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NEWS >>

Car catches fire in Memorial Hall parking lot

Chadron Volunteer Fire Department responded car fire Tuesday night Please see page 4

LIFESTYLES >>

Press play on a magazine with “The French Dispatch”

Wes Anderson celebrates journalists with a bit of artistic flair Please see page 7

AG & RANGE >>

Game and Parks to host events in February

Virtual and in-person events across the state for children, adults and educators to premier Please see page 11

INDEX News 2 Opinion 5 Lifestyles 7 Ag & Range 11 Sports 12

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Jesse Oladimeji looks through a telescope at one of the activity centers at the Sun, Earth, Universe exhibit at the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center, Jan. 13

CSC celebrates third year of MLK Day events u By Aubrie Lawrence Editor-in-Chief

For the third consecutive year, CSC canceled classes Monday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Unlike previous years, the Social Science club decided to host events throughout the week to honor the Civil Rights activist rather than holding events only on Monday.

“One goal the Social Science Club had for MLK Day this year was to try to make it a bigger deal than in years past,” Laura Clay, senior of Colorado Springs, Social Science Club president, said. “Since many students aren’t around for Monday’s events, we figured they could attend another event later in the week to still celebrate Dr. King.”

Monday morning, students and staff gathered at the corner of Third and Main Streets to participate in a march.

Following the march and a lunch put on by the Social Science Club, a student discussion panel talking about the importance of the Civil Rights Movement and recent protests was held in the Student Center Ballroom.

“There was a good turnout for the march as well as the panel,” Clay said.

“We always wish more would attend, but many students do choose to go home or make other plans since it is a day off from school. However, the discussions were thought provoking, and I’m sure those who attended would agree.”

On Tuesday, the Social Science Club co-sponsored an Open Mic Nigh with Sigma Tau Delta and Wednesday it co-hosted a presentation of “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead.

Please see, MLK Day photo coverage, page 2 & 3

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MLK Day coverage RIGHT: Justin Curtis, social sciences assistant professor, holds up a written sign during Monday’s MLK Day March.

FAR RIGHT: Natalie Boyd, 21, senior of Stratton, talks with other students in front of the Student Center after the MLK Day March, Monday morning.

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MLK Day coverage RIGHT: Alex Helmbrecht, college relations director, carries his son on his shoulders while walking next to his wife during Monday morning’s MLK Day March.

FAR RIGHT: Estabon Bozeman, senior of Los Angeles, holds a microphone as one of the panelist during the student discussion panel, Monday afternoon in the Student Center Ballroom.

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Car catches fire Tuesday night behind Memorial Hall THE EAGLE COVID-19 REPORT SOURCE: CSC website as of Wednesday, Jan. 19, 5 p.m.

TOTAL ACTIVE CASES Students: 24 Employees: 3 RECOVERIES Students: 53 Employees: 9 CUMULATIVE CASES Students: 77 Employees: 12

 By Aubrie Lawrence Editor-in-Chief

Around 7:10 p.m. Tuesday night, students gathered behind Memorial Hall and watched as the Chadron Volunteer Fire Department put out a car that was engulfed in flames.

No one was injured.

Two fire trucks arrived at the scene, one cooling the fire and protecting nearby cars with water while the other sprayed foam to smother the flames.

Branden Martins, Chadron fire chief, said that the fire was “electrical in nature and began in the engine compartment,” KCSR reported Wednesday morning.

The flames were hot enough to blow the front tires of the car.

By around 8 p.m., the fire was doused and responders had left the scene.

Photo by Mackenzie Dahlberg

Chadron volunteer firefighters extinguish the flames of a car in the parking lot behind Memorial Hall.

Nebraska poet Matthew Mason to speak on campus today  From CSC College Relations Matt Mason, Nebraska State Poet and Executive Director of the Nebraska Writers Collective, will present several sessions during Chadron State College’s Creative Writing Day Thursday, Jan. 20. All events are free and open to anyone who is interested.

Mason is the author of Things We Don’t Know We Don’t Know, The Baby That Ate Cincinnati, and I Have a Poem the

Size of the Moon, a book of poems about Nebraska.

Following a meet and greet from 3:30 to 4 p.m. with English and Humanities faculty members in Old Admin Room 227, Mason will participate in a roundtable discussion from 4 to 5 p.m. about creative writing in the high school classroom, programs such as Poetry Out Loud, writing festivals, and events intended for emerging writers.

From 5:15 to 6:30 p.m., Mason will lead writers through activities he has developed through the Nebraska Arts Council’s Artists in the Schools and Communities program.

Pizza will be provided.

