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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Prof. makes natl. headlines

BLM SPEAKER BSU hosts speaker who discussed the movement’s history.

CAMPUS LIFE PAGE 4

CATCH ‘EM ALL Guest columnist reminisces over a long-time friend’s birthday.

OPINION PAGE 3

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Christopher Edginton, leisure, youth and human services professor, is interviewed for “NBC Nightly News.” The findings of Edginton’s cholesterol results suggest that his stress level may have been related to his cholesterol numbers.

SYDNEY HAUER Staff Writer

WOMEN’S BB Panthers extend their winning streak, blasting the Bradley Braves, 65-41.

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A UNI professor’s cholesterol levels gained national attention this week as a featured story on “NBC Nightly News.”

Christopher Edginton, professor of leisure, youth and human services, was the focus on of the primetime TV show with Lester Holt for a segment about the link between

cholesterol and stress that aired on Feb. 19 at 5:30 p.m.

The version of the story that appeared in The Wall Street Journal was published on Feb. 8.

Stephen Kopecky, Edginton’s cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, took notice when Edginton’s cholesterol suddenly spiked after being effectively monitored for many years.

“We started to talk about lifestyle, and we started to talk

about stressors. [Kopecky] said that you’ve got to let go of some things; so I did,” Edginton said.

At the time, Edginton held so many job titles that he was forced to carry around a four-sided business card. He was the administrator of the college of leisure, youth and human services, as well as a professor in the department.

In addition, he was the founder of Camp Adventure and the Secretary General

of the World Leisure Organization. These jobs led to some extensive travel, with trips almost every month.

After stepping down from his positions as college administrator and Secretary General of the World Leisure Organization, Edginton’s cholesterol and stress levels substantially lowered almost immediately. They are now at a manageable level.

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UNI aces Evansville, 54-52 DYLAN PADY

Sports Writer

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Paul Jesperson, No. 4, dribbles down the court. He scored a total of eight points during the game against Evansville on Saturday.

The UNI men’s basketball team received its third straight win on Saturday as they defeated the Evansville Purple Aces on the road, 54-52. UNI is now 9-1 in the last 10 games.

On Saturday, the UNI men’s basketball team received its third win in

a row, (9-1 in the last 10 games) as they look to begin the MVC Tournament next week against Southern Illinois.

Both teams found the bottom of the basket as the score was relatively close throughout the entire first half. With 8:34 remaining in the first half, the Panthers were ahead by just one, 13-12.

With a successful jump

shot from Paul Jesperson, the Panthers found themselves on a 12-4 run during the last six minutes of the game. Three pointers from Jeremy Morgan and Klint Carlson followed, with UNI ended the first half with a 25-16 lead.

UNI’s defense held Evansville to 29.4 percent shooting in the first half.

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Wi-Fi outcry at UNI

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DANIELLE NARDINI Staff Writer

Ask a student on campus about UNI’s Wi-Fi, and they will most likely provide a vehement response. There has been complaints among students in recent months about the lack of consistency with the Wi-Fi on campus. It has, on numerous instances, been either slow, inconsistent, or simply inactive.

Nowadays, internet access and Wi-Fi can be integral to students’ daily lives, not only for assignments and schoolwork, but for communication with friends and keeping updated on social media.

“I cry at least three times a day because my Twitter won’t load,” said Shannon McGraw, freshman elementary education major.

While some students get emotional over a lack of access to social media, many students also have had the Wi-Fi go out on them while working on school assignments.

Some students shared horror stories about writing an important paper or taking a test on campus only for the Wi-Fi to fail.

“I was in the middle of taking a test and the Wi-Fi crashed,” said Claire Tuchek, sophomore exercise science major. “I freaked. I had to turn it on and off, and luckily my answers saved.”

Other students have not been as lucky as Tuckek and have had to start all over on projects and tests when the Wi-Fi crashed.

