The Eagle E-Edition, Nov. 10, 2022

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Eagles

lose to Colorado Mesa at home

CSC lost in overtime, 3738 on a two point coversion, despite leading in the rst half Please see page 13

Volleyball ends on a losing streak

The Eagles lost back to back home games to nish out the season against Black Hills State Please see

New Chemistry Club to hold its rst meeting

Tuesday, Nov. 22

The Chemistry Club invites all students interested in chemistry to the rst meeting held in the Math Science COIL lecture hall Please see page 3

CSC hosts 59th Scholastic Contest

 By Aubrie Lawrence Editor-in-Chief

On Wednesday, high school students from 24 di erent schools came to campus to participate in the rst Scholastic Contest since 2019.

Students are tested in subjects such as literature, business, math, science, music, education and psychology. e students that do the best in their subjects are o ered scholarships to CSC.

Final school and individual rankings will be posted online on Wednesday, Nov. 16.

While they waited for their tests, students were able to attend a multitude

of di erent activities on campus. A club and department fair was held in the Student Center Balllroom, where clubs like KNOCS and eSports had games for students.

Students could also play ping pong and pool in e Pit, play video games in the electronic gaming rooms located in the King Library basement, get tours of campus and visit the Veath Planetarium in the Math Science Center of Innovative Learning (COIL). e contest, which was set to begin at 8:30 a.m., was pushed back to 10:30 a.m. because of icy weather conditions.

Photo by Isaiah Wyatt

CSC Maintenance Worker Gregory Krotz, 39, of Chadron, cuts up a two-story tall spruce tree that was downed by Monday’s wind storm. The tree was located on the northeast corner of Old Admin.

Campus closed Monday due to 70 mph winds

 By Kennie Gable Reporter

November 7, the wind reached up to 70 mph reeking havoc. e gust of wind disturbed morning classes with the gust making noises rattle through the windows. Around 9:30 a.m. the power went out across campus.

At 9:55 a.m. the college sent out a text to students and faculty stating that “CSC is experiencing a power outage. All classes scheduled for 10 a.m. are now canceled.”

e wind continued to whip through the town causing power to go out in several neighborhoods and businesses.

At 10:41 a.m. all classes were canceled for the day as well as the closing of 12th and Main Streets.

All public schools and daycares closed after lunch for safety precautions due to the power and wind.

Damages were tremendous from the windstorm. Trees were broken across campus, along

with a tree falling right by the corner of the Old Admin building. It laid across the walkway to Memorial Hall.

e Fire Departments roof ew o the building as a result of the wind as well as power lines falling across the town.

is resulted in a town wide power outage as Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) tried to x damaged power lines.

Students were noti ed at 2:28 p.m. that power was to be shut o city-wide at 2:30 p.m. Residents were urged to stay o of streets with a travel advisory.

Streets were black with no street signs, gas stations were closed and houses without power led to a long day for the town.

e power was turned back on about 8:00 p.m. and the wind died down around 8:30 p.m.

“We are still accessing the damages from the wind storm,” stated Kari Gaswick.

A clean up crew and several workers picked up campus Tuesday morning trying to get the damages cleaned before classes began.

BRIEFS

Applications for CSCEA scholarship close Nov. 11

Applications for the College Education Association (CSCEA) scholarship will be closing Friday, Nov. 11.

e scholarship, which is funded by CSCEA faculty members, provides two students with $500 scholarships for the spring 2023 semester. In order to apply, students must have completed a minimum of 30 credit hours; be a full-time, undergraduate student during the spring semester working on their rst undergraduate degree; and have not previously received a CSCEA scholarship.

e application form is available in the Start O ce located in Crites Hall or at https://www.csc.edu/media/website/content-assets/documents/pdf/start/CSCEAScholarship2023.pdf.

Applications must be submitted to Gregory Moses, assistant professor of mathematics and natural sciences, in the Math Science Center of Innovative Learning (COIL) Room 140 by 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11.

TIMBER: A student walks next to a blown over spruce tree located on the northeast corner of Old Admin Monday morning.