At a 7 p.m. public reading in the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center, Mason will share excerpts from his third book with a book signing to follow.

Mason is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize for his poem, Notes For My Daughter Against Chasing Storms, and his work has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry.

A sample of Mason’s Pandemic Poetry can be seen on YouTube.

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Opinion

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K class, today we’re going to be talking about the differences between men and women during sex. Men are like microwaves, they ‘heat up’ quickly and finish just the same.

Women, on the other hand, are like crock pots. They take a while to heat up and take hours to finish.

No joke, that’s what my middle school nurse told me and my fellow classmates about sex.

We weren’t given any context as to what that meant, it was all up to us to figure it out using our own devices.

That’s because we were raised during the time of abstinence-only sex education.

It started in the 80s’ when Congress passed the Adolescence Family Life Act (AFLA). It was designed to encourage young people to wait until marriage while also providing support to pregnant and parenting teens.

By 2000, there were three abstinence-only programs created by the Federal government that encouraged states to teach

abstinence-only programs for grant money.

These federally funded programs existed in some form until 2010 when President Obama put an end to them.

However, they still haunted schools across the country and were the continued basis for sex education programs.

That was exactly what I was taught in high school.

Basically, my school nurse wanted to scare the living hell out of us by telling us all the things that would happen to us if we had sex before marriage, you know, STDs, pregnancy, mental health problems and an inevitable death without truly telling us about other birth control options. We were then sent into the world of high school under the guise that we would be OK. Except we weren’t. The whole ‘figuring things out for ourselves’ tactic ended up backfiring and creating big problems.

Teen pregnancies, STD cases and misinformation filled high schools around the country. In

my high school, my and mental health” graduating class was according to NCAC. the only class to reach org. graduation without a Now, things have teen pregnancy since gotten a little better 2014, and every class over the last couple of that followed mine had years as organizations at least one pregnancy and medical studies and countless pregpreach comprehensive nancy scares. sex ed. But it’s still not Taking an abstienough. nence-only approach Sex ed needs to Aubrie Lawrence to teaching sex educacover every aspect of tion isn’t effective because there sex, including the uncomfortable is no real education involved. bits, and let students make their According to stuvoice.org, own decisions about what is only 17 states require sex educaright for them. tion to be scientifically accurate.

It needs to teach students That means that the things we are about sex that also isn’t heterbeing taught could be wrong. onormative. That way, students And that was proven. who belong to the LGBTQ+ A study done on those fedcommunity are getting a fair eral grant programs in 2004 by education as well.

Rep. Henry A. Waxman found I understand that abstinence that “two-thirds of the abstilooks good on paper, but it’s not nence-only education curricula working. We can’t leave it up to studied contained incorrect porn, the internet or religious scientific information regardthreats any longer to teach teening condom failure, sexually agers how to practice safe sex, transmitted diseases, the health and the very real consequences consequences of abortions, that occur without it.

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If you want to be a parent, act like one u By Velvet Jessen Opinion Editor

If you want to be in charge of your children or remain part of their lives, you need to stop acting like a child. Being a parent while divorced or married isn’t easy but throwing a fit about your situation isn’t gonna help either.

Not every relationship is perfect or meant to be forever and that’s OK. Co-parenting can be difficult but it is worth it if you really want to be in your children’s lives.

It’s hard to not be with someone you pictured spending your life with and it’s really hard to not be with your kids all the time and miss them growing up.

But sometimes life doesn’t work out quite like you think it will and you end up having to deal with those little things.

The best you can do from there is to act with humility and grace.

Accept your situation and move on in the best you can. Try and be a present positive person in your child’s life. Unfortunately, it often seems not many people can do that or are willing to.

Instead, you can find videos, comments, or - apparently - printed and sold books made by angry and indignant parents who would rather blame the world than take some initiative.

One stance often taken by angry, divorced dads is that the system that people go through with custody and divorce only benefits women. (I wonder who created the systems that assumed men wouldn’t want time with their kids?)

Now I’m glad for the dads that put in the time and effort with their kids and are fairly awarded custody or split custody. They deserve all good things.

However it’s often those that scream loudest who do the least to help themselves.

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Stephen Baskerville’s book, “Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family”, seems to be a handbook for those screamers. In his book he gives some advice on divorce and custody.

In his book he argues, nofault divorces exist to let women exploit men. (They exist because sometimes no one is the bad guy the relationship just doesn’t work.)

In family court men are punished for being absent or being abusive without confirming evidence. There aren’t really deadbeat dads. (I know a few people who would disagree.) And that dead-beat dads are an excuse for women to extort men for money.