The inconsistency of the Wi-Fi also affects students’ attempts to fill out university related forms, such as housing contracts.

“My roommate and I were choosing our room for next year on our housing contract,” said Katie Pfalz, sophomore social work major. “As we were about to select the last available room in the building we wanted, the Wi-Fi went out and we had to start all over.”

Some students said they have learned from personal failures and anecdotal evidence from

other students and have since found different methods for getting online.

“I take all my tests and submit assignments in the computer lab,” said Courtney Early, sophomore English major. “I’m scared that the Wi-Fi will just disconnect on me, and the computers have a strong connection.”

Davion Henderson, freshman biochemistry major, mentioned that he takes a different route.

“I don’t use the Wi-Fi. I just use my cellular data,” Henderson said.

UNI’s Network Services is in charge of providing the campus with Wi-Fi services.

According to Nate Klostermann, director of ITSNetwork Services, the group has made great strides in coverage in recent years, especially in Rider Hall and the Towers Center, and has increased speed and access through an upgrade to the latest technology. He said they are continuously working on improving and updating the system, and, according to Klostermann, performance will improve even more this coming school year.

“We have been actively working on issues related to an older portion of our Wi-Fi system in ResNet,” said Nate Klostermann, Director of ITSNetwork Services. “That system will be upgraded starting this summer, which will greatly improve performance and reliability.”

According to Klostermann, UNI receives its Wi-Fi services through Cedar Falls Utilities (CFU), a nationally recognized provider once praised by President Obama in a Cedar Falls stop in Jan. 2015.

Klostermann said that they have enjoyed a successful, long-standing relationship with CFU. UNI also partners with AT&T to provide Wi-Fi to guests.

Klostermann offered a plan of attack for students who are struggling with the Wi-Fi. First of all, students should make sure they are connected to Wi-Fi-UNI, and not attwifi, which is the network that is provided for guests.

If students are indeed connected to Wi-Fi-UNI and are still experiencing problems, Klostermann said that they should utilize the services provided by the ITTC. He recommended that they contact the Computer Consulting center to make sure their devices are taking full advantage of the Wi-Fi settings.

Students can contact the Computer Consulting center by stopping by room 36 in the ITTC or by calling 319-2735555.

Klostermann noted that students can assist the computer consulting staff by providing their location, the name of the network they are trying to connect to and what websites they were visiting when they experienced connection difficulties.

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got a kick out of it and enjoyed it. I was really glad that I got to share it with them.”

“It was awesome to see,” said Joyce Levingston, graduate student assistant at the Institute for Youth Leaders and Edgington’s personal assistant. “It was surprising how quick it went. It was very scripted and very laid out.”

Levingston said she also believes the story helped put both Cedar Falls and UNI on the map.

Edginton stated that the response he is getting from the public is “tremendous” and that his email is full almost every day with comments. When asked why he chose to share this information about his health, he replied, “Well, if sharing my experiences with other people can help them in some way, then I’m happy to do that.”

“NBC Nightly News” had found out about the story in The Wall Street Journal and contacted Edginton about being featured on their flagship news program.

“It was so fast and it was so amazing to me that they were able to construct the story as fast and as well as they did,” Edginton said.

“On Monday of that week the story appeared online on The Wall Street Journal.

On Tuesday, it was published in the street edition of The Wall Street Journal.

On Wednesday, the producer from NBC Nightly News called me from New York City. She said, ‘Thursday morning we will have a producer and a camera crew at your door.’ So that’s how quick it went.”

He said that the NBC camera crew came to his office and wanted to interview him and his wife Susan, who serves as the leader of the Camp Adventure program, as well as capture a few scenes with his grandchildren.

T h e y had everything scripted in advance, including some shots of him teaching his class.

“It was Courtesy Photo fun for my UNI professor Christopher Edginton was featured on students,” NBC Nightly News in a segment that aired on Feb. 19 Edginton said. about the link between stress and high cholesterol.