Photo by Kayden Singpiel

Photo by Kayden Singpiel

A spruce tree blown over by 70 mph winds blocks the sidewalk in front of Old Admin Monday morning.

Chemistry Club to hold its rst meeting Nov. 22

e new Chemistry Club will be holding its rst meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 22, at 11:30 a.m. in the Math Science Center of Innovative Learning (COIL) lecture hall.

e club was unanimously approved by CAB representatives during last week’s meeting. Club President Brianna Smith, 20, sophomore of Vivian, South Dakota, says that all students that are interested in chemistry and want to learn about it are welcome to join.

“Students should join the chemistry club to engage with other students interested in chemistry,” Smith said. “We are looking at doing various professional development events for our members.”

Along with professional development for science students, Smith said the club will be holding various events around campus like experiment nights and serving nitrogen ice cream.

She hopes that, as the club grows, it would be associated with the American Chemical Society (ACS), a nonpro t scienti c organization that is one of the world’s largest societies and home to the top chemistry professionals, the ACS website states.

“I decided to start chemistry club because our adviser had talked about having one and I had seen other colleges have one as well,” Smith said. “We are hoping to become associated with the American Chemical Society, which would open the doors to resources and events to our members.”

After its rst meeting, Smith said that the club will meet monthly.

Zach Shaw, 22, junior of Omaha, (left) helps clean up storm debris outside of Sparks Hall from Monday’s wind storm with CSC staff members Jason Blanford, 43, and Greg Krotz, 39.

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By Aubrie Lawrence Editor-in-Chief

News

LEFT: Student drawings on the free speech giant beach ball at Turning Point’s booth at the Scholastic Contest club fair.

RIGHT: A member of the Esports team plays video games at the Scholastic Contest Club Fair Wednesday.

A high school student draws on a free speech giant beach ball at Turning Point’s booth at Wednesday morning’s Scholastic Contest club and department fair.

High school students on campus for Scholastic Contest Wednesday morning gather around a ping pong table in The Pit.

Photos by Aubrie Lawrence

As We See It

The future shouldn’t be virtual

For the past few months I have been bombarded by the Meta commercial every time I try to watch TV.

In it, actors depict the future of education, farming, medicine and the study of history. All of it taking place in the metaverse.

I think that, while technol ogy has its perks, it shouldn’t become our entire reality like this commercial would suggest.

While I would love to see farmers be able to correctly predict the yield they will have from each of their fields, I don’t think the metaverse is going to help it.

There is no way that virtual reality will be able to correctly predict weather patterns or soil fertility. Those are things we have been trying to predict for centuries, and the closest thing we have to understanding it is the Farmers Almanac.

Weather can be unpredict able, and no virtual simulation is going to change that.

Medicine is also something I think needs to stay within our reality. Simulating surgery would be an excellent educa tional tool for teaching anatomy and how to perform a surgery.

But we should still use the tools that we already have at our disposal.

People have been donating their bodies for medical stu dents to study for a long time, and I think they provide a more in-depth view of what an actual human looks like. Our insides rarely look like the models, and surgeries sometimes have unex pected issues. If we fall back on technology, we might be putting a lot more patients at risk.

Don’t even get me started on using technology as the backbone of education. It works great until we have city-wide power outages (take Monday as an example) and we are unable to get any work done.

Technology and virtual re ality simply create a disconnect

As You Said It!

We asked: What did you do during the blackout?

from humanity that I don’t know if I can fully get on board with.

The new mov ie “Don’t Worry Darling” illustrates some of the harms of virtual reality per fectly. The film is a commentary on not only online groups focused on reversing time and recreating a “better” time in U.S. society, but it also touches on the effects of living in a virtual simulation.

For a majority of the movie, the main character, Alice (Flor ence Pugh) can’t tell what is real and what isn’t, which is all part of the grand scheme of things.

In the movie, men who are a bit insecure in their masculinity use the advanced technology to make things the way they want it, regardless of if it hurts some body else along the way.

In virtual reality, we lose our

selves, our conscience and the beauty that the world has to offer.

Another example of this is the book “Ready Player One,” which was adapted into a movie in 2018.

In it, author Ernist Cline describes a gray world that has fallen into shambles, with people using a virtual world to replace it.