He also says that women are just as likely to physically abuse their spouse and that men just do it when they are threatened with divorce or limited custody. (Because abuse is always a good way to keep a wife or access to your kids.) He also goes the traditional route and blames ‘radical feminists’ for saying divorce is OK. If you can read that and agree with him then maybe his book is for you, but if you want to keep a relationship with your kids, his book probably isn’t for you.

Instead of persuading change or making scholarly arguments, his book takes a route similar to break up albums.

Has a break up album ever

solved the problem? No, but listening to the album feels good when you’re not ready to get over your situation. His book is for people that aren’t ready to accept their situation.

So you’re no longer someone’s husband. That sucks but being bitter about it doesn’t help anyone.

It instead hurts everyone involved, including yourself.

What’s particularly shocking to me about this book is somehow not that he seems to suggest that abuse is OK if divorce is on the line. It is where I found the book.

I found an article on dadsdivorce.com talking about the book and while it’s not quite an endorsement it doesn’t do anything to discredit his potentially harmful statements. The only truly negative thing in the article is that it might not be ‘practical help’.

I think it’s time we call things as they are and stop giving anything that could make a tense situation worse, the time of day.

Preteens and teens are suffering in relationships u By Kamryn Kozisek Staff Editor

When we are children, adults are constantly warning us about stranger danger and how little kids get kidnapped and sold. We all knew that if an adult tried to be friends with us or try to touch us to tell a trusted adult.

But no one tells middle schoolers that a 20-year-old doesn’t think you are mature for your age and you don’t just ‘get’ him. No one tells high school boys that it’s bad to get a middle school girlfriend because girls your age don’t like you.

Once we grow out of our little kid phase and into our preteen phase, adults stop protecting us

and start blaming us. In sex-ed I remember being told a story about a 13-year-old who had a baby with a 17-year-old and the point of lesson? Absence.

Just don’t have sex until you are married.

When I was a senior in high school, I remember the guys in my class joking about ‘freshman head hunt.’ This is how they would make bets or discuss sleeping with the incoming freshman girls. They would talk about how hot they were and rate them like it was a joke. Other people I have spoken to had similar experiences.

Most girls I know, either know someone who was in a ‘relationship’ in middle school or as a freshman with a guy who was in

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his late teens or early 20s. They thought they were so cool and we thought they were cool.

Often their parents were aware and boiled it down to them testing boundaries or just liking older people. Kids use the example of their parents age gap to make it okay for five-year age gaps in

young relationships.

No one is telling kids that dating older people and letting them convince you to have sex could be considered rape.

At the same time, no one is telling kids that tricking someone or having to ‘convince’ them to have sex with you is rape.

At what point does it change?

When do we stop saying “adults are not supposed to touch kids like that” to “you shouldn’t have slept together.”

Is it when we get our own lockers and personalized schedules or is it when we grow into our bodies and start wearing makeup?

Is it when our hormones set in, is it when learn when sex is or is it when we start fighting with our

parents? When do parents stop worrying about pedophiles and start worrying about teen pregnancy instead?

Based on Nebraska Statute 28-319.01., only sexual penetration of someone younger than 12 by someone 19 or older or sexual penetration by someone 25 years or older on someone ages 12-16 falls under sexual assault in the first degree.

As someone who has siblings in middle school and high school, I do not want my siblings to go through being manipulated by someone older than them.

I want them to grow up with healthy expectation for relationships and to know when someone is manipulating them.

Lifestyles Press play on a magazine with “The French Dispatch”  By Velvet Jessen Staff Editor

In a 1:3:1 ratio of a poem, three stories, and an obituary; ‘The French Dispatch’ movie brings to life the last edition of its namesake.

The editor, Arthur Howitzer Jr., mandated that when he died that issue would be the last and it would be his obituary. ‘The French Dispatch’ manages to bring the pages of the magazine to life in only an hour and 48 minutes of run time.

Although not a perfect re-telling of the magazine or the members of magazine’s staff, the movie was inspired by the real magazine and its writers.

The first part of the magazine brought to life is a poem called ‘The Cycling Reporter’

by Herbsaint Sazerac and talks about Ennui-sur-Blasé. Ennuisur-Blasé is a town in France that Herbsaint describes as he bicycles through.

The town’s past versus its current state is compared by Sazerac as he visits important or interesting sites.

In Ennui-sur-Blasé, an average of eight and a half dead bodies are found dead in the town’s stream and that number didn’t even change with population growth.

The stores and areas may change but in both its forms the town appears to be dismal.

The next story shown is the

first of three stories told in the magazine. This story called ‘The Concrete Masterpiece’, written

by J. K. L. Berensen, paints the picture of the imprisoned and arguably insane – artist, Rosenthaler; and his prison guard and muse, Simone.

