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Champaign Q Retail theft was reported in the 100 block of East University Avenue around 5 p.m. Saturday. According to the report, the suspect concealed clothing from Dallas & Co. in her purse and left without paying around 12 p.m. Friday.

Q Aggravated battery was reported near South First Street and Armory Avenue around 12:30 a.m. Thursday.

According to the report, the victim was battered by unknown suspects who then left the area.

University Q A 33-year-old male was arrested on charges of driving with a suspended license and for using an uninsured vehicle at 11:15 a.m. Thursday. According to the report, the suspect was stopped after an officer ran a registration check on the vehicle.

Q A 31-year-old male was arrested on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol near Neil Street and Stadium Drive at 3:30 a.m. Thursday. According to the report, the suspect had been pulled over after having driven through a stoplight.

Q A 31-year-old was arrested on charges of obstructing justice and for three outstanding warrants for failure to appear in court near First and Green streets at 3:30 a.m. Thursday. According to the report, the officer stopped to help a vehicle that was out of gas and the suspect who was a passenger, gave the officer a fake name. The officer found the supsect’s Champaign County warrants to include driving under the influence of alcohol, obstructing justice and theft.

Urbana Q Aggravated arson was reported in the 900 block of West Eads Street around 8:45 a.m. Sunday. According to the report, a home occupied by four victims was set to fire and the suspect was later arrested on charges of aggravated arson near the intersection of First Street and University Avenue around 1 a.m. Sunday.

Q Domestic dispute was reported in the 100 block of South Dodson Drive around 10 p.m. Thursday. According to the report, the suspects were both considered victims and offenders and the disagreement was verbal, with no physical contact reported.

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An “injured” victim is treated by a firefighter at the airplane crash exercise at Willard Airport on May 20, 2013.

University student pleads guilty on charge of possession of child pornography DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT

A University student is awaiting sentencing after he pleaded guilty May 16 on charges of possession of child pornography.

Under the plea deal, 40 -year-old Oscar Hernando Moreno Torres , of 2000 block of South Orchard Lane , faces up to three-and-a-half years in prison and a 10-year term of supervised release . Torres, who is from Colombia and holds a student visa , will also have to register as a sex offender.

He was arrested late November after a joint investigative effort, between the United States Department of Justice and the Urbana and Champaign police departments called “Operation Blue Monday”, led to eight defendants being charged . Among those charged were Mu-Tsun Tsai , a graduate student from Taiwan . He was charged with three counts of distribution and one count possession of child pornography.

According to the plea deal, Urbana Police investigator Tim McNaught began looking into peer-to-peer sharing networks for the exchange of child pornography in May 2012 and identified the computer as well as the hash, the DNA for a particular computer file , shortly thereafter. After a subpoena was issued to the University — McNaught had identified a University IP address — investigators discovered it was Torres who had downloaded the initial file that was under inquiry.

Investigators also found more videos on an external computer hard drive, which they found after a search of Torres’ home .

Assistant U.S. attorney Elly Peirson said Torres could’ve faced a maximum of 10 years , along with a maximum $250,000 fine , if he didn’t accept the bargain.

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Carle tax exemption hits Urbana

2013-14 city budget preparing for $800,000 loss due to 2012 bill

BY KAT BOEHLE STAFF WRITER

A house bill passed nearly a year ago will result in an $800,000 hit to the city of Urbana’s budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year. The bill, which qualifies Carle Foundation Hospital for tax exemption due to the charity care it provides, has Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing on edge for how to compensate for estimated $4.6 million in total losses for the city, including the school and park districts.

Under the bill, SB-2194 passed June 2012, hospitals that give free or discounted services to low-income residents as charity care qualify for tax exemption.

According to an online statement written by Phil Blankenburg, chair of the Carle board of trustees, in 2012, 19,746 people received charity care from Carle hospital, totalling around $32 million in free or discounted care. Carle provided $5.6 million in charity care for 4,400 Urbana residents in 2012.

At a May 20 news conference held by the City of Urbana to discuss the 2013-14 fiscal year’s budget, Prussing said the city and tax payers would be affected by Carle hospital not paying property taxes.

According to Prussing, Carle serves 25 different counties in Illinois and parts of Indiana, but 83 percent of its property is in the city of Urbana. While Urbana residents comprise only 3 percent of Carle’s patient base, with the hospital’s location primarily in Urbana, the city will take on the biggest financial hit from the tax exemption.

Prussing said that in order to retain the current level of amenities granted to Urbana residents, prop-

erty tax rates will rise for all other businesses and residents in the city by around 11 percent because of Carle’s exemption.

“Carle’s shift of its fair share to other Urbana taxpayers puts an unsustainable economic burden on the city,” Prussing said in a letter she wrote and read aloud at a May 6 city council meeting.

Prussing said the city has already been cutting its budget due to the economy and with the Carle tax exemption, the city may have to cut back even more on city services, including police and fire departments.

While Carol Baker, director of business for the Urbana school district, said the district will see a significant decrease in funding, she said the district does not yet have plans to cut any programs or projects.

According to data compiled by Mike Monson, Prussing’s chief of staff, the school district is estimated to suffer a $3 million loss.

The Carle public relations department declined to comment on the tax exemption beyond the statement written by Blankenburg.

In this statement, Blankenburg offers a different side to the story beyond Prussing’s remarks.

“When you consider the levels of charity care and community benefit, the economic impact of jobs and local spending, and the effect of thousands of people visiting our community each year for health care services, the total benefit to the community far outweighs the property tax exemptions,” Blankenburg said in the online statement. “That’s the true

Carle Effect.”

However, Prussing is most concerned with the disparity of the loss between Champaign and Urbana.

According to the numbers in Blankenburg’s statement, Champaign was provided with $8 million in charity care in comparison to the $5.6 million provided to Urbana.

Prussing said she is concerned that the City of Champaign is losing $82,000, approximately 1/10th of what Urbana is losing, while Champaign has around twice the population as Urbana.

“That just points out the disparity,” she said.

Prussing said that the city knew the tax exemption would have an effect on Urbana in the fall when they were discussing the next year’s budget. However, it wasn’t until earlier this year that the city knew what a serious effect it would have.

State Rep. Naomi Jakobsson, D-103, who voted in favor of the bill with a focus for a tax on cigarettes, filed a new bill Friday, HB-3634, to correct to damage the city of Urbana is facing from the tax exemption.

The bill says that if a hospital that serves several counties is located in a town where the hospital serves 10 percent or less of the total number of people the hospital serves, then they are not qualified for the exemption. Because Urbana is only 3 percent of who Carle serves, Carle would no longer qualify under the bill.

Jakobsson said that it is not going to be called soon enough to affect the 2013-14 fiscal year.

Kat can be reached at kboehl2@dailyillini.com.

Local hospital’s property tax exemption reduces money available to Champaign County Because of a new property tax exemption for Carle Foundation Hospital, Champaign County will be a loss of around $6.3 million in tax revenue in FY14, with the Urbana districts seeing the biggest loss at around $4.6 million. The City of Champaign receives more money in free or discounted care than Urbana, but it will lose significantly less money because of the exemption.

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Willard Airport enlists community help for drill To prepare for potential danger, personnel practice required mass casualty situation

BY JANELLE O’DEA STAFF WRITER

One man stumbles across the runway, disoriented. He touches his shaved head; it is shining with blood. A pregnant woman reclines on the grass and wishes for help to come soon. Children lay unconscious and severely injured.

All of these situations would have made Willard Airport a grave place on Monday night, if they were real.

Several local emergency services collaborated to help Willard Airport stage a required mass casualty drill. Drills of this magnitude are required every three years by the Federal Aviation Administration.

Willard’s largest commercial flight carries approximately 50 passengers, which is large enough by FAA standards to require the drill.

Willard fire marshall John Riegel said emergency units are dispatched through the Metropolitan Computer-Aided Dispatch center for the drill as they would be during a real situation. The first priority in a drill is to evaluate injuries and take care of patients.

To simulate a crash scene, a small fire is ignited and volunteers are scattered on the runway. The fire portion of the drill gives Willard, Champaign and volunteer firefighters from 10 other districts practice in extinguishing flames.