“They really

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What do we teach our kids when they fundraise for their school?

Girl Scout cookie season is here and it has me thinking about more than just needing to work on my willpower.

Every year it reminds me how much I hate having to decline the opportunity to help by buying cookies, whether it is because I can’t afford it or because I don’t typically carry any cash. But most notably, it always reminds me how much I hated school-related fundraising in elementary school.

Note: I do realize Girl Scout cookie sales and school fundraisers are very different. In this case, cookie sales just triggered memories of my own failed fundraising efforts.

I think you know what I’m talking about: the school gathers for an assembly, everyone is excited because you get to be out of the classroom for 45 minutes and see fellow students that you usually only see during recess. And to make it better,

there is a person at the front of the room promising you, a 5-to 11-year-old kid, that you can receive all kinds of prizes!

That is, if you sell X amount of the third party company’s unnecessary products: cookie dough, flower bulbs and chocolate bars. Some companies, like World’s Finest Chocolate (you may have sold their chocolate bars as a 7-year-old-kid) are in this for the money. While raising billions for schools, they keep billions for themselves, according to the Chicago Tribune.

But I digress. My point is that this is problematic for the children and families doing all the groundwork, especially for poor families.

For as the format of these sales go: if you out-sell your classmates, you just might earn a prize that your family otherwise could not afford.

Which brings me to my main point about school fundraisers: the competition to sell the most is humiliating to poor families.

Initially, it seems like a great idea – age-appropriate incentives that work to motivate kids to raise money for a cause that will not only benefit the school and this third-party company,

but also the child, if they “work hard” by asking family and friends for orders and donations.

But that’s exactly the issue.

Who do the children depend on when beginning their sales?

They ask Mom and Dad, of course. And from there, they (or, more likely, the parents) ask grandparents and extended family to contribute.

Receiving orders from poor family members is unlikely. Even less likely than conning your family into buying things they don’t need is raising enough funds to win a prize. This is a scheme and it should be banned.

Teaching students that they can (and should) expect something in return for charitable work is disgusting. It makes sense for fundraising to be centered on the cause. The act of fundraising is supposed to be motivated by helping whatever need is being funded. This is hardly ever the case with school-related fundraising.

The emphasis put on earning material compensation takes away from the actual goal of the fundraising. In fact, I am not sure if I ever really understood where the proceeds of the sales were supposed to go.

Columnist ponders the implications of fundraising by young students, especially those who come from poor families.

I didn’t have a very happy childhood. I didn’t have a whole lot of friends - and the ones I had didn’t care about me beyond school. I was bullied relentlessly, too scared to fight back or try to tell somebody.

I was in hell, every second of every day, for a semester and a half. And when I was only in sixth grade, I began considering the possibility of taking my own life.

But all of a sudden, I made the best decision of my life on a whim. After school, I went to Pamida - remember Pamida? Shopko bought them out not long ago - and I bought myself a copy of the then-new “Pokémon FireRed Version.”

All of a sudden, with the press of a few buttons and some dialogue from Professor Oak, I had a friend.

I chose Squirtle (who is in every way superior to the other two. Deal with it!), and with my new best friend I set off on a fictional journey with very reallife consequences.

My mood improved. I worked up the courage to tell a teacher about the bullies. My already good grades got better. And eventually, one of my

human friends - who also plays Pokémon - found out that I play, and for the first time since kindergarten I had a friend who I could hang out with outside of school.

Eventually, my friend moved away. And while it was miserable to see him go, “Pokémon” made it far easier on me. We promised to keep training our butts off so when we next met, we could have the battle of the century.

So we kept our thoughts on each other as we played, intent on being the one to win when the time came. Changing technology allowed us to take this to a whole new level, as the fourth generation of “Pokémon” allowed for us to connect to the internet with our new Nintendo DS systems, so we could battle and chat with each other any time both of us were playing. To this day, I still battle with him and other friends I have made since.