Reality in the book has be come so corrupt, that the peo ple there would rather pretend everything is fine in VR than fix the actual problems.

I could list several more books and movies that all have the same warning signs.

Replacing the real world with a screen will only make things worse in the end. Technology is a beautiful tool that can make us so much more intelligent, but it shouldn’t become our only future.

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As We See It

Look to the stars and lose a little sleep

u By Velvet Jessen Opinion Editor

As the moon rises and is cov ered in shadow, we can remember that sometimes we have our own shadows to pass through. But pass through them we will, by losing a little sleep.

Tuesday morning was the last total lunar eclipse until March 14, 2025. My mom passed down her love of the stars and the moon to me and my sister. So, at midnight when I was done with homework, I set my alarm for 2:30 a.m, laid out a blanket, hot hands, my glasses and keys at the foot of my bed and then slept until my alarm went off. I woke up more ready to get out

of the bed at two in the morning than most days when I have class at 10 a.m. I drove out past houses so that I could see the stars and just sat and watched for an hour.

If you don’t like astronomy, you probably think that was an insane idea. Who disrupts their entire night of sleep to watch Earth’s shadow fall on the moon?

I asked myself that question while I was Googling the times that the eclipse was going to happen. But at the end of the day the answer is simple.

Someone who found something worth disrupting their sleep.

For me watching stars, eclipses, or meteor showers are worth dis rupting my sleep. For other people it might be watching that baseball

game to its last inning, no matter how late it goes. Or maybe it’s some thing simple like staying up all night with a friend talking until you’re so tired that words don’t make sense and everything is funny.

No matter what it is that you deem worth ruining a night of sleep, I say that every once in a while, you should treat yourself to it.

Yes, it will ruin an entire night of sleep and you’ll probably be exhausted halfway through the day, but if you don’t let yourself do the things you love, you’re going to be exhausted anyways.

If you only live life doing what others ask, then what’s left for you?

I once saw a quote somewhere that said, “We’re all going to die someday, you may as well do something for yourself for once.”

I don’t think enough people have heard that quote.

You can live your life helping people if that’s what you love to do, but you have to help yourself

too. If you only focus on others or what the next assignment is without taking care of yourself, you’ll find yourself overshadowed with expec tations and work.

But just like the moon and Earth’s shadow, it’s just a phase that you can pass through.

Some people would say good sleep will help heal. And I do agree, objectively, good sleep will help. But having something to wake up excited for or having those experiences you love that ruin your sleep for a day heal just as much too.

You can sleep every night or even take a nap during the day, but you can only see that eclipse in person once. Live life while you can and go lose some sleep with something you love.

How to do what you hate

u By Abigail Swanson Guest Columnist

College is challenging, involved and sometimes unpleasant.

Getting through is hard and keeps being hard. No matter how many forum posts I write, I still hate every one.

But I keep doing them. Every week I do unpleasant things for school, for work and for myself. I detest running with three-quar ters of my soul, but I still do it.

So, I wanted to share some of the strategies I’ve learned to get through the week.

Remember your why. Zoom out and look at why you wanted to take that class, get that degree, or

be in college at all.

What keeps you coming back?

My why is the Chadron com munity. I want to continue work ing and participating in this com munity, and that means doing my homework day in and day out. (I’m also stubborn and hate failing even more than I hate homework.)

Mitigate your hate.

Look at why you dislike a task and see if you can work around it. For me, that means printing so I don’t have to read off a screen or typing in Times New Roman be fore changing to the prescribed font.

Control what you can control.

I have to read textbooks, but I do control when, how, and where I read them.

I’ve taken trips to coffee shops

to start papers, found the best place in my apartment to drudge through Learn Smarts and joined Zoom meetings outside. I can play a soundtrack that sounds like I’m adventuring in distant lands rath er than just reading about the dif ferent methods of evaluating the

corporate environment of a busi ness, or put on a podcast to take my mind off running.

Reward good habits.

Bribery is one of the more effec tive motiva tors in my experience.

Maybe I’ll make a really good supper af ter finishing a project or eat icecream at the end of a workday. I love giving myself the weekend (or just a day) off homework if I finish the week early.