Riegel said there are not enough planes available for use in drills, but that they did

use several broken parts from planes to make the drill feel more real.

“It wouldn’t be the same as the plane we are simulating, but it would help show what a potential crash would look like,” he said.

Along with several Willard employees, volunteers from the community prepared for and acted in the drill as hurt victims in a plane crash.

Many of the volunteer victims came from the Champaign County Emergency Management Agency search-and-rescue volunteer group.

“I think it’s a worthy cause, and it’s good practice,” said Kitty Schlueter, a member of Champaign County search-andrescue. Schlueter and her husband, Mike, volunteered to be victims in the drill.

Riegel said volunteer hours make the drill possible. A group of Boy Scouts, several University students and other community members volunteered by putting make-up on victims to make them look injured.

The University’s Illini Emergency Medical Services volunteered the make-up for the drill.

Even though there was enough death and injury to go around Monday night, volunteers still had fun in the situation.

“Let’s go out to dinner looking like this,” Cole Goldenberg, instructor in Aviation, said after receiving his “injuries” via make-up.

Janelle can be reached at jnodea2@dailyillini.com.

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UI graduate wheels across the country After a trip to the 2012 London Paralympic Games, Chalmers continues to inspire throughout the nation

BY EARN SAENMUK STAFF WRITER

Ryan Chalmers’ wheelchair has taken him across the country.

Chalmers pushed across campus during his four years at the University. He rode his chair in the London Paralympic Games en route to a bronze medal in the track and field trials in the 1,500-meter race.

Now, Chalmers, along with a team of wheelchair athletes, is crossing the country in his chair.

They are encouraging others to take on challenges and give back to individuals and organizations that have made a difference in their lives through a campaign called “Push Across America.” For Chalmers, Stay-Focused, a nonprofit organization that offers SCUBA diving experiences to teens and young adults with disabilities, has made a huge difference. Through the program, he became a Professional Association of Diving Instructors-certified divemaster, which represents the first level of professional certification to work as a training assistant.

Chalmers said he has known for a long time that he wants to make the difference in the organization, and he’s happy about the campaign’s progress.

“I am able to put my passion of the organization and my passion for wheelchair racing together,” Chalmers said. “Able body or not, if you set goals for yourself and you’re passionate, you can achieve anything,” He left Los Angeles on April 6 and is scheduled to arrive in New York City on June 15. On Wednesday, he pushed 71 miles en route to Champaign, bringing him more than halfway through his journey.

Chalmers said although his body is a bit

sore, the campaign has been successful so far. Everyone on the team pushed with him the entire distance, which he said was very impressive.

“I’m happy,” he said. “We have a phenomenal team that’s coming across the country with us. We’ve had a great awareness built for the campaign, and we’re hoping to have more.”

He said the team is planning many postpush events to raise awareness in the cities that it couldn’t hit.

Chalmers said it was a great opportunity to be back on campus and see the people on the University’s team. He will return to Champaign-Urbana for more training after the campaign is over.

Roger Muller, president of Stay-Focused, said the team is trying to send out the message as much as possible. On the team’s rest days, Chalmers gives talks about his experience living in a wheelchair.

Chalmers said at the beginning of the push, he was a bit nervous that pedestrians and drivers would not like the push since the team is going slow. However, the overall feedback has been good, and the team has been greeted by people cheering and clapping, as well as taking photos and videos.

“We’ve had great responses throughout the entire push,” Chalmers said. “The awareness we’re trying to build seems like it’s being achieved.”

Their next stop was Indianapolis. Chalmers did a lap on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway before the Indy 500 race Sunday.

“It’s been quite an adventure so far,” Chalmers said.

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Paralympian and University graduate Ryan Chalmers stopped by the Disability Resources and Education Services building Wednesday, part of his 71-day “Push Across America” trip. He is scheduled to arrive in New York City on June 15.

ECE hacker receives continuance until June 3 Former University student charged with computer fraud, identity theft, among other charges

BY JANELLE O’DEA STAFF WRITER

Former University student Daniel Beckwitt received a continuance until June 3 on his case involving computer fraud, among other charges, Tuesday morning. Beckwitt appeared with counsel Thomas Bruno.

Beckwitt was arrested in mid-January on several charges: two counts for computer fraud and one each for property damage, eavesdropping, forgery, identity theft and possession of a firearm without a Firearm Owner Identification card. Bruno said because they were still obtaining evidence, which is police reports and other documentation, they weren’t ready to go to trial and

asked for the continuance.

Beckwitt entered a plea of not guilty and said he is in negotiations with the prosecutor for a plea bargain. He also said there have been three or four continuances in the trial and said the nature of his crimes are the reason for the delay.

“They’re not used to handling cyber crime at the prosecutor’s office,” Beckwitt said.

Last November and December, police said Beckwitt used Super Glue and metal chips to damage locks at the Coordinated Science Laboratory. He alledgedly sent a string of illicit emails to students that offered to sell exam answers and placed keyloggers on several keyboards in Everi-

tt Laboratory. Keyloggers record sensitive information, such as passwords, that give hackers access to email or bank accounts.

A blog post by “Skunkworks” eventually led University Police to Beckwitt; “Skunkworks” listed hacking teaching assistants’ email accounts as one of his hobbies.

Police have also reviewed several postings on Reddit by the user “ECEhacker.”

Bruno said he is unsure whether he will ask for another continuance June 3 or be ready to go to trial.

“It’s a fluid situation; it’s too early to tell,” Bruno said.

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“They’re not used to handling cyber crime at the prosecutor’s office.”

DANIEL BECKWITT, former University student

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Displaced women receive help from ‘No More’ initiative The Center for Women in Transition looks to end domestic violence locally

BY KARYNA RODRIGUEZ STAFF WRITER

During her freshman year of high school, Jami Flannery and her family returned from church one Sunday to find that their house had been burned to the ground.

At the hands of her father, her home had gone up in flames. These were the same hands she had watched hit her mother when she was a child.

“I remember begging my mom to leave all the time, but she wouldn’t for many reasons,” said Flannery, now a graduate student in Medicine. “She had three kids. She didn’t have a way to support us.”

After moving to Illinois to be closer to her mother’s family, these same hands would now strike her.

“I became his main focus,” Flannery said of the abuse. “So if I got ... out of line or anything like that, he would take out his anger on me.”

Eventually, her mother divorced her father. It was after the divorce that her father delivered that final blow by completely destroying their home, turning it into ashes.

After that, she didn’t see his hands much again.

Stories of domestic violence such as Flannery’s convinced Nancy Hiatt, executive director of The Center for Women in Transition, to launch a national movement called the “No More” initiative in the local area. After just one week of working at the center, she decided that a multi-disciplin-

ary task force was necessary to help end domestic violence and sexual assault in the community.

“It’s 2013. I was surprised that there were still problems that I was hearing about,” Hiatt said. “That this was still going on.”

The task force’s first meeting was held on May 14 at the I Hotel in Champaign. The Center for Women in Transition’s Domestic Violence Shelter, often referred to as A Woman’s Place, in Urbana serves citizens of Champaign, Douglas, Ford and Piatt counties, so representatives from these counties were invited. This included representatives from law enforcement, the legal system, education, government, religious organizations and health care.

According to Hiatt, bringing all of these disciplines together is important because when domestic violence happens, it doesn’t just involve one family. It affects the community at large.

“If we work together we’ve got a chance of solving some of these problems,” Hiatt said. “But if we work in isolation, that’s not going to do it.”

Representatives were asked to sign up for at least one work group during the meeting.

The work groups include legislative, victim justice, community education, abuser accountability and institutional advocacy and resources. These groups will set their own goals and will meet once every other month beginning in July.

According to the Illinois Domestic Violence Act, domestic violence is defined as abuse including “physical abuse, harassment, intimidation of a dependent, interference with personal liberty or willful deprivation.”

The Center for Women in Transition has seen an increase in its number of clients

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in the past year, according to the center’s Director of Programs Katie Sissors. In 2011, the center served a total of 479 clients. This number jumped to 553 in 2012.

“Why after so many years of domestic violence education, task force, work groups, federal grants to help ... regional areas fight domestic violence and sexual assault, how come the numbers haven’t decreased?”