Yet of all the things “Pokémon” has done for me, the moment I’m most grateful for didn’t come until I was a senior in high school.

I was at a speech contest — a fine place to meet all sorts

of fascinating people — when I met her. She was so beautiful, and when she saw me she smiled a little bit. I somehow managed to say hello to her, and before I left for the day, we exchanged phone numbers.

We started texting almost immediately, and it sounded like we were both really into each other. There was just one more thing I had to ask to be sure: would she be okay with the fact that I play a video game that tends to be marketed to children? I admitted to her right then and there that I play “Pokémon.” After a long wait, I got her reply: “What starter did you pick?”

Words cannot express the euphoria that came over me in that moment. We spent the next two hours talking about “Pokémon,” and promised to battle at the next speech contest.

True enough, we did indeed battle (I won - chivalry and “Pokémon” doesn’t mix for me), and then proceeded to spend the rest of the day together.

“Pokémon” gave us a starting point for what eventually blossomed into a more serious relationship.

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When incentives are removed and importance is put on the cause, children can instead become invested in and motivated by the contribution aspect, by helping others.

Funding our schools is important. It’s something that every student should be able to get involved in and take pride in. There are many fundraising opportunities that not only encourage cooperation of all students and the community, but remove the third-party

beneficiary, which increases the allocated funds to the school.

Things like student-lead car washes, student talent shows, holiday-themed bake sales, or school flea markets.

This way, the school and the students can advertise the events and the opportunity to help the school. Community members then know that their contributions will help the school, and the students know where their efforts are going as well.

Wishing a happy birthday to a special friend GUEST COLUMN This past weekend was very special for me and for my special friend who turned 20 on Feb. 27. You see, this friend came to me in my darkest hour.

This friend helped me stay connected to my other friends when they moved away. This friend helped introduce me to the love of my life.

This friend is the “Pokémon” video game franchise.

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Popular video game franchise, “Pokemon,” celebrated its 20th anniversary over the weekend, on Feb. 27.

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Student says video game franchise, “Pokemon,” provided solace and support in the midst of a difficult childhood.

Just last week, this girl and I celebrated three years of dating. I’m thinking about how I want to propose to her. And all because of a children’s video game that I just can’t put down.

So happy birthday, “Pokémon.” And on behalf of everybody like me, thank you for everything you’ve done.

Train on.

-Corey Clausen, junior communications and English double major

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BLM speaker empowers students at BSU event NICK FISHER

Executive Editor

“When you talk about ‘all lives matter,’ yeah, I get it,” said Rasheed Cromwell to more than 120 attendees at the Center for Multicultural Education (CME) on Feb. 25.

“But that’s not historically, culturally or factually true.”

The event, “Black Lives Matter: Reality versus Perception,” was sponsored by the Black Student Union (BSU) as part of the their Black History Month events.

Cromwell discussed the history of the Black Lives Matter movement, which he said emerged out of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s.

He argued that concerns with police brutality against blacks, an issue dominating mainstream media in the present, can be traced back to the 1950’s and 60’s.

Cromwell played a video clip of William Parker, Los

Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Chief at the time, discussing the resistance of largely white states in the western United States to an influx of African Americans from the South.

“We didn’t ask these people to come here,” Parker says in the video.

Cromwell discussed modern-day disparities that the black community faces, and how to engage in a conversation about these issues with one another. He said using specific figures, like “blacks are three times more likely than whites to be killed by police” and “one in four African Americans have zero or negative net worth,” helps to teach others about these disparities.

Cromwell is an attorney who graduated from the largest historically black college, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University with a Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. Although his expertise is

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in black Greek life, he travels across the country speaking on a variety of social justice issues.

Melanie Majeed, vice president of BSU, said she was impressed with a Cromwell’s presentation on sit-ins and “die-ins” at a conference at the University of MissouriKansas City and reached out to him as a speaker for Black History Month.