Find something small and mo

tivating to give you an extra nudge. Just try.

Sometimes there are no other options than just starting. For me, that’s the worst part of projects. Occasionally, once I have the first paragraph written or the first question an swered, I realize it wasn’t as bad as I imagined it to be. And if not, at least I’m 20 min utes closer to be ing done than I was before.

I hope you genuinely enjoy most of the things put before you, but if you come across something unpleasant, maybe try a tip or two.

Velvet Jessen

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“Look at why you dislike a task and see if you can work around it.”

- Abigail Swanson

Abigail Swanson

Ag&Range

Western fall wildlife

ABOVE: A mule deer buck grazes through willows in Pinedale Wyoming, Nov. 7.

RIGHT: A small herd of mule deer move through the winter frost near Briggs Pond, Nov. 9.

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

A grazing bison moves across the hills with its herd in Wind Cave National Park, Nov. 8.

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

GAMES

CSC ended the home seasons for both volleyball military appreciation and volleyball was faculty

Joyce Hardy, proffessor of physical and life sciences hugs Micaiah Vrbka, senior of Brainard, while holding a gift bag during the faculty appreciation night before the home volleyball game against South Dakota Mines, Nov. 4, in the Chicoine Center.

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

GAMES OF THE YEAR

LEFT: Team captains from both Colorado Mesa and CSC, includ ing Brendan Brehmer (26), senior of Alliance, and Jalen Starks (34), senior of Chicago, wait for the coin toss done by military members as part of the military appreciation game, Nov. 4.

RIGHT: Aksel Turk, Nesodden, Norway, looks towards his es cort during senior day before CSC’s last home game against Colorado Mesa, Nov. 4, in Don Bebee Stadium.

LEFT: Members of the 1057 Kuwait Military police stand to be recog nized during the last home football game for military appreciation day, Nov. 5 in Don Bebee Stadium.

RIGHT: Members of CSC women athletics pose with women alumni that played sports at CSC during Title IX 50th anniversary celebration during halftime of the home game against Colorado Mesa, Nov. 5 in Don Bebee Stadium.

volleyball and football with the games of the year, the home football game was deemed faculty appreciation, both games celebrated the 50th anniversary of Title IX legislation.

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

Sheri Grint, an alumni of Chadron State College that participated in sports waves at the crowd during the Title IX appreciation night at the home volleyball game against South Dakota Mines, Nov. 4, in the Chicoine Center.

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

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Frosty landscapes Ag&Range

Fremont lake sits in front of snow and fog covered mountains, outside of Pinedale, Wyoming, Nov. 7.

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

A frosty pair of yucca plants near the sidewalk on the walking trail near Briggs pond the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 9.

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek A tree with frosted needled tips outside of the mail room, Nov. 9.

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

The head of a plant sparkles with frost, Wednesday morning, near Briggs pond.

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

Power outage pulls plug on eSports

There could be some adjustments to the rules to be made to allow for scenarios which prohibit teams from playing due to factors out of their control.”

The CSC Eagle eSports Rocket League team had their season detrimentally affected after Monday’s pow er outage forced them to forfeit their match against the Florida State University Seminoles, which ruined their hopes of an undefeated regular season.

“It’s just an unfortunate situation for us,” CSC eS ports Student Head Coach Drew Kurtenbach stated in a text. “I think it’s tough to really say one easy solution.

At about 4:30 p.m. Monday, just two hours into the power outage, the Eagles were faced with the difficult challenge of rescheduling their match with the Semi noles. The Seminole team was unwilling to reschedule the match to Tuesday, securing a victory for themselves and a higher playoff seed.

Hometown: Callaway

Class: Freshman Sport: Wrestling

Bloomer had a strong showing in Grand Junction, Colorado, at the Colorado Mesa Open. She won two of her three matches, pinning her opponent in both, which was good enough to earn her runner-up in the 170 weight division.

Photo by Eben Rosentrater

eSports at Work: Members of the CSC Eagle eSports team warm up, practice, and compete in their respective games, on Nov. 1, in the eSports room, in Miller Hall 201.