Hiatt asked. “That’s why we’re doing what we’re doing.”

Flannery, who later faced domestic violence in her own marriage, said people don’t understand why it’s so hard for women to leave.

“It’s just a lot more complicated than people ever realize.” Flannery said. “And the more people understand that complexity, the better off women will be coming forward.”

Eventually, Flannery left her husband and home in Kentucky to return to Illinois with her daughter. After earning her bachelor’s degree, she was granted a full scholarship to the University by the hospital she had worked at.

Now, Flannery is a member of the task force and shared her story at the first meeting for the initiative. She hopes that her story will help others better understand domestic violence and encourage other victims to speak out and end abusive relationships.

“The more supportive people are, the more understanding of the types of situations that (victims) are in, the better the outcomes will be,” Flannery said.

Those interested in joining the task force can contact The Center for Women in Transition at (217) 352-7151.

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Local bar celebates 10th year of ‘Open Mic Nights’ Cowboy Monkey looks for new talent, boost in business on Tuesdays night does,” he said. “But it’s consistent, and it’s a great way to attract new and unknown talent.”

For Ingram, a favorite part of the open mic night tradition For Mike Ingram, variety is key. Every Tuesday night, Ingram can be found running the show at Champaign bar has been watching newcomers grow as performers.

Cowboy Monkey, acting as a sound guy, emcee, musician “It’s an easy way to fill a night, and I liked it personally because and more for the bar’s “Open Mic Nights.” On stage, too, I liked watching people develop,” he said. “I’ve gotten to see peoIngram switches roles instantaneously, at one moment pro- ple come when they’re only 18 or 19 and play, and they meet peoviding backup vocals for the Backstreet Boys hit “I Want It ple here and start bands, or they just progress as musicians and start writing their own songs and get better.”

That Way” and the next rapping to Coolio’s Amy Mitchell, vocalist and tambourine play“Gangsta’s Paradise.”

On April 4, Cowboy Monkey celebrated the er for local band 90’s Daughter, took the stage at 10th anniversary of its “Open Mic Nights,” a Tuesday’s open mic night. The band primarily tradition Ingram said he, along with friend performs covers of ’90s hits from artists like and fellow musician Brandon Washington, Nirvana and No Doubt, but has also added more founded shortly after the bar opened. The recent hits like “Call Me Maybe” to its reper“Open Mic Nights” begin at 9 p.m. and run toire. This variety was reflected in Mitchell’s set Tuesday as she belted out tunes like Adele’s until midnight. At 12:30 a.m., Ingram takes the stage and performs until 2 a.m. Perform“Rolling in the Deep” and Stone Temple Pilots’ WARD GOLLINGS, ers range from acoustic-guitar-playing croon1993 hit “Plush.” Mitchell will perform with 90’s Cowboy Monkey’s booking agent Daughter at the bar’s Block Party on June 1. ers to rappers to stand-up comedians. and special events coordinator Ward Gollings, the bar’s booking agent and Mitchell said she began coming to Cowboy special events coordinator, said the “Open Monkey’s open mic nights years ago with her Mic Nights” are ideal for musicians who are now-fiance and has returned to the bar for its just starting out. atmosphere and cuisine.

“Cowboy Monkey’s open mic is an excellent avenue for “There’s a patio that’s great in the summertime,” she said. aspiring musicians,” he said. “The sound and stage are top “There are good food and drinks, it’s centrally located and notch, and it’s an easy way to get yourself heard and seen.” there’s usually some kind of music going on.”

Gollings said the open mic is also beneficial to the bar, In addition to the open mic nights, the bar hosts other recurbringing in both customers and performers on an other- ring events like Sunday’s trivia nights and Wednesday’s salsa wise-slow night.

ZACH DALZELL THE DAILY ILLINI and tango nights.

“Tuesday is an off night in general for most establishments, The exterior of Cowboy Monkey located at 6 Taylor St. in downtown so open mic isn’t expected to do the numbers that a Friday Lauren can be reached at llcox2@dailyillini.com.

Champaign.

BY LAUREN COX STAFF WRITER

“It’s consistent, and it’s a great way to attract new and unknown talent.”

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Realtors recognize C-U MTD’s influence Champaign Realtors Association applauds the improvements on the MTD and its recent success

BY JANELLE O’DEA STAFF WRITER

Realtors can sell a house, but they can’t sell a community.

Members of the Champaign County Association of Realtors recognized the importance of a strong community by hosting Bill Volk, Champaign-Urbana MTD managing director, and Tom Costello, MTD assistant managing director at their luncheon Thursday.

Costello presented “10 things you probably don’t know about the MTD,” an hour-long presentation highlighting the accomplishments of the MTD. The luncheon connected two seemingly unrelated entities; the mass transit district and the real estate business.

Max Mitchell, chairman of special projects working group for the Champaign County Association of Realtors, introduced Costello and began the presentation with a short story: “When I was showing a property to a client, the client asked to see our MTD ma,” Mitchell had no qualms about showing the map to his client, saying, “We have a great asset in our community.”

Before Costello began his presentation, the Champaign County Association of Realtors inducted six new members, three of which were absent. Kathy Keller, membership chair for the Champaign County Association of Realtors, inducted the new members with a pledge, as well as advice on how to be a great realtor in the Champaign-Urbana community.

By being a part of the Champaign County Association of Realtors, members create “higher standards in the community (for realtors) and gain an increased knowledge of the real estate business,” Keller said.

One of the higher standards pushed by the Association includes showing clients the positive parts of Champaign-Urbana, including its mass transit system.

Costello opened his presentation by giving the realtors a quiz; “10 things you probably don’t know about the MTD.” The first question taught his audience that 97 percent of the Champaign-Urbana community is within three blocks of an MTD bus stop. A few questions later, respondents found out 54 percent

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Tom Costello, C-U Mass Transit District assistant managing director, discusses the importance of the the MTD bus system in Champaign, Urbana and on campus at the Champaign Country Club on Thursday. of MTD buses are hybrid buses.

“From a financial standpoint, hybrids save us about 25 percent on fuel,” Costello said.

“They’re also frighteningly quiet.”

Costello discussed several other accomplishments of MTD in the last five years, including reaching over 11,000,000 riders in fiscal year 2012 and maintaining 24-hour service when the University is in session.

With several phone apps available to tell riders when buses will arrive in real time, Costel-

lo believes MTD will only continue to grow, and the application of new technology such as Urbana-Champaign’s Big Broadband project, or UC2B, which aims to bring high-speed, fiber-optic Internet to underserved areas.

“Students have got this down pat,” Costello said about MTD’s phone apps. “And UC2B will make this even easier for people.”

Janelle can be reached at j nodea2@dailyillini.com.

Local youth face off each week at Pokemon Club Rantoul Public Library hosts Pokemon Club for members to trade, play popular card game

BY LAUREN COX STAFF WRITER

In a conference room at the Rantoul Public Library, hundreds of beasts battle one another. They harness elements like ice, electricity and fire to defeat their opponents. This is just an average meeting for the library’s Pokemon Club, which meets every Wednesday from 5 to 8 p.m.

The group’s leaders, sixth-grader Matthew Lindsey and Rantoul native Charles Byerley, help the club’s more than 10 members to learn to play the Pokemon Trading Card Game. They follow Pokemon’s official guidelines, host events and trade cards under the supervision of Lindsey’s father, Steve Lindsey.

In the world of Pokemon, a Japanese media franchise created in 1996, trainers catch and work with creatures called Pokemon to overcome obstacles and defeat challengers with the goal of becoming a Pokemon Master.

In addition to the card game, the franchise includes a longrunning animated TV series, video games, movies and books featuring the 659 Pokemon.

The video game series will expand this October with the release of “Pokemon X” and “Pokemon Y” for the Nintendo 3DS. The TV series’ main protagonists, the electric-type Pokemon Pikachu and its trainer Ash, are perhaps the franchise’s most recognizable figures.

Pokemon has been a longtime hobby for both Lindsey and Byerley. Byerley said he first became interested in the franchise when it was introduced in the U.S. in 1998.

“I started liking Pokemon when it first came out, when Ash was in Pallet Town and he first got Pikachu,” Byerley said.