Rosenthaler was an unrecognized artist before being jailed for two counts of manslaughter, but his art only became famous after an art dealer jailed for tax evasion saw his work.

As soon as the art dealer leaves, he comes back to buy Rosenthaler’s paintings and so his story begins.

The second story told is called ‘Revisions to a Manifesto’, written by Lucinda Krementz.

Her story takes place in Ennui, which is the same dismal town described in the poem at the beginning of the movie.

Only now we see the town in chaos during the “Chessboard Revolution”.

The revolution may sound sophisticated; however, it found its start due to boys not being allowed in the girls’ dorms.

Krementz is in Ennui as the revolution happens and struggles to keep journalistic neutrality as she gets closer to the pretty face of the revolution, Zeffirelli.

The third story called ‘The Private Dining Room of the Po-

lice Commissioner’, written by Roebuck Wright, also happens in Ennui but this time recounts Wright’s own experience with the police and the kidnapping of the Commissaire’s son.

In the dim and crime ridden streets of Ennui the story follows the kidnapped boy, the kidnappers, the police, and one very dedicated chef.

Lastly, the obituary for the Editor, Arthur Howitzer Jr., is written by the staff.

In the telling of the previous stories small f lashfor wards would show Howitzer working with the writers and how their relationships started and grew. The obituary is really the entire movie and how he works with staff and the passion he had for his magazine.

In an age with movies that are constantly remakes, sequels or just a little too similar ideas ‘The French Dispatch’ stands out in the best way possible.

With its use of color, different aspect ratios, and switches between live action and cartoons ‘The French Dispatch’ lacks any reason to look at your phone or get distracted.

Although it’s not family friendly, I advise you to gather some friends, sit down and grab some popcorn cause this dispatch isn’t to be missed.

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CSC to perform “Crimes of the Heart”  By Madyson Schliep Reporter

Not seeing CSC’s Theatre Department’s newest play would be a crime.

“Crimes of the Heart” details the story of the three MaGrath sisters that reunite for the first time in over a decade. It promises serious drama under the scorching heat of the Mississippi sun, past resentments bubble to the surface and each sister must come to terms with the consequences of her own ‘crimes of the heart.’

Halle Smith, sophomore of Wheatland, Wyoming, plays Lenny, the older sister of the group who never left Hazelhurst. The middle sister, Meg, played by Bruk Binyam, left home to pursue stardom as a singer in Los Angeles. Babe the youngest, played by Olivia Freeze, sophomore of Bridgeport, has just been arrested for murder.

Smith said that she is most excited

for this production because there will be accents involved which she says will be fun for both the audience and the cast.

Cheyenne Bacon who plays Chick, the sisters first cousin, is very excited for this production because although she has been a member of the theatre department for 3 years this is their first time on center stage.

“I’m excited to be back on stage,” they said. “It’s my passion to be there and collaborating with my classmates is a fun learning experience.”

“Not to be generic, but these are truly shows you shouldn’t miss,” Samuel LaRive, senior of Hot Springs, South Dakota said.

LaRive plays Doc, Meg’s old boyfriend. He said he is excited for this to be his first serious acting role.

“Crimes of the Heart” debuts Feb. 17 in the Black Box Theatre. Tickets are available online to reserve for free at csc.edu/theater until seats fill.

New Story Beats section looking for student submissions The Eagle is teaming up with Tenth Street Miscellany to bring a new creative writing section to the paper. ‘Story Beats’ is a student submitted segment beginning Spring 2022 that can be found in Lifestyles.

Students from all majors are encouraged to submit their creative writing, from non-fiction to poetry and everything in between.

Anything is submittable for a chance to have your work published in the paper. The word count maximum for a one page piece is 500 words and 1000 words for a two page piece. Pieces that are part of a series are also encouraged.

We just ask that the series be completed before submission so that it can be featured as a weekly piece.

Email your submission to lifestyles@csceagle.com. All submissions are subject to rejection.

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By Kamryn Kozisek, Staff Editor

Photo by Madyson Schliep

Knox Smith and Joslyn Smith test their spaceship on turn table at the Sun, Earth, Universe exhibit in the Mari Sandoz High Plains Center, Jan. 13.

Visitors can shoot for the stars at the Mari Sandoz High Pla Heritage Center with their newest exhibit Sun, Earth, Univer The first group of visitors to the new exhibit were the ch dren with the CSC Child Development Center (CDC). Childr were able to explore space and learn about technology used NASA. Students are welcome to visit the exhibit where they c build model spaceships and test them using the exhibit. Th exhibit also includes activities that help teach about satellit telescopes and other topics in outer space.