Sports

Eagles lose in overtime heartbreaker, 3-7 on season

u By Eben Rosentrater Sports Editor

The CSC football team dropped their seventh game this season as a great first half on both sides of the ball by the Eagles was not good enough to hold off a game-winning comeback by the Colorado Mesa Mavericks last Saturday.

“It was a heartbreaker for our guys, and particu larly, the 15 seniors who were playing their last game at home,” CSC Head Football Coach Jay Long told CSC Sports Information. “I feel horrible for them.”

Hopes were high for the Eagles to find their fourth win of the season against the lower-ranked Maver icks after a tough defensive 17-3 win over the Cow boys of New Mexico Highlands. Despite an amazing first half, the Eagles hopes were swept away, losing 37-38 on two-point conversion in overtime.

The game started off very slowly. The Eagles re ceived the opening kickoff and preceded to be shut down by the Mavericks going three-and-out to start. The Mavericks received the ball and methodically pushed down the field with a combination of quick

passes and strong runs, however, the Eagles were stout and held Mesa to a 40-yard field goal which was drilled by Lucas Ruiz Diaz, senior of Montrose, Col orado, giving the Mavericks their only lead of regu lation.

After that, the entire first half was all Eagles. The following drive, the team was able to take the ball down to the seven-yard line to set up a 22-yard chip shot field goal for kicker Gunnar Jones, graduate stu dent of Rogersville, Alabama.

The Eagles seemed unstoppable for the second quarter. Quarterback Heath Beemiller, junior of Chandler, Arizona, drove the ball down to the oneyard line where running back Jalen Starks, senior of Chicago, rumbled in for the first touchdown of the game. The next Eagle drive ended the same way with a 12-yard passing touchdown to receiver Ahlonte Hair, junior of Live Oak, Florida, which was his fourth touchdown of the year. Starks rumbled in for another touchdown on the next drive to end the quarter leav ing the score 24-3 going into halftime. An amazing first half for the Eagles, scoring on every drive of the second quarter.

CSC receivers Jamal Browder (7), sophomore of Carol City, Florida, and Ahlonte Hair (1), junior of Live Oak, Florida, take a knee in prayer at the goal line before last Saturday’s game against the Colorado Mesa Mavericks at Don Beebe Stadium.

CSC running back Jalen Starks (34), senior of Chicago, runs and extends his arm out in order to shed an incoming Colorado Mines tackler during Saturday’s game against the Mavericks at Don Beebe Stadium.

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

from Page 13

The tide turned heavily against the Eagles in the sec ond half. The Mavericks opened up the third quarter throwing a 46-yard touchdown, scoring in six seconds, and making the score 24-10. The Mavericks threw an other long 47-yard touchdown after that to bring the score within seven points.

The Eagles weren’t done though and drove the ball down the field for a six-yard touchdown pass to Grant Swenson, sophomore of Broomfield, Colorado, mak ing the score 31-17. However, the Mavericks offense was steadfast and scored two more touchdowns in the fourth, tying the game and sending it to overtime.

The Mavericks received the first possession of over time. The Eagles’ defense was tough and held Mesa to a field goal’s distance. However, an unnecessary rough ness penalty by Tayven Bray, graduate student of High lands Ranch, Colorado, bailed out the Mavericks, who scored a touchdown on third and goal from the one.

The Eagles quickly responded back and scored a touchdown. The Mavericks, however, received an un

sportsmanlike conduct penalty, leaving the Eagles with a choice. Tie the game on an extra-point or win on a one-yard two-point conversion. The Eagles chose the ladder, and were stuffed at the one, losing 37-38.

Offensively, the Eagles were led by Beemiller, who passed for 191 yards on 24 completions and two touch downs. The rushing game was led by Dorian Collier, sophomore of Tallahassee, Florida, who ran for 80 yards on 13 attempts, averaging 6.2 yards per carry. The re ceiving corps was led by Tommy Thomas, redshirt freshman of Fort Collins, Colorado, who recorded 68 yards on six receptions.