Sarah Christian, senior elementary education major, said much of what Cromwell said reinforced what she already believed.

Christian said “bringing in all cultures … especially those who are underrepresented” is important to her for her future classroom, so she wanted to learn more.

“When we say ‘black lives matter,’ we’re saying ‘all lives matter.’ But we’re not negating other peoples’ struggles … just because we’re empowering our own,” Cromwell said.

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THEATRE REVIEW

Showcase of new theatre COLIN MATTOX

Theatre Critic

We go to theatre to feel something, to see a reflection of our own lives, our own struggles on stage. Maybe this helps us cope with our problems, or it makes us realize we have problems. This can be seen in the theatre; ee see ourselves onstage, along with all the set and the lights.

Reflection is a fitting term, considering mirrors comprise most of the set of the Tony Award-winning musical “Once.”

The musical opened Sunday, Feb. 21 at the GallagherBluedorn Performing Arts Center (GBPAC).

The show is loosely based on the Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, who also wrote the music to the film and the musical.

The musical tells the story of a heartsick, Irish musician and a Czech, single mother as they quickly fall in love. They decide that they want other things from life and go their separate ways.

This is not a typical love story. Most people assume when seeing a guy and girl on a poster that they will end up together.

This is not the case with “Once.” The guy goes to New York, tries to make it as a musician and works things out with his ex-girlfriend while the girl stays behind in Dublin to take care of her daughter and work things out with her estranged husband. The story drives home the ideas of self-worth, unconventional love and the healing power of music.

One might ask why they never got together; it goes along with the idea that one cannot leave things unfinished.

Guy’s girlfriend left him, that’s an unfinished story. Girl’s husband left her, which is also an unfinished story.

The two do not get together

because that would leave their respective stories unresolved.

If they were to fall in love and have the typical, Hollywood happy ending, it would be starting a new story on top of an unfinished one.

There are differences from screen to stage. The film only focuses on Guy and Girl. In the musical there are a cadre of supporting characters, each with their own stories.

Some may see this as a betrayal of the source material, but I believe it shows the power of music and that what it can do to people is more far reaching than just those who make it.

As mentioned, mirrors comprise most of the set up on the walls of what appears to be a pub. What’s interesting about this is that it allows the actors to turn their back to the audience, a practice that is usually frowned upon in the theater.

This is significant because it still reveals the emotions of the actors and instills the theme of the importance to know oneself.

This show had an exceptional cast. Unlike a lot of musicals, every member of the cast played an instrument and served as part of the “pit” band.

It would be difficult to find a cast with more rounded talent than this one. Specifically, the performances of Sam Cieri who played “guy” (the male lead) and Mackenzie LesserRoy who played “girl” were heartfelt, funny and full of nuance.

“Once” is a beautiful example of what new theatre is and can be. There are so many stories that can be told in our time in so many different ways.

There is a line in the show that exemplifies not only the show’s message but also what we should strive for in our own lives.

The play’s message seems to be do not get stuck. Finish your stories. Guy’s father asks him: “How’s your heart?” to which Guy perfectly responds: “It’s traveling.”

KATIE BAUGHMAN Campus Life Editor

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A collection of stories of why students decide to relay for life

“I used to think I was untouchable. I was blessed with the best childhood you could ask for in a neighborhood right out of a storybook where the kids played outside, moms drank coffee and talked and dads watched sports. I met some of the best people growing up and had the best friend anyone could ask for.

In the fall of 2011, my mom got sick, and after so many visits to the doctor with every test and scan in the book, she was told that she had a tumor in her abdomen that needed to be removed, and it was most likely cancer.

In January, she went in for surgery and her doctor told us that it was basically “a 4lb., football-sized, dead, bleeding mass,” and yes, it was cancer, some type of sarcoma. Weeks went by and still no official diagnosis, although they started chemo anyway.