“The exhibit is designed to be fun,” Mike Leite, CSC phy cal & life sciences professor said. “It gives people (not just ki a place to explore things like the NASA Mars rovers, studyi compositions of stars, Earth observation with satellites, how build a spacecraft, and there are lots of books to read. Visito will be excited because they will learn something new proba something they did not expect to learn.”

According to Leite, Sun, Earth, Universe was origina

Bridger Helmbrecht and Michaela Hill, junior of Eaton, Colorado, read a space book at the Sun, Earth, Universe exhibit in the Mari Sandoz HIgh Plains Center, Jan. 13.

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

Madison Franklin, junior of Alliance and Ronin Hunt attempt to find the sun Earth, Universe Exhibit at the Mari Sandoz High Plains Hertiage Center, Jan

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“Turns out, the Sandoz space is ideal for this exhibit and offers lots more for people to do while there,” Leite said.

This exhibit was produced by the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and was sent to museums using funding from the National Science Foundation, according to Leite.

The exhibit is open to the public Monday-Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m., Friday’s 10 a.m. to noon. Jan. 29, Feb. 12, March 19 and April 23 will have special visiting hours from 10 a.m. to noon.

“Good museum exhibits like this one should be fun and accessible and visitors should come away having learned something,” Leite said. “It’s almost as good as taking field trips to NASA labs or up in a balloon; people will be able to learn in a non-threatening setting. Best yet, they won’t think they are learning because they are having so much fun.”

Dylan Kelso and Isabella Huber use one of the technology activites at the Sun, Earth, Universe exhibit at the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center, Jan. 13.

Photo by Madyson Schliep

Joslyn Smith looks through a telescope at one of the activites centers in the Sun, Earth, Universe exhibit at the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center, Jan. 13.

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Kanyon Stadler plays at the Sun, Earth, Universe exhibit at the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heratige Center, Jan. 13

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

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A buck deer runs near Briggs Pond on the Harold and LaVerne Thompson Natural History Preserve, Nov. 2, wildlife idefication and tracking is one of many topics to be discussed during February by Game and Parks Commission.

Game and Parks releases event list for February u By Kamryn Kozisek Ag and Range Editor

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission recently released a list of education events for February, both virtually and in-person.

Events for children include Nature Tales Story Times, Backyard Bird Count and a Homeschool Hike.

Nature Tales Story Times is for pre-K aged children occurring Feb. 1 and 8 at 10 a.m. This event will include outdoor educators from Game and Parks reading nature-themed books over Zoom. Feb. 1 theme is clouds and Feb. 8 is snails.

Each webinar is available on the Nebraska Game and Parks YouTube Education Channel.

The Backyard Bird Count will be hosted by Little Saplings early childhood program at the Schramm Education Center in Gretna, 9 a.m.

Feb. 2. The program is for children ages 2-5 and will feature the centers bird feeders for identifying species.

The Schramm Park State Recreation Area will be hosting a Homeschool Hike Feb. 16 at 9 a.m. The hike will be guided by an outdoor educator and all homeschool families will be able to attend.

Events for adults hosted by game and parks include an All About Amphibians workshop, The Science of … series, virtual wildlife tracking, Insect Investigations workshop, Nature Nerd Night, Nature Math workshop, Nature Experience learning Centers training, Plantology workshop and an invasive species speaker series.

All about Amphibians educator workshop begins at 6 p.m. Feb. 2 and will discuss Nebraskan amphibian species and ecology related to them. At the end of the workshop each educator will receive a curriculum guide, two hours of in-service and amphibian educational merchandise.

Each Thursday Game and Parks will be releasing a virtual webinar called The Science of… at 3 p.m. Each webinar will have a topic, Feb. 3 is geology and fossils, Feb. 10 is mussels, Feb. 17 is

rodents and Feb. 24 is earthworms.

While the event is free, registration is required.

Virtual wildlife tracking Feb. 5 is a part of the Snowy Saturday Series. This workshop premiers on Facebook live at 9 a.m. and will teach participants how to identify wildlife tracks.

Insect Investigations educator workshop begins at 6 p.m. Feb. 9 and is for educators of kindergarten through fourth grade. Insect anatomy, life cycles and supplemental activities will all be discussed during the workshop, two hours of in-service will also be provided.

Nature Nerd Night will be discussing animal pair bonding and reproduction starting at 7 p.m. Feb. 15. Registration for the virtual event is required but the recorded feed will be posted on Nebraska Game and Parks YouTube Education Channel. Nature Nerd Night is for adults and occurs on the third Tuesday of each month.