Defensively, the Eagles were led by Hunter O’Con nor, sophomore of Broomfield, Colorado, who recorded seven tackles, two tackles-for-loss, and two sacks. Joey Geil, junior of Casper, Wyoming, also recorded another nine tackles, two tackles-for-loss, and one sack.

The Eagles will take the field for the last time this season against the Hardrockers of South Dakota Mines, in Rapid City, at noon Saturday, at O’Harra Stadium.

Cross country struggles in postseason meet

u Ahlonte Hair Reporter

The CSC cross country team started the postseason, going down to Durango, Colo rado, on Saturday for the 2022 RMAC Cross Country Championship.

The Eagles struggled at the meet, placing

13th out of 15 teams in the men’s division and 14th out of 15 teams in the women’s di vision.

Topi Alahuata, freshman of Pine, Colora do led the CSC men runners with a time of 27:29.4, which was good enough to earn him 72nd out 118 competitors.

Colorado School of Mines won the team title out of the men. Dillon Powell, redshirt

junior of Colorado Springs, Colorado, fin ished first out of the men individually.

Lexi Rule, freshman of Buffalo, Wyo ming, led the Eagle women, finishing 69th of 114 runners. She finished with a time of 25:11.3 in the 6k race. Stephanie Cotter, se nior of Cork, Ireland, finished first across the line for the Adam State Grizzlies with a time of 20:45.80. Behind her was her teammate

Adams State’s women won the team ti tle with five of the top seven runners in the division.

The Eagles will finish their season on Nov. 19 when they compete at the NCAA South Central Regionals in Denver.

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

Brianna Robles, senior of Palmview, Texas, coming in second place.

CSC running back Dorian Collier (11), sophomore of Tallahassee, Florida, looks downfield while avoiding Maverick tacklers during last Saturday’s game against the Mavericks at Don Beebe Stadium.

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek

CSC kicker Gunnar Jones, graduate student of Rogersville, Alabama, drills the ball during a field goal attempt to tie the game 3-3 last Saturday against the Colorado Mines Mavericks at Don Beebe Stadium.

eSports from Page 12

“It just comes downs to rules and not bending no matter the situation,” Kurtenbach stated. “It’s hard to get these matches scheduled away from the de fault time and trying to expect another team to be able to ac commodate us is tough.”

At about 8 p.m., power was restored. The team tried to re negotiate the match with FSU, but they refused. The Eagle Rocket League team ends their regular season 5-1 going into the playoffs.

Kurtenbach assured that despite the frustrating results of Monday, the team has never been more motivated to com pete after this situation.

“I think the whole situation motivated the team more than it frustrated them,” Kurtenbach stated. “I don’t think I’ve seen our team this dead set on our goal to win our divisional play offs.”

Playoffs for both the Rocket League and Call of Duty teams begin next week on Monday and Wednesday. The teams are available to watch on Twitch at www.twitch.tv/Chadron_State_ Esports.

Men’s wrestling opens season in CO

u By BreAnne Benson Reporter

The CSC men’s wrestling team kicked off the regular season and at tended the Mines Rookie Open on Sunday in Golden, Colorado.

18 teams across the RMAC and beyond were represented. Chadron brought 20 young wrestlers, six of whom placed sixth or higher in the tournament.

“I thought our young guys did a good job,” CSC Head Men’s Wrestling Coach Brett Hunter. “The majority of them have never wrestled a colle giate match going into that open tournament so I know the nerves were definitely there.”

Cyrus Wells, freshman of Merna, at 149 lbs, and Logan Berger, fresh man of Hartsville, South Carolina, at 165 lbs, were Chadron’s highest placing competitors, both earning runner-up in their respective weight classes.

Wells’s only loss was in the finals to a freshman of Colorado School of Mines. He won his first four matches against two Rocky Mountain Athlet ic Conference wrestlers, a junior college opponent, and one club member.

Berger made the finals after winning two decisive matches against ju nior college competitors, then in decision over an Air Force Academy ca det. He lost in the finals to another cadet, ending his day.

Darwin Hull, sophomore of Schertz, Texas, at 184 lbs, Colton Gehl hausen, freshman of Pinedale, Wyoming, at 157 lbs, Bryan Zutavern, ju nior of Dunning, at 197 lbs, and Nate Meza, freshman of Gilbert, Arizona at 285 lbs, all finished within the top six of their weight classes.