In the first episode of the TV series, the main character Ash Ketchum leaves his home in Pallet Town to become a Pokemon trainer. A Pokemon scholar, Professor Oak, gives Ash his first Pokemon, Pikachu.

“My dad’s parents got me the whole first series of cards, and it cost them a fortune to get me all those cards and doubles of the cards,” Byerley said.

Lindsey, who said he first became interested in the card game four years ago, estimated that his collection of cards cost over $1,000. He isn’t sure how large his collection is, however, because he’s given many cards to other club members.

“We started a system called ‘Take a card, leave a card,’ and I donated a lot of my cards to that,” said Lindsey. “That gets the cards going around the club.”

The Rantoul league also hosts events called

prereleases, in which new cards can be purchased three days early for $30. Lindsey said students from the University have come to Rantoul in the past to participate in prereleases and tournaments.

Members of the Rantoul Pokemon league, along with the Champaign and Urbana leagues, participate in local tournaments, where victors can often win cash prizes or cards. The Dragon’s Table, located at 205 N. Market St. in Champaign, will hold a Pokemon tournament on June 1 with a $5 fee to play. A free tournament will be held in Rantoul on June 8.

Fans of other card games are likely to enjoy Pokemon, Byerley said, because its format is similar to other popular games.

“It’s pretty much a card game that, if you can get into the ‘Magic the Gathering’ card game, you’d probably get into this game,” Byerly said. “It’s pretty much the same concept. It goes into phases. You battle, you draw a card, you battle, you lay it down, you attack and all that type of stuff.”

Lauren can be reached at llcox2@dailyillini.com.

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Editorial Even with new dorm options, UI falls short in caring for transgender students

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he University of Illinois system commits to the freedom, opportunity and dignity of its students and employees. But ensuring and promoting those freedoms and opportunities is a constant work in progress.

In fall 2013, our campus will open Bousfield Hall, the first residence hall to offer genderneutral housing through co-ed room designs. And recently, the Chicago campus has proposed to include sex reassignment surgery in its student health insurance plans.

The proposed $5 -per-semester student fee to fund the surgeries would account for only about 8 percent of the expected $60 increase in costs for UIC’s selffunded health benefit program, CampusCare. Since the surgery would be an out-of-network benefit, it would follow a 70 -30 cost structure meaning the student would cover 30 percent of the cost.

The fee is affordable, considering the increases already expected to occur. The procedure then becomes affordable for those who want it.

However, our own University isn’t quite up-to-par with our sister school. Gender-neutral housing may address the needs of transgender students in social spheres of life, but it does nothing to address their medical needs and concerns.

Other schools, such as Northwestern University and University of Michigan, have already adopted similar policies for their transgender students.

This shouldn’t be a matter of “if,” but a matter of when our University will decide to catch up with other Big Ten schools and with our very own university system.

Ken Thomas, student trustee of the Chicago campus, said

his university is simply acknowledging and advocating the nondiscrimination policy that protects students and employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

If every student is required to pay student health service and health insurance fees, then those fees should represent every student. And just as transgender students pay fees that acknowledge the medical needs of other student demographics, heterosexual, gay and bisexual students should be obligated to do the same. Not every student will use all covered health services — but every student pays for them nonetheless. Even if you don’t use them, they become possibilities for the students who will and do take advantage of them.

Although the surgery is only estimated to benefit one student per year, that’s one student who can make use of a procedure that may have been previously unaffordable and inaccessible.

It’s one student who can have a procedure that will have an impact for the rest of his or her life. Ultimately it’s not about the number of students who will take advantage of the procedure, it’s that now someone can.

The message is broader than providing transgender individuals with a single medical opportunity, it’s about providing them with a range of equal medical opportunities.

When our Urbana campus acknowledges the presence of transgender students — through the LGBT Resource Center and Pride student organization — they must continue to be recognized in other aspects of campus life.

And while the University is making progress toward equally representing the diversity in its student population, we must take it as it is — a step. UIC has laid the foundation and now it’s up to the University to follow suit.

Fine arts education creates opportunities for growth MATT PASQUINI Opinions columnist

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ecently, I spent my day in downtown Chicago with a close family friend, and I had the opportunity to do something I haven’t done in awhile — immerse myself in the cultural scene of Chicago’s fine arts. The day started at the Art Institute where we had the chance to admire some of the great cubists such as Picasso, impressionists such as Monet and ended at the Symphony Center where we indulged ourselves in the music of Bach, Schubert, and the Mexican classical composer Silvestre Revueltas.

I’ve always had a passion for the fine arts. When I was in fourth grade, my mother had me join band and I chose to play the alto saxophone. It became a major part of my life, evident mostly during my high school years. I sought out every opportunity I could when it came to playing. I was in the wind ensemble, marching band, jazz band, pep band, and pit orchestra. Some might say I was your typical band nerd.

Whenever I played in an ensemble setting, regardless of the musical style, whether classical or jazz, I was overwhelmed with emotions and passion.

When we played the overture to Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” a jolly and cheerful piece with a quick tempo, I couldn’t help but feel the same presence of jollity and cheerfulness within the music. The same could be said when it came to “Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral,”a sad and somber piece at a largo tempo written by the famous composer Richard Wagner.

I was indeed given a rare opportunity.

Not many people had the chance to experience the same musical immersion

that engrossed me, but without question, music served as an outlet like no other.

It was a safe and almost cathartic way of channeling whatever feelings I had on the inside. If you’ve ever been curious as to what emotions sounds like, listen to music. Curse those who say magic isn’t real! Dumbledore himself said, “Ah, music ... A magic far beyond all we do here!” Unfortunately, I can’t provide as solid of a testament when it comes to the other fine arts, but I pay tribute to music for helping me increase my understanding and awareness of them.

I may not be able to dance, but I can appreciate the art of it. My handeye coordination when it comes to the creation of art is equal to the skills of a mediocre second-grader, but when I walk through the exhibits of The Art Institute of Chicago, I know that I can look at the masterpieces with meaning and take them for what they’re worth.

The fine arts are an incredible thing. They expand your mind, help you view the world and open your mind in an abstract way that no other form of education can. There have even been studies that show that immersion into the fine arts leads to “neural systems that produce a broad spectrum of benefits ranging from fine motor skills to creativity and improved emotional balance.”

There is no doubt that my involvement in the fine arts helped me become the person I am today. There were many lessons that I learned from music, such as attention to detail and repetition, that have helped shape me into the student and person I am. Soon, I hope to see an increase in investments from public and private schools in the fine arts due to the outstanding benefits that are available.

The fine arts help students become more culturally aware of their surroundings which I believe helps create a more wellrounded and better-educated individual.

There is no doubt that my involvement in the fine arts helped me become the person I am today. There were many lessons that I learned from music ... that have helped shape me into the student and person I am.

Matt is a sophomore in LAS. He can be reached at mpasqui2@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @matthewpasquini.

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Illini baseball eliminated in Big Ten Tournament 3rd loss in 8 days against Gophers despite solid pitching. defense

BY ELIOT SILL STAFF WRITER

Illinois for the fifth time in eight days found itself pitted against Minnesota, and for the fifth time in eight days, the game was dictated by pitching.

For the third straight game of those five, Minnesota did enough to get the win. Illinois was eliminated from the Big Ten Tournament with the loss.

Ryan Castellanos got the loss on the mound for Illinois, though he only surrendered runs to Minnesota in one of the five innings he pitched. The three runs he allowed in the fourth were enough for the Gophers, as the Illini continued to struggle to score offensively.

Illinois head coach Dan Hartleb credited his offense for making good contact, but a lot of the hits the Illini got found their way to Minnesota fielders.

“We took good swings and hit the ball on the nose and just hit it right at people,” Hartleb said. “That’s athletics, that’s baseball, there’s nothing you can do about it.”

In that Minnesota fourth inning, Andy Henkemeyer — who hit the walkoff winner in Wednesday’s tournament-opening game — knocked a one-out double, and advanced to third on a sacrifice fly. Four consecutive Gophers singles pushed the score to 3-1 before Castellanos struck out center fielder Troy Larson to end the inning, leaving runners on the corners.