Nature Math educator workshop is used as a tool to teach math concepts that are found in nature to kindergarten through fourth grade.

The event begins at 6 p.m. Feb. 16 and will include lessons and Math and Nature literature books.

Nature Experience Learning Centers educator training educators of kindergarten through fourth grade and will cover animal tracks and identification. The workshop begins at 1 p.m.

Feb. 21 and activities will be included.

Plantology educator workshop on Feb. 23 at 6 p.m. will cover hands-on activities for teaching observation skills. Plant related literature books, activity guide and two hours in-service will be provided.

The final education event is the invasive species series for Schramm Sunday Speaker series. This event begins 2 p.m. Feb 27 at the Schramm Education Center in Gretna and will feature Allison Zach, program coordinator for the Nebraska Invasive Species Program.

Event registration and information for all events is available on the Game and Parks Website at calendar.outdoornebraska.gov.

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Eagles lose while on the road u By Mackenzie Dahlberg Sports Editor

File photo by Mackenzie Dahlberg

Olivia Waufle (10), right, freshman of Thornton, Colorado, and Bailey Brooks (21), middle, senior of Douglas, Wyoming, pressures Mountaineer Emmery Wagstaff (3), senior of Evanston, Wyoming, during the women’s basketball game against Western Colorado University, Saturday, Dec. 4 in the Chicoine Center.

Chadron State women’s basketball team battled against Western Colorado University after the game was moved back to 1 p.m., Sunday, but take a tough loss to the Mountaineers in overtime, 83-80.

The Eagles quickly fell behind by nine points from the start until Samiyah Worrell, junior of Fountain, Colorado, got the ball rolling for the Eagles after nearly four minutes passed.

CSC quickly cut down Western Colorado’s lead to tie the game in the first quarter following a good three-pointer from Jori Peters, senior of Mitchell.

The lead changed 20 times and scores tied 14 times throughout the game, finishing the first half at 3636, and at 66-66 by the end of regular play.

Despite the Mountaineers scoring the first points of the night, Worrell made a three-pointer to push the team in the lead by a point.

Worrell led the Eagles with 24 points, being eight of 17 for field

goals, four of 10 for three-pointers and four of seven at the free-throw line.

Ashayla Powers, freshman of Longmont, Colorado, put 17 points on the board with six field goals and five free-throws. She also had five rebounds, three being offensive.

Peters was the third Eagle to reach double digits with 13 points, being 100% from both the arc and the free-throw line with three and two respectively.

The Eagles were unable to break their current streak of losses and fell short to Black Hills State University in a low scoring game, 5745, Tuesday in Spearfish, South Dakota.

Peters led the night with nine points, once again being 100% from the arc with two shots and making her only free throw.

Worrell; Olyvia Pacheco, junior of Rawlins, Wyoming, and Bailey Brooks, senior of Douglas, Wyoming, were three players that weren’t far behind Peters with seven points each.

The Eagles return to the Chicoine Center to take on South Dakota School of Mines at 5:30 p.m., Saturday, followed by Westminster University at 2 p.m., Monday.

Track continues to succeed in the new year u By CSC Sports Information Chadron State College athletes won 10 events during the Myrle Hanson Open Indoor Track and Field Meet at Black Hills State in Spearfish on Saturday. The meet was the first of the New Year for each of the four teams that participated.

Two Eagles won two events apiece. They are sophomores Carlie Collier of Dunning, who swept the women’s 60 and 200-meter dashes, and Morgan Fawver of McCook, who won the men’s 60 dash and long jump.

Collier’s winning time of 7.97 seconds in

the 60 is a personal best. That’s significant since she was unable to compete last year because of an injury. She won the 200 in 26.47, two-tenth of a second ahead of the second-place time.

Fawver won the men’s 60 in 6.80 seconds, matching his best time of a year ago, when he consistently placed high in the sprints and missed qualifying for nationals in the 60 by two one-hundredths of a second. He won the long jump Saturday by going 22-3 ½.

Other event winners among the Chadron State men were sophomore Logan Peila of Miles City, Mont., 200 meters; Greg Logsdon of Yoder, Wyo., 400; Reid Spady of Oshkosh, shot put; and Derrrick Nwagwu of Aurora,

Colo., triple jump.

Peila also was the runner-up in the 60 high hurdles, while Logsdon was just a fraction of an inch behind Peila in the 200, and won the 400 by 2 ½ seconds.

Spady’s winning shot put exceeded his best of a year ago, when he was a freshman, by 18 inches.

The Eagles dominated the long and triple jumps. Seniors Brock Voth of Berthoud, Colo., and Joss Linse of Plattsmouth, Neb., placed second and third, respectively, in both of those events behind only Fawver and Nwagwu.