The Eagles will return to the mat in varsity competition when they travel to Laramie, Wyoming, for the UW Cowboy open on Nov. 12.

Eagle women’s wrestling finds success at Mesa Open

u By Whitley Reder Reporter

The CSC women’s wrestling team strug gled starting off their season against the NCAA third-ranked Colorado Mesa Mav ericks in a dual match last Friday, followed by the Colorado Mesa Open last Saturday, in Grand Junction.

CSC struggled during the dual against the Mavericks, and only earned 3 team points.

However, the Eagles found success during the Mesa Open the next day. Heavyanne Robles-Wright, freshman of Las Cruces, New Mexico, at 109 lbs, and Lila Bloomer, freshman of Callaway, at 170 lbs, both earned runner-up.

Isabell Ortiz, freshman of Lakin, Kan sas, finished third overall during the open.

“All I knew was I had to be at my best for my team during dual,” Ortiz said, “The next day for the open, I just wanted to show that I can compete at the higher level.”

Ortiz won her first match by decision, 10-4. Then proceded to fight through to the consolation match where she took third.

Kamila Montenegro, junior of Las Ve gas, Nevada, started Saturday off with a win, 7-4. Her second match ended up in a loss but returned to the mat to pin her re maining opponent.

“I did a lot of learning this weekend”, said Montenegro, “I wrote down all of my mistakes and have a lot to work on, which I am excited to showcase for our next com petition”.

The Eagles will compete again Nov. 18 in Minot, North Dakota, with three duals between Friday and Saturday.

Two CSC wrestlers get tangled together during a scrimmage match at the CSC Black and Cardinal classic last Thursday at the Chicoine Center.

Heavyanne Robles-Wright, freshman of Las Cruces, New Mexico, prepares to wrestle on her opponent during last Friday’s dual against the Colorado Mesa Mavericks in Grand Junction.

Photo by Kayden Singpiel

Photo Courtesy of CMU Sport Information

V’ball ends season on losing streak

u Kennie Gable Reporter

The CSC volleyball team finished the final weekend of the 2022 sea son on a 12-game losing streak after two five-set battles with the South Dakota Mines Hardrockers and the Black Hills State Yellowjackets.

Despite the mildly strong start to the season, the Eagles were unable to get anything going, winning only five sets since Sept. 30.

The Eagles started the weekend against South Dakota Mines on Fri day.

The Eagles started the game quickly, getting the lead right away. Allie Ferguson, junior of Chadron, was the leader in kills along with Aiyana Fujiyama, sophomore of Wahiawa, Hawaii. They both recorded 10 kills on the night. The two were also the leaders in blocking with Fujiyama recording six and Ferguson recording four.

Alexia Hurtado, junior of Aurora, Colorado, had a great night as well. She found herself on the statistical leaderboard several times. Hurtado had three aces, three blocks, two assists, and 14 digs.

However, these strong performances were not enough for the Eagles and South Dakota Mines came on top with set scores of 25-20, 25-15, 17-25, 25-18, and 15-8.

The Eagles quickly turned around to play the Black Hills State Yel lowjackets on Saturday night.

The rivalry game was an intense one, but the Eagles did not pull through for the win. The game finished with scores of 25-22, 18-25, 15-25, 25-18, and 17-15.

Mayson Fago, sophomore of Evans, Colorado, was on fire at the net. She ended the game with 18 kills, along with five blocks.

Rylee Greiman, junior of Windsor, Colorado, found herself on the statistical leaderboard as well. She took charge of the backrow with 14 digs and three assists, along with three aces.

The Eagles fought hard for the match with a lot of close sets, but by the end of the game, the spark burned out and the losing streak ended the season on a sour note. The team falls to 7-20 for the season and 5-13 in the RMAC, ending at 11th in the conference.

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Members of the CSC volleyball team celebrate together after scoring a crucial point during last Friday’s match against the Hardrockers of South Dakota Mines in the Chicoine Center.

Photo by Kamryn Kozisek