“They got some pretty timely, lucky hits I would say at the least,” center fielder Justin Parr said. “They had some balls fall that probably shouldn’t have fallen, and they got the runs in during that (fourth) inning.”

That was all the damage the Illinois pitching staff would take, however, as Tyler Jay and Drasen Johnson combined for three scoreless innings of relief.

“Our pitching the last week and a half has been outstanding,” Hartleb said. “I’m really pleased with what they’ve done.

We got good starts, the bullpen was really good. They’ve given us a chance to win every single game.”

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Illinois’ Ryan Castellanos throws a pitch during the game against Oakland, held at Illinois Field on Sunday, Mar. 31.

Illinois again had chances to score in the game but finished with seven runners left on base, which was its lowest total of their three games in the tournament.

The Orange and Blue got their lone run in the second when first baseman David Kerian reached second on an error with one out, and advanced to third on a sacrifice fly. A single from right fielder Davis Hendrickson drove in the run. Hendrickson and catcher Kelly Norris-Jones were stranded when a red-hot Thomas Lindauer, who had previously extended his career-high hit streak to 15 games, flied out to center.

Illinois’ best chance to tie the game after the fourth inning came in the seventh, when the bottom of the order was again able to take advantage of Minnesota mistakes. Hendrickson singled to left field, then Minnesota’s second error of the day allowed catcher Kelly Norris-Jones to reach base. A wild pitch advanced the runners both into scoring position during Lindauer’s at-bat.

A base hit away from a tie, Lindauer flied out to center field on a 2-2 pitch.

“I saw a good pitch and I took a good swing and just happened to hit it up,” Lindauer said afterward.

The Illini appeared to be in good position for the eighth, when the two-three-four hitters were due up, but Gophers pitcher Lance Thonvold was able to induce two groundouts before striking out Jordan Parr to get out of the inning.

The Illini threatened with two outs in the ninth, as Reid

Roper singled and advanced to second on the third Gophers error of the day, but Thonvold was undeterred and induced a flyout to left field to end the game.

“Our pitching and defense were as good as they’ve been all year,” Lindauer said. “We just didn’t hit, and I mean, we’ve hit all year. We just didn’t have it this week.”

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Illinois qualifies for NCAA tournament Despite losing two of three games in the Big Ten Tournament, the Illinois baseball team has made the postseason.

The Illini found out Monday that they earned a No. 3 seed in the Nashville regional and will be playing No. 2-seed Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets on Friday. The tournament berth is Illinois’ second in three years, as the Illini made the Cullerton regional final in 2011.

Georgia Tech (34-25) finished seventh in the ACC this season, after going .500 in conference play. The Yellow Jackets are one of the nation’s top scoring teams, averaging 6.7 runs per game. Georgia Tech has also hit a sixth-in-the-nation 56 home runs this season.

Illinois was the only at-large Big Ten team selected for the NCAA tournament. Conference tournament champion Indiana was a No. 1 seed.

Young Illinois men’s golf squad to compete at NCAA Championships

BY JOHNATHAN HETTINGER ASSIGNMENT EDITOR

The Illinois men’s golf team has become a regular at the NCAA Championships. The Illini are one of six programs to finish among the nation’s top 30 in each of the past six seasons. Two of the past three individual national champions, including junior Thomas Pieters, have been Illini.

But that doesn’t mean this year’s Illinois squad is experienced.

Five Illini — one junior, two sophomores and two freshmen — will head to Tuesday’s NCAA Championships in Atlanta, with four NCAA Championships appearances between the players.

The lack of experience hasn’t limited No. 15-seed Illinois to this point. The Illini won their fifth straight Big Ten title late April and

the program’s first NCAA regional title on May 12.

The underclassmen have been crucial to Illinois’ success. Sophomore Brian Campbell finished second at both Big Tens and regionals, while Big Ten Freshman of the Year Thomas Detry tied Campbell at regionals and finished in a tie for eighth in the conference. Freshman Charlie Danielson tied for fifth at regionals and led Illinois with a regional-low 65 in the first round.

Thirty teams will compete in a 54-hole stroke-play tournament for the first three days of the tournament, and the top eight teams in stroke-play will advance to face off in matchplay to decide the team national champion.

The individual national champion is decided by the low golfer in the stroke-play portion of the championship.

Illinois has only advanced out of stroke-play one time. Head coach Mike Small said the team will have to “not make stupid unforced errors that young teams do” if it wishes to make the match-play portion of the tournament.

“On tournaments that we play, we don’t make mistakes. We don’t do things we shouldn’t do,” he said. “If we do that well, we can be competitive and try to make match-play. But if we putt for double bogeys or short side ourselves on some holes and have bogeys in those situations, or have situations where we give shots away, we’re not strong enough to do that.”

Defending national champion Pieters said his game is in good shape to repeat as the nation’s best, despite finishing 10th at regionals.

“I played pretty well; I just didn’t score well,” Pieters said. “I didn’t make a lot of putts, but still it’s not bad.”

As one of just two northern teams in the championships, Pieters and the Illini will be at a disadvantage, Small said. The Capital City Club has Bermuda grass, a type of grass native to the south, which Illinois has limited experience playing on. Atlanta has more consistent weather than Illinois, where players have dealt with temperatures that have ranged 45 degrees in the last week.

Despite the different grass and weather, Illinois had success playing on a southern course in its regional, winning the Fayetteville, Ark., regional by three strokes over many southern teams.

“It shows that we can compete for a national championship,” Pieters said.

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RUNNING TO STAY AHEAD, TRACK SENDS ITS FASTEST

BY LANRE ALABI STAFF WRITER

Illini women send an impressive 18 athletes With a senior leading the way, 7 men qualify to regionals; 11 advance to championships for NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore. The Illinois women’s track and field team participated in the NCAA West regional this past Memorial Day weekend. The meet was a pre-cursor to the NCAA Championships, the 2013 outdoor season finale that will be held two weeks from now. The Illini had a solid round, qualifying 11 athletes for the championships.

The team approached this meet with some steam after recently placing second at the Big Ten Championships. That performance led to 18 athletes being present at the regional meet this weekend, and they competed in 13 events.

In their individual track events, Morolake Akinosun, Ashley Spencer, Samantha Murphy and Amanda Duvendack all qualified for the national championships.

Akinosun qualified in the 100-meter dash and the 200 meters with times of 11.29 seconds and 23.24 respectively. She is one of only two freshmen that will compete at nationals this year. Akinosun rounded out her impressive weekend with another event, joining teammates Marissa Golliday, Ashley Spencer and Ahlivia Spencer on the 1600-meter relay squad for an incredible run. The team’s time of 3 minutes, 30.76 seconds was enough to break the Illinois school record. The record falling this season wasn’t much of a surprise because the team had consistently put in good efforts in the relay, finishing with a school record top-10 time on three separate occasions this season.

Ashley Spencer qualified for the national championships in the 400 meters, an event which she currently is the reigning NCAA champion. On the journey to defending her title, Spencer qualified by winning her heat with a time of 50.88 seconds, a time that ranks as the best in the NCAA this season and

the eight-best time in the world.

In the 800 meters, the Illini had the tandem of Murphy and Duvendack qualify for the NCAA Championships. Recently becoming the Big Ten champion in the same distance, Murphy qualified with a field-best of 2:03.88. The time was an improvement on her old personal best by approximately two seconds and it ranks as the second fastest in Illini history.

Duvendack qualified seventh overall after finishing the race with a personal best and school’s sixthbest of 2:07.42.

In the field events, Golliday represented the Illini in the high jump. The senior was able to qualify for the nationals for the first time in her career and is finishing her final season in impressive fashion. Golliday had the ninthbest jump of all qualifiers, hitting a mark of 1.75 meters. Junior pole vaulter Stephanie Richartz joined her as the other individual representative of the field team.

Richartz is already a three-time Big Ten champion, but this year’s nationals would be the first time she has ever attended the event.

Richartz was in a battle for the final qualification spot up for grabs and clinched it by hitting a mark of 4.11 meters.

The team will spend the next two weeks preparing for a trip down to Eugene, Ore., to compete with college’s best track and field athletes for individual and team glory. The team will have some intriguing contest to try to dethrone including perennial NCAA Championship contenders amongst the southern schools. They faced some of the competition over the season, but the stakes will be even higher this time.