CSC’s Alec Penfield of Lusk, Wyo., cleared 6-4 ¼ while placing second in the high jump.

Another high jumper from Lusk, senior

Miranda Gilkey, cleared 5-3 ½ to win the women’s event at the season-opener. Three younger teammates shared second by going over 5-1 ¼.

The other event winner, for the women, was freshman Danae Rader of Hansen, Neb., who won the 60 high hurdles in 9.58 seconds.

Another promising newcomer, Caydince Groth of Cheyenne, Wyo., was third in both the 60 and 200 dashes.

A much larger contingent of Eagles will compete at South Dakota State University’s gigantic meet this coming Saturday, CSC Coach Riley Northrup said. The Eagles will host their annual Don Holst Open Meet the following Saturday, Jan. 29.

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CSC men’s basketball team put 107 points on the board against Western Colorado University, the most points the Eagles have stacked on a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference opponent in 19 years with five Eagles reaching double digits and beating the Mountaineers, 107-96.

“It was exciting to see our guys attack the basket,” Shane Paben, head men’s basketball coach, said. “We went at them, we were the aggressors.”

KJ Harris, junior of McKinney, Texas, lead the team with his season best of 23 points. He was seven of eight for field goals and three of four for three pointers. Harris was one of two players to be 100% from the freethrow line with six shots.

Marcus Jefferson, junior of Lewisville, Texas, hit a double-double night by scoring 18 points and crashing the boards for 10 rebounds to lead the team.

CJ Jennings, senior of Colorado Springs; Mason Hiemstra, junior of Alliance; and Porter Anderson, sophomore of Russellville, Arkansas, were two points above one another with 17, 15 and 13 points respectively.

“It felt good to hit double figures on Saturday especially it being my first game back in almost two weeks,” Hiemstra said.

“I was mainly just happy to get the win on the road.”

Paben said Hiemstra has had bad luck with his season and being able to suit up for games.

“But that’s just pretty much our season,” he said. “If we wouldn’t have bad luck, we wouldn’t have luck at all.”

Jennings was the second player for the Eagles to be 100% from the free-throw line with seven attempts.

Jennings carried his game into Tuesday’s game to lead the Eagles with 21 points against Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota. He built the lead up to 48-43 with three baskets from the arc in the first five minutes of the second

Women’s wrestling,

File photo by Mackenzie Dahlberg

KJ Harris (23), junior of McKinney, Texas, shoots against the arms of a Griffin defenders during the men’s basketball game against Westminster University Saturday night in the Chicoine Center.

half.

“I thought we played a really good 23 minutes,” Paben said.

“They (BHSU) are a good team, and you have to put together 40 minutes to win a game. Our lack of depth really hurts us too.”

Jefferson was the only other Eagle to hit double digits against BHSU with 16 points.

CSC started off strong, scoring the first points of the game and finishing the first half with a one-point lead, 35-34.

The Eagles weren’t able to hold onto their lead when the Yellow Jackets soared past when their shots started sinking. CSC wasn’t able to catch back up and took the loss, 83-65.

“In the second half, they (BHSU) just had a couple good runs, and we had some shots that didn’t fall for us that usually do.” Hiemstra said. “They got some momentum and we just never seemed to get it back late in the second half,” CSC face South Dakota School of Mines at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday in the Chicoine Center, following the woman’s basketball team.

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Maddison Christiansen, freshman of Oshkosh, and Jeslyn Jindra, junior of Box Elder, South Dakota, joined on the road as well.

Christiansen took on NAIA’s No. 1 Oklahoma City University’s Destiny Lyng, senior of La Mesa, California, and was pinned by the top-ranked wrestler.

Jindra was also pinned in her 155-pound matches taking on Menlo College’s Alia Abushi, sophomore of San Leandro, California, in her opening match.

“I’ve been having a lot of fun being on an all-girls team so far,” Dye said. “I’ve never been on a girl’s wrestling team before, so it is definitely different, but also really comforting.”

Jeffery said the team is focusing on amplifying strengths and getting rid of little mistakes that are causing some troubles on the mat.

The women’s wrestling team is currently scheduled to travel to dual against Colorado Mesa University Friday in Grand Junction.

“This dual against Colorado Mesa is a big deal for us because this is going to be the first time that two RMAC schools with women’s wrestling have had competed in a dual against each other,” Jeffery said. “Hopefully this will spark some ideas and get some of these other RMAC schools interested and get on board with women’s wrestling.”

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CSC men’s wrestling team watches its teammate Darwin Hull, front, freshman of Schertz, Texas, during the men’s wrestling dual against Adams State University, Thursday in the Chicoine Center.