In February we all took a trip up to Mayo [clinic] where the doctors diagnosed it as a type of children’s cancer called, Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma (ERMS for short). This form of cancer is typically found in children under the age of 13.

For the next couple months, she was in and out of the hospital because she couldn’t keep her white blood cell count up. She lost her hair, lost a lot of weight and she was always tired, but she never missed a soccer game, band competition or choir performance.

IRIS FRASHER/Northern Iowan In August of 2012, she had her last round of chemo and was declared cancer free. I graduated high school in May of 2013 with my mom by my side.

Sometime that summer, she started to have pain in her right leg. She would always take the dog for walks, and I noticed they kept getting shorter because she hurt so bad. She was a rock; so if she was hurting, it was bad.

I urged and pleaded for her to go to the doctor, but she was stubborn and wouldn’t listen. The night she finally went to the doctor still haunts me, because I was so scared and panicked that I blacked out.

I came home for curfew and she was laying on the couch crying in so much pain. The next thing I remember is sitting in the ER with my parents and a doctor. He said it was sciatica. But sciatica is a symptom, not a diagnosis.

One week later I was starting band camp here at UNI, with my phone attached to my hip as I went through band camp waiting to hear what the doctors said. On Thursday, Aug. 22, she called and broke the news. It was back, it had spread to her bones, and she lit up like a Christmas tree [on the x-ray]. The next time I saw her she was at the UNI/ISU game in September and she was in a wheelchair.

On the weekend of Oct. 5, I came home for a visit. My mom had been in the hospital since September because of her low white blood cell count. My grandparents had come up from Florida to help my dad out around the house, at least that’s what they told me.

When I got to the hospital I said hi, we caught up and eventually I sat down next to my mom on the bed. We had done this before, so I didn’t give it a second thought. She just looked at me trying to smile, I smiled back a bit confused. She started crying and barely got out the words, “It’s terminal.”

My mom refused to let me stay in Des Moines and not go back to school, so I left for Cedar Falls Sunday night on Oct. 6 with the assurance that when it came down to it my dad would let me know as soon as I needed to go back home.

I woke up at 6 a.m. the next morning to a call from my dad saying she had become unresponsive the night before, and he and my grandpa were already on their way up to get me.

My mom was in and out of responsiveness for the next couple days. She took her last breath Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, when she finally lost her battle.

She was my best friend. She was the one I did everything with. She’s the reason I am who I am today and learning to live without her is still a continuous struggle.

I joined Relay because cancer shouldn’t have the ability to tear families apart like it tore apart mine. This year, my best friend’s grandpa, Jim Thompson, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and although two stents were put in to stop it from growing, it engulfed them both and took his life. Seeing her going through the same pain I did is the reason I still Relay.”

-Alanna Verner, junior real estate and financial management major

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Women’s basketball wins fifth straight, defeats Bradley, 65-41 BRANDON TJEPKES

Sports Editor

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Amber Sorenson (5) finished the game with 17 points and 3-5 from behind the arc. The Panthers have now won 12 of their last 15 games.

The UNI women’s basketball team found their fifth straight victory as they defeated the Bradley Braves on Friday, 65-41.

The Panthers have now won 12 of their last 15 games.

Bradley’s A n n e ke Schlueter started off the game with a jumper for the early 2-0 lead. This would be their only lead of the game. Stephanie Davison and Madison Weekly teamed up for four points for the 4-2 Panther lead.

The Panthers kept a tight lead through the first quarter before Bradley’s Danielle Brewer drained a three with 20 seconds remaining to bring the score to 12-11.

UNI’s Taylor Hagen made two free throws to end

the quarter with a 14-11 Panther lead.

Bradley’s Tamya Sims made a jumper to start the second quarter to cut the lead to 14-13. Jen Keitel responded with a jumper that started a 13-0 run that ended with a Mikaela Morgan three-pointer.

