled for a technical foul, which resulted in a 35-35 tie after a pair of free throws from Boatright. Despite the four-point swing, Cronin’s technical energized his team and the 12,432 fans inside the arena. Wright, JaQuon Parker and Jermaine Sanders each hit 3-pointers, and the Bearcats went on an 11-2 run to take a 46-37 lead with 10:35 left to play. “When you’re on the floor and you see your coach get fired up like that, [it’s like] he’s playing for you” Wright said. “It’s like your father fighting for you and you’re fighting for him.” UC led by as many as 12, 51-39, after a Kilpatrick 3-pointer and a Sanders transition layup, but UConn cut the lead back down to three. Six-straight points from Boatright fueled a 9-3 run that left UConn down three with 5 minutes remaining. Boatright finished with a game-high 22 points. Kilpatrick led UC with 20 points on 7-16 shooting. UC travels to Louisville Monday night and will wrap up its regular season schedule against South Florida March 9.
Schnier wins final indoor track meet JAELYNNE JOHNSON CONTRIBUTOR SPORTS.NEWSRECORD@GMAIL.COM
The long-time head coach of the University of Cincinnati men’s track team ended his indoor career with a victory against Miami University Saturday. Bill Schnier, who has coached at UC for 33 years, led UC in its final meet of the indoor track season. Saturday marked the 25th meet between the two teams, a tradition started by Schnier in 1980. Schnier plans to retire at the end of the outdoor season, ending his 33-year career at UC. The Bearcats now hold a 13-12 all-time
advantage in the annual series. Saturday’s meet came down to the final event, as the Bearcats led by just four points, 65-61, heading into the 4 x 400 meter relay, which awards five points to the winner. “No event highlighted our spirit more than the 4 x 400 relay, which decided the meet,” Schnier said. “Just when everyone was dead tired, our quartet of Bryan Maldinger, Ryan Wynn, Brendan Lyshe and Darnell Gilbert put the cherry on the dessert. We need more meets like this one.” The Bearcats team of Wynn, Lyshe, Maldinger and Gilbert finished in 3:26.12, taking first place, two-and-a-half seconds
faster than the RedHawks with a time of 3:28.67. The difference in the race, and the meet, was UC’s will power, Schnier said. “Often meets come down to determination and spirit,” Schnier said. “Our dual meet with Miami was decided in just those ways. From start to finish in a meet which only lasted two hours and eight minutes, the Bearcats simply wanted it more.” Many Bearcat standouts helped the team to victory. Dailyn Moore finished first in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.07, Marquis Brookins finished first in the 60-meter dash in 6.94 secounds and first in
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the long jump, jumping 24 feet. Gilbert finished first in the 400-meter dash with a time of 50 seconds, Josh Dangel took first in the pole vault, vaulting 17 feet 1 inch, and Michael Nwankwo leapt to victory in triple jump with a mark of 48 feet 7 inches. “Big time marks were set by Josh Dangel in the pole vault, Marquis Brookins in the long jump and Michael Nwankwo in the triple jump,” Schnier said. “Oliver Book surprised everyone with a second place in his first race in more than a year.” The Bearcats’ next event is the NCAA Indoor National Championships, March 9 in Fayetteville, Ark.