Eagles protect their home mat

u By Mackenzie Dahlberg Sports Editor

Chadron State men’s wrestling team takes two more dual wins, remaining undefeated in the Chicoine Center after wrestling against No. 13 Adams State University on Thursday and New Mexico Highlands University on Friday.

“I think this is one of the best teams I’ve been a part of, and it shows,” No. 10 Mason Watt, redshirt junior of Broomfield, Colorado, said. “We have great wrestlers throughout the entire line up. So that’s what I accredit all the wins toward.”

The Eagles split matches against the Grizzlies, winning five Thursday and taking the dual, 23-17.

Rowdy Pfeil, sophomore of Moorcroft, Wyoming, started off the night with a technical fall win in three minutes, 16-0.

With three points ahead of Adams State, Darwin Hull, freshman of Schertz, Texas, finished out the night and battled through all three periods of his 174-pound match, finishing over Cody Lewis, redshirt junior of Mesa, Arizona, by one point, 11-10, and securing the win over Adams State.

Colter Julian, sophomore of Kem-

merer, Wyoming, also won his match in the 133-weight class with a technical fall over Jimizan Redhorse, redshirt junior of St. Michaels, Arizona, in the third period.

CSC returned to the mat and saddled up against New Mexico Highlands University, taking nine of the matches and winning the dual, 46-3.

“I’ve been happy to see the effort given by my team,” Watt said. “Even if we lose the match, I can count on the fact that full effort was given.”

Hull topped off his strong performance when he returned to the mat against New Mexico Highlands University, Friday. He contributed six points to the Eagles by pinning Cowboy Allen Michel, redshirt sophomore of Moriarty, New Mexico, within the first period. Dull received the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Wrestler of the Week.

Watt put six points on the board both nights with a forfeit win on Thursday and pinning Cowboy Julian Sanchez, redshirt junior of Colorado Springs, with a second left in the first period Friday.

Quade Smith, freshman of Layton, Utah, also earned the team six points in the 125-weight class by pinning his New Mexico Highland’s opponent a little over two minutes.

Eli Hinojosa, redshirt junior of Imperial, battled through the three periods against Jayden Johnson, freshman of Salt Lake City, Utah. Hinojosa finished with a major decision win, 15-7.

Brody Lamb, sophomore of Wellington, Colorado, and Dean Neff, redshirt freshman of Jefferson, Wisconsin, took decision wins over the Cowboys they wrestled against Friday night, each contributing three team points.

“My focus for this next dual is to wrestle well in the neutral position and ultimately to get the win,” Watt said. “As a team, I think out main focus needs to be getting those bonus points and not giving them up. That’s where effort comes into play.”

Watt said he has a lot of concerns regarding COVID-19 and wasn’t sure the likelihood of the team being able to attend Colorado duals.

The RMAC announced that upcoming CSC men’s wrestling duals against Western Colorado University tonight and Colorado Mesa University Friday have been postponed on Friday in accordance with the league’s COVID-19 protocols.

The next meet for the Eagles is currently scheduled to wrestle against Colorado State University-Pueblo on Saturday, Jan. 29 in the Chicoine Center.

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

Cowboy Lance Killgore, front, junior of Tucson, Arizona, throws Dean Neff, redshirt freshman of Jefferson, Wisconsin, down toward the mat during the men’s wrestling dual against New Mexico Highlands University, Friday in the Chicoine Center.

Photos by Mackenzie Dahlberg

ABOVE: Eli Hinojosa, redshirt junior of Imperial, keeps his feet inbounds while pushing on his opponent during the men’s wrestling dual against New Mexico Highlands University, Friday in the Chicoine Center.

LEFT: Mason Watt, redshirt junior of Broomfield, Colorado, locks his opponent’s head in his arm during the men’s wrestling dual against New Mexico Highlands University, Friday in the Chicoine Center.

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Quade Smith, right, freshman of Layton, Utah, tackles his opponent down toward the mat during the men’s wrestling dual against Adams State University, Thursday night in the Chicoine Center.

Photo by Mackenzie Dahlberg

Brody Lamb, sophomore of Wellington, Colorado, fights against his opponent’s hold during the men’s wrestling dual against Adams State University, Thursday night in the Chicoine Center.

Photo by Mackenzie Dahlberg

Rowdy Pfeil, right, sophomore of Moorcroft, Wyoming, rolls back on the mat, attempting to move his opponent, Cowboy Lance Killgore, junior of Tucson, Arizona, to his back during the men’s wrestling dual against New Mexico Highlands University, Friday in the Chicoine Center.

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