Lanre can be reached at alabi2@dailyillini.com and @WriterLanre.

The Illinois men’s track and field team competed in the NCAA West regional meet that occurred in Austin, Texas this past weekend. The team presented 19 athletes to compete for a spot at the NCAA Championships next month. The team had seven athletes qualify to participate in the event in Eugene, Ore. The Illini got their first qualifier Friday with senior distance runner Hunter Mickow qualifying in the 10,000-meter run. Mickow, who recently finished seventh at the Big Ten Championships, ran the race with a time of 30 minutes, 10.93 seconds and became the first Illini to qualify for the nationals in that distance in six years.

In the 400-meter dash, junior Stephon Pamilton and freshman Juan Paul Green both qualified for the national meet. Pamilton qualified for the championship in this event for the first time in his career, crossing the line in 46.63 seconds, while Green finished a millisecond later at 46.64 seconds.

Freshman hurdler Cameron Viney set a lifetime best at the meet with a time of 50.54 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles. Viney’s performance of a lifetime just barely fell short, claiming the 13th-best time of the meet, one place out of qualification.

The Illini showed a lot of team camaraderie, qualifying two relay squads for the national meet. The 400 meters and 1600-meter relay squads both qualified on the final day of the meet with six total ath-

letes in teams. The 400-meter relay team of Julian Smith, Brandon Stryganek, DJ Zahn and Pamilton automatically qualified for the national meet with a time of 39.83 seconds.

The 1600-meter relay team that consisted of Zahn, Pamilton, Green and Viney qualified for that event with the third-fastest time of all qualifiers at these regionals. Pamilton anchored the final leg, crossing the line and recording a team time of 3:05.53.

While he came agonizingly close to qualifying for the championships, junior hurdler Vanier Joseph came in one spot off the national stage with a 13th-place finish.

Joseph’s season ended with a time of 13.88 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles. The Eastern Michigan transfer has impressed for the Illini this season and was disappointed to fall short, but will be using it as an inspiration for his final college season next year.

The seven male Illini athletes who qualified will compete in four events at the NCAA Championships at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Ore., next month. The only senior qualifier is Mickow and the other athletes will gain useful tips about how to handle the stage.

This year’s performance signifies a lot of promise for the team’s future with the invaluable core of the team returning next year with a little more wisdom and comfort.

This year’s performance signifies a lot of promise for the teams future with the invaluable core of the team returning next year with a little more wisdom and comfort.

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Hiltzik falls short at the NCAA Championships Illinois’ No. 1 recruit gets defeated in straight sets by Duke ace in the second round of the tournament

BY DARSHAN PATEL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Jared Hiltzik never really had his legs underneath him Thursday.

The No. 1 recruit ended his first year with the Illini with a 6-0, 6-1 second-round loss to No. 8-seeded Henrique Cunha of Duke in cold, windy conditions at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex. Hiltzik was unseeded in the men’s singles bracket at the NCAA Championships.

The freshman, especially in the first set, struggled to get his first serve in and challenge Cunha on his service games. Even when Hiltzik had two break chances at 15-40 in the second game of the second set and another later in the set, he wasn’t able to gain control of long rallies with Cunha.

“It was a big opportunity for me, and I kind of blew it,” Hiltzik said. “I couldn’t hurt (Cunha) in any way. I just felt like I couldn’t do anything to hurt him unless I hit an amazing shot. And he just countered every single shot that I had.”

Cunha had help, too. On the first service game of the match, Hiltzik was broken after he only got in one first serve and double faulted with the game on the line. After Cunha held fairly easily, Hiltzik had a better service game but double faulted to give his opponent a twobreak advantage.

At 4-0, Hiltzik saved three break points, but set up another with another double fault.

This time, Cunha capitalized with a forehand winner.

“A few times (Hiltzik) did execute tactics, he missed some shot,” head coach Brad Dancer said. “He didn’t have many winning plays to build a winning game plan out there.”

While Hiltzik played progressively better throughout the match, he wasn’t able to hold serve to begin the second set. At 1-0 Cunha, Hiltzik squandered two break chances that would put the set back on serve. He missed another opportunity at 4-1 after Cunha had just broken.

When asked if that possible break at 4-1 would’ve been the difference, Hiltzik said, “I don’t think so. No. He pretty much was rolling the entire time. And my legs were shot.” Cunha advanced to the Round of 16 after hitting a forehand winner that Hiltzik wasn’t able to get a racquet on.

The Illini freshman, who will now travel to Florida for a juniors competition, was competing in 55-degree conditions after his match was delayed for more than twoand-a-half hour Thursday. This came after rain delayed play Wednesday, pushing his match back more than an hour. He finished off his opponent, Adrien Puget of UCLA, just before 10:15 p.m. and said he only got about six hours of sleep due to leg cramping, which was “definitely a factor” in the loss of sleep.

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Illinois' Jared Hiltzik hits the ball during the NCAA Tennis Championships held at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex on Wednesday.

Kopinski’s, White’s impressive run finally halted Second and 3rd female Illini All-Americans get ousted from NCAA Championships

BY STEPHEN BOURBON STAFF WRITER

In a tournament that Rachael White and Melissa Kopinski had come through in the clutch time and again, they finally found a moment too big for them.

In the quarterfinals of the NCAA doubles tournament, the Illini women’s tennis doubles pair couldn’t get settled against the formidable foe of No. 2 Southern Cal’s Kaitlyn Christian and Sabrina Santamaria and lost 6-2, 6-0.

“Obviously we were a little shell-shocked today,” head coach Michelle Dasso said. “I feel like we couldn’t stay out there long enough and if we had won one or two games, it would have been a different match.”

As they had in Friday’s match against Oklahoma, the Illini quickly found themselves in a 2-0 hole with Kopinski’s serve being broken without Illinois notching a

point and ending on a double fault.

The Illini seemed uptight on the court, which w≠≠as inside the Atkins Tennis Center because of rain in the area. The huge orange and blue-clad crowd around the court formed an environment Dasso called “claustrophobic.” While USC was placing the ball in tough areas on volleys, the Illini had numerous backhands find the net or sharp forehands sail long.

“USC has a way of making you look bad,” Dasso said. “In general, they are a tricky team. We knew that from playing them in the fall but they have a tendency to make you go away from the gameplan.”

The Trojans would take the first set 6-2, and continue their momentum in the second frame by again breaking Kopinski to jump to an early lead.

The last chance for Illinois was in the third game of the second set. With White serving, the Illi-

ni held a 40-15 advantage in the game before the Trojans came by with back-to-back points to send the game to deuce. After six sequences back to deuce, Christian and Santamaria eventually broke through to steal the game and essentially ended the Illini’s chances.

“That would have been very nice to get,” Kopinski said. “That would have been crucial.”

White and Kopinski each experienced more struggles from the service line. While there were many missed first serves, two double faults each by White and Kopinski in the first and second sets, respectively, gave away games to the Trojans.

Illinois had found themselves behind in the first two matches of the tournament, which it was able to win via 7-6 tiebreakers, but dug too deep of a hole against a USC team that entered the spring 2013

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Illinois' Rachael White returns the ball during the NCAA Tennis Championships held at the Atkins Tennis Center on Saturday. season ranked No. 1 in the country.

The two teams faced each other in the Oct. 5 at the Riviera/ITA Women’s All-American Championships in California, which yielded the same result: a USC victory, this time by an 8-4 margin.

“I was very bummed after the match, it could have gone way better,” Kopinski said. “It was kind of a nightmare.”

Even after the loss, the Illini held the season in perspective.

The duo advanced the farthest in Illinois history for women’s doubles and was just the second and third Illini players to be named All-Americans, behind Lindsey Nimmo in 1993.

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Gibbs continues to dominate on the court in women’s tennis Stanford junior defends her women’s singles title in straight sets against Nebraska’s Weatherholt

BY DARSHAN PATEL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Now one of the most decorated athletes in Stanford history, Nicole Gibbs is looking for a new challenge: sneak into the main draw at one of the most prestigious tournaments for professionals.