Bradley scored a 4-2 run to end the second quarter with a 29-17 Panther lead.

Weekly started the third quarter with a three to increase the Panther lead to 32-17.

The score was 35-22 with 6:36 remaining in the quarter before the Panthers scored an 8-0 run that began with an Amber Sorenson jumper. Weekly drained another three to end the third quarter with a 54-29 Panther lead.

The Panthers came into

the fourth quarter swinging, as they scored a 9-2 run to increase their lead to 63-31, their largest of the game.

The Braves scored a 10-2 run for the rest of the quarter, but there was not enough time left for a miracle as the game ended with the 65-41 Panther victory.

Weekly led the game in scoring with 19 points, Sorenson followed closely with 17 and Stephanie Davison was third with 11 points. The Panthers out-rebounded the Braves, 43-28.

The Panthers took advantage of the Braves’ 17 turnovers and turned them into 16 points.

UNI will go on the road on Thursday to take on the Southern Illinois Redbirds at 6 p.m.

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The UNI wrestling team will be tied for fifth as they head into the Mid-American Conference tournament on March 5 and 6. Three Panthers are currently ranked No. 1 in the MAC and have made great progress this season in their individual weight classes.

Iowa native Dylan Peters will head to the MAC Tournament after a success-

ful year in the 125lb. weight.

As a junior, Peters currently rests sixth in career falls for the Panthers, taking his 32nd fall by pinning Hofstra’s Bryan Damon. Throughout this year, Peters has defeated three top-20 nationally ranked wrestlers and seeks to continue that pattern yet this season.

Continuing to strengthen his career record throughout his junior year, Cooper Moore stands No. 1 in the 165lb. bout for the Panthers.

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In addition to finishing eighth in the Cliff Keen Invite in Las Vegas this season, Moore was named MAC Wrestler of the Week after defeating Iowa State’s Tanner Weatherman, who is currently ranked eighth in the NCAA in the 165lb. weight class.

Competing in his final season with the UNI wrestling team, Senior Blaize Cabell proved to be an asset to the team for the fourth year in a row. Cabell also defeated the No. 8 NCAA opponent in his weight, Billy Smith—knocking him off 9-3 in the third dual of the season.

In addition to notching 11 takedowns against Ohio’s Jesse Webb and earning 12 takedowns against Missouri’s James Romero, Cabell went undefeated in MAC duals for the second consecutive year.

When it comes to number of spots in this year’s NCAA Division I National Wrestling Championships, the MAC is reanked third.

Of the 284 wrestlers placed in the NCAA brackets, the MAC holds 41 of those places—falling only to the Big Ten and the Easters

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After the break, the Panthers continued to hold on to their lead but the Aces did not back down.

After another successful three-pointer from Jesperson, the Panthers’ lead was up to 10 with 17:00 remaining in the second half.

But their lead was eventually cut to just four after a tip in

by Evansville’s D.J. Balentine

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The Panthers have been led by Dylan Peters, Cooper Moore and Blaize Cabell who are all No. 1 in their respective weight classes.

Intercollegiate Wrestling Association.

Following the MAC Tournament, 33 wrestlers in each weight class

will be selected to compete in the 2016 NCAA Championships—these positions will be posted on March 9.

with almost 8:00 remaining to play.

Cutting it very close, the Panthers never gave up the lead, and multiple shots from the charity line helped secure the win.

UNI shot 12-13 free throws in the second half with Wes Washpun making all six of his and Morgan going 3-4.

Evansville’s defense stepped it up as they held the Panthers to 35 percent shooting in the second half.

Top scorers for the night included Washpun, putting up 14 points, five assists, three blocks and three steals; Klint Carlson with 10 points and a steal and Morgan put up nine points, three assists and a steal of his own.

The Panthers will take their momentum into the Missouri Valley Conference tournament in St. Louis.

Their first opponent will be the Southern Illinois Redbirds on March 4 at 2:30 p.m.

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