She capped a historic career Monday with her second straight NCAA singles title. She defeated Mary Weatherholt of Nebraska 6-2, 6-4 in a match in which she controlled from the beginning.

Gibbs, a junior, also finished her Stanford career with a doubles championship last year and a team title this year. She will be playing qualifiers at Wimbledon and competing at this year’s US Open in New York as a professional.

Gibbs made a statement on her first service game, falling behind 0-40. But she reeled off five consecutive points to hold serve, and she followed that with back-toback breaks on Weatherholt’s serve for a quick 4-0 lead. Weatherholt’s inability to get her first serves consistently opened the door for strong returns from Gibbs on the second serve, especially on the second game of the match.

“Especially with how much nervousness I had coming into the match, getting that first game was very crucial, especially from

down 0-40, that’s a statement to my opponent that I’m going to be the whole match,” Gibbs said. “That was a really important game for me to get mentally, and I think that translated to my physical success.”

Gibbs, later in the set, was broken twice, but proceeded to attack Weatherholt’s muchlighter second serve. She broke at love to get her one game from taking the set. At 5-2, she broke again to take the set after a long forehand error gave her the point.

Weatherholt again had an opportunity to break on the first game of the set in the second. This time she capitalized on Gibbs’ double fault. Weatherholt was serving and ahead when Gibbs evened the set on a return on the second serve. The two exchanged breaks until Gibbs held her service game at 3-3 after Weatherholt came up limping on game point.

She said she had injured her right knee on the first game of that point when Weatherholt came up to the net for what looked like an easy winner but hit it long.

“It didn’t make a difference in the match,” said Weatherholt, who has had three surgeries on the right knee, most recently in September. She said she didn’t know the exact injury she suffered.

After the short break when players crossed over, Weatherholt held easily, even

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Stanford's Nicole Gibbs hits against Nebraska's Mary Weatherholt in the NCAA Tennis Championships at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex on Monday. She defeated her opponent, Mary Weatherholt, in straight sets to defend her 2012 title. though the knee was noticeably bothering her. After Gibbs held for a 5-4 lead, Weatherholt called for a medical timeout, but that didn’t make much of a difference. On the next service game, Gibbs used a drop shot to test Weatherholt’s ability to quickly change directions after being the beneficiary of a backhand error. Weatherholt staved off one championship point but couldn’t fight off the second, as she hit an overhead shot that went long.

Gibbs and Weatherholt never played each other until Monday, but Gibbs prepared for Weatherholt’s flat returns after her semifinal win Sunday. Gibbs, who completed

six consecutive days of singles competition without dropping a set, said she tried to play Weatherholt’s forehand more heavily than her backhand. Gibbs throughout the match extended points with her deep returns, making Weatherholt hit the extra shot, which led to costly unforced errors for the Nebraska senior.

So how does Stanford replace a threetime All-American who will now turn pro?

“You never do,” head coach Lele Forood said.

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Ohio State’s Rola claims the men’s NCAA title amidst controversial call The new singles champion benefits from a close call that goes his way

BY STEPHEN BOURBON STAFF WRITER

Jarmere Jenkins had experienced what it was like to win by inches. On Monday, he felt the other side of that experience.

In last Tuesday’s team championship match, Jenkins and Virginia were on winning side of a close call where UCLA’s Adrien Puget had his foot touch the net on championship point for the Bruins. Virginia would come back to win four consecutive games and earn the trophy.

In Monday’s singles match, Jenkins let the championship point serve from Ohio State’s Blaz Rola go by, assuming it was out. The linesman ruled the serve in for an ace, and Rola was crowned champion after a 7-6 (8), 6-4 victory. Jenkins frantically pointed to a felt mark on the court about an inch outside the line, but to no avail.

“I’ve been in enough tennis

matches to know it looks wide,” Ohio State head coach Ty Tucker said. “But you put people on the lines that haven’t done it before and serve wide. He runs in front of the line, they’ve got no see and the umpire is not going to get involved on the far sideline. It’s tough.”

Even without the missed call, Rola was in good position to take home the title. He won the first set in a back-and-forth tiebreaker 7-6 (8), after he squandered five set points before Jenkins committed a double fault to clinch the set for Rola. The Ohio State southpaw leapt out to a 6-2 lead in the tiebreaker before Jenkins stormed back with five consecutive points to give the Virginia senior a set point of his own at 7-6. Rola would recover and reclaim the lead at 9-8 — Rola’s sixth set point — which led to Jenkins’ double fault.

“He came up with some real-

ly good points,” Rola said. “I was thinking, ‘Oh my God, I wasted five set points,’ and thank God I kept my mind relaxed and thank God I got it. It was a crucial point in the match.”

One of the reasons the match was so close was with how well the two players defended their serves. The only break of the match came in the second set when Rola seized control of the match. With the score knotted at 3-3, Jenkins had four gamepoint opportunities to go back up by a game, but Rola stayed alive and earned the break to go up 4-3.

With the break advantage, Rola was able to serve for the match, which set up the controversy.

“He’s not willing to take 10 percent off the ball to put a little more roll on it,” Tucker said. “He’s in there trying to hit some winners.

I think a lot of guys, in the same situation up 7-6, 5-4 serving for the

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Ohio State's Blaz Rola celebrates his win against Virginia's Jarmer Jenkins in the NCAA Tennis Championships at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex Monday. He won on a close call that went his way. national championship, if they play it any other way they would have gotten their serve broken.”

For Jenkins, the loss ended what could have been a historic tournament for the senior. Virginia won the team championship last week and, along with Mac Styslinger, he competes in the doubles championship Monday afternoon.

As for Rola, he is the first Ohio State singles champion in school history, and the moment hadn’t sunk in after the match.

“For my name to be up there with past champions, it’s overwhelming and unbelievable.”

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Illinois’ Guignon, Kopinski lose to 4th-ranked team Illinois’ doubles pairing falls in a hard-fought 1st-round match against the eventual champions

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Illinois' Ross Guignon hits the ball during the NCAA Tennis Championships held at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex on May 23. Guignon and his partner, Tim Kopinski, lost to the eventual champions in three sets.

Needing a near-perfect effort to top the No. 4 doubles pairing in the country, Illinois’ Tim Kopinski and Ross Guignon brought copious amounts of energy and passion to the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex on Thursday.

However, they didn’t execute enough plays down the stretch and lost to Virginia’s Mac Styslinger and Jarmere Jenkins in the first round of the NCAA doubles tournament.

“It was an entertaining match in terms of the way (Kopinski) and (Guignon) played,” head coach Brad Dancer said. “In terms of the match, it comes down to execution and I don’t think we returned particularly well and TK didn’t serve very well in some games and that was the difference.”

The difference was razor sharp as the final line read 6-3, 5-7 (10), 6-3.

The Illini couldn’t break the Cavaliers’ serve even once and that allowed them to fall behind in the first and third sets.

The Illini started off the match a game down because of an overhanging unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Guignon following the team’s loss to Vanderbilt in the Round of 32 in the NCAA tournament. Each team defended its own serve until the very end of the set where Virginia broke Kopinski’s serve to increase its lead to 5-3. “(Styslinger’s) serve stayed pretty low and we struggled a bit with that,” Guignon said. “(Jenkins’) serve we should have broken, we didn’t capitalize. We were playing a little scared like ‘This is our chance,’ rather than

going and taking it from them.”

Styslinger and Jenkins pounded the middle of the court whenever possible in the first set but the Illini made the adjustment to cover the middle in the second set. This allowed Guignon and Kopinski to go a perfect six-forsix in defending serves and force a set-deciding tiebreaker.

Virginia jumped out to a 5-2 lead but three consecutive errors and an Illinois winner gave the Illini duo a 6-5 lead. The teams went back and forth and each staved off two set points from the other before the Illini broke through with two consecutive points at 10-10 to force a third set.

While the Illini were fired up to be hanging around for a third set, they came out sluggish to start the third set. Guignon had medical treatment for a nagging knee injury late in the second set, and Kopinski was broken again early in the third to put the Cavaliers’ lead at 3-0.

After each holding serve for five games, the Illini had their backs against the wall down 5-3. Illinois earned two quick points to go up 0-30 and incite thunderous cheering from the home team crowd. Virginia would fight back to force deuce and on its fourth match point of the game, the Cavaliers took home the victory.

“There’s a standard we want to play at, and for the most part we were there,” Guignon said. “But if you play a team this good and you’re not there 100 percent, you’re not going to win.”

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Down championship point, Virginia finds way to prevail UVA completes undefeated season, beating UCLA

BY DARSHAN PATEL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The national championship came down to inches — literally.

On championship point for UCLA, at 5-3 in the final set of the final match, Adrien Puget came to the net and returned backhand volley.

But his foot touched the net, the chair umpire ruled, giving a gift point to Virginia and tying the game at 40-40.

That was the only chance top-ranked UCLA would get. Puget’s opponent at No. 3 singles, Mitchell Frank, went on to rally off four consecutive games, including that break and another to clinch the NCAA Championships 4-3 for the No. 2-ranked Cavaliers.

But that wasn’t the only drama. On triple championship point, Frank stopped play, thinking the ball was out, but the umpire ruled that it was good. On the next championship point, Frank thought a return was wide, but he kept playing and lost the point on the next rally. Finally, at 40-30, he was able to drop to his knees, with his teammates being able to join him, after Puget’s return that went long.

The victory clinched the first title for the program, which had fallen short the previous two years to Southern Cal. “People kept telling me, colleagues around the country and just friends, ‘It’s going to happen. It’s going to happen’ and all I told the guys is, ‘We’ve got to give ourselves a chance.’

There’s no guarantees. It’s sports,” said Virginia head coach Brian Boland, whose team finished the season undefeated.

Meanwhile, Puget’s teammates consoled him as he looked shaken, sitting on the bench with his head down and a towel over his head.

During those four games, especially on Puget’s serves, Frank’s ability to stay in the rally eventually led to unforced errors and the notable foot violation.

UCLA head coach Billy Martin said he wasn’t watching his player’s foot, so he didn’t see it, but he said he believed the umpire made the right call.

“If he touches it, and the umpire sees it, you got to call it. It is what it is,” Martin added, also saying that he’s probably never seen that call in as important of a time like Tuesday afternoon’s final at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex.

Mitchell, who is “semi-notable” for dropping first sets and finding a way to rally, erased a disastrous first set in which he recorded a bagel. A break for Virginia in the second set sent the match into a decisive third set that featured multiple momentum swings. Virginia was able to steal the early break to take the advantage 2-1, but UCLA, in the next game, was able to return the set on serve.

The two players exchanged holds until 4-3 when UCLA was finally able to take advantage on an unforced error, putting the NCAA title

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UVA's Jarmere Jenkins reaches for the ball during his singles match of the 2013 NCAA team final on May 21. Jenkin's 7-6 (3), 6-3 win helped secure UVA's 4-3 victory over UCLA, and netted him the Most Outstanding Player award. on Puget’s racket.

“For me, the whole time, I was actually thinking back to last year, we had a tough final last year. For me, I was trying to obviously reverse the roles,” Frank, a sophomore, said with a grin, holding the national championship trophy. “When he broke me to go up 5-3, I knew I had to dig in … And here I am now.”

While Frank played hero Tuesday, Jenkins, a senior who was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player, jump-started the match. He teamed up with Mac Styslinger at No. 1 doubles to win handily over the UCLA pair 8-2. That victory helped give Virginia the doubles point. In singles, he defeated Dennis Novikov 7-6(3), 6-3 at No. 1. Novikov was returning better than Monday, when he lost his

singles match. But the No. 3-ranked Jenkins showed the ability to stay in the point, which ultimately proved more beneficial.

The overall match came down to No. 3 singles after Karue Sell of UCLA defeated Julen Uriguen 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the other three-setter on the day. That point tied the overall match at 3-3.

to help get the schedule back on play.

When rain isn’t a factor, it’s wind that could impact where matches are contested — NCAA monitored wind speeds during the last two days of team competition early in the week. For matches to be moved indoors, wind gusts need to be predicted at 20 mph at sustained rates. While the speed never reached that level for a long enough time, there’s always a plan in place.

For team play, the NCAA would’ve have split Atkins Tennis Center into two sides for the two ongoing team matches, holding individual matches that were closest to completion near the center. This would have been crucial for the semifi nals, as the NCAA strives to hold them at the same time to eliminate the possibility of one team having an extra few hours of rest.

And sometimes, the NCAA tries please the orange-and-blue-clad crowd by putting matches featuring Illini on the show courts — South Court Nos. 1 or 2. This usually poses a bigger challenge for when tournaments are hosted at Georgia or Stanford, the sites of the previous two tournaments, because the two teams usually feature a stronger level of play.

Illini women’s tennis duo Rachael White and Melissa Kopinski waited over an hour from their noon start time for the singles match to fi nish on Court 1, which has additional temporary seating, before competing

there, while four courts were empty at 12:45.

“I defi nitely think we were ready to play and wanted to get out there,” White said after the doubles team’s 6-4, 7-6(5) victory Thursday. “But waiting for Court 1 is a huge advantage for us of having all the fans there and have extra seating, so it’s defi nitely worth it.”

But it was a little different waiting indoors, as they did in their quarterfi nal match the day after. Inside Atkins Tennis Center, there’s only one row of seating on the second floor. So that means additional fans, media and tournament officials are crowded in the median separating the six courts, creating a “claustrophobic” environment, said Michelle Dasso, Illini women’s tennis head coach.

For team play, it’s much simpler as court placement is not an issue. Before the NCAA began creating the 64-team bracket for both the men’s and women’s tournaments, it asked Illinois officials a simple question: What time would you want to play if your teams advanced to the Round of 16?

Illinois chose the last time slot for May 16-17: 7 p.m. But the women were never picked for the tournament and the men fell a round short of returning to play in front of the home crowd.

Darshan can be reached at patel174@dailyillini.com and @drshnpatel.

More online: Visit DailyIllini.com for a recap of the women’s team final in which Stanford defeated Texas A&M.

» » » » » » » Bad weather creates scheduling conflicts for NCAA officials during tennis tournament

BY DARSHAN PATEL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Jared Hiltzik’s first-round match ended in three sets just before 10:15 p.m. Wednesday.

From there, a quick turnaround ensued for the nation’s No. 1 recruit last year.

The Illini freshman woke up the next morning around 8 for breakfast and a routine hitting session before his much-anticipated 11 a.m. second-round match against Duke’s Henrique Cunha. But like the day before, his match was delayed as other matches were pushed back, or moved indoors, due to rain — two and a half hours. Receiving only about six hours of sleep the night before, he needed the extra time, yet he was unable to fi nd his legs in an easy 6-0, 6-1 win for Cunha.

The rain, along with court placement, has posed a problem for the NCAA committee all week as it tried to satisfy both studentathletes and fans.

While the NCAA committee decided to move up the start time for the Wednesday matches to 8 a.m., it had its hands cuffed when fi rst-round singles matches were pushed past 10 at night. Thirteen matches moved indoors.

With 12 outdoor courts — not including the West courts because those are used as a last resort — at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex, NCAA needed to get in 64 matches, as pushing fi rst-round singles another day would be the worst-case scenario. Each

court ideally would have hosted five matches, which are usually anywhere between an hour to three hours. And some courts would have to host six, depending on how early other matches fi nish.

“If we had not made those provisions (to start matches earlier) and we got rain all day, putting all those matches indoors, we’d have them fi nishing at 4 or 5 o’clock in the morning,” said Kristin Fasbender, associate director of championships and alliances for the NCAA. While six indoor courts were at NCAA’s disposal, every effort is made to play — and keep — a match outdoors, she said. That is because once a match moves indoors, it has to fi nish indoors, per Intercollegiate Tennis Association rules.

For Hiltzik and other winners in the evening, there was nothing they could do about the early start time the next day. It’s because the singles matches, which again started at 8, needed to fi nish before doubles play began. This was because many teams will have their top singles player also play in doubles, and considering Thursday was the fi rst round of doubles, a handful of athletes played twice.

Thursday, 14 out of 32 singles matches fi nished indoors — five were played entirely indoors — but weather cleared up for doubles competition in the afternoon and early evening. Illinois opened up the West Courts

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