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No one injured in Oakland shooting
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Assistant News Editor Pittsburgh police are searching for someone who shot a gun into a park and a house in Oakland Friday night . According to the release, no one was injured, but police officers found four shell casings on the 3700 block of Frazier Street in Oakland. Officers were dispatched to the scene at 8:30 p.m., where a group of five adults said they saw shots fired from a small red vehicle in the direction of Dan Marino Field, at the intersection of Frazier Street and Parkview Avenue, the release said. The release said one bullet went through a bedroom window and hit a lamp, then ended up in the drywall. The resident of the house, a 20-year-old man, was home at the time but was not injured, according to the release. Police are still investigating the shooting, the release said. As of Sunday evening, Department of Public Safety spokesperson Sonya Toler said there is no other information available about the shooting at this time.
Brittany Adams sings a solo during the Some of God’s Children Gospel Choir concert Sunday afternoon in the William Pitt Union Will Miller STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Researchers develop portable cell model Erin Hare
Staff Writer Remote communities often lack the kind of medical labs necessary for accurate diagnoses and treatments, but new lab-on-a-chip technology from Pitt could make these devices portable. Pitt researchers have created a model that explains how enzymes can move around cells — either engineered microcapsules or primitive biological cells
— through the body’s channels . This model, which appeared in the journal ScienceAdvances in March, could facilitate portable medical diagnostic tests — and explain how life may have formed on Earth. This work builds on experimental results from Ayusman Sen, a chemistry professor at Penn State. Sen discovered the enzyme-generated currents in 2014, and the Pitt team figured out how
to harness those currents to transport simple cells. As life evolved on Earth, it was important for individual cells to “sniff ” each other out and band together in colonies that could work together for survival, Sen said. This model provides a means for cells to follow their noses, so to speak. See Cell Study on page 3
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Q & A: soon to be Pitt grad and republican delegate
Alexa Bakalarski Staff Writer
By the end of this month, Cameron Linton will be a Pitt graduate — and a Republican delegate. As he’s running alongside just two other delegate candidates — Mike DeVanney and Mary Ann Meloy — for the 14th congressional district, Linton is ensured one of the three open seats for the district. After he gets elected at the primaries April 26, the economics and political science major will serve as one of 71 Republican delegates in the state. Linton wants to pursue a career in financial planning — not politics. But as the former president of Pitt College Republicans, Linton said he didn’t want to pass up the opportunity to become a delegate. And he said his heavy involvement with the local GOP, such as getting elected as the 43rd state Senate district representative for the Republican State Committee in 2014 to represent Republican voters, showed him it could be an easy win. Barring everything goes right at the polls, Linton will travel to Cleveland for the Republican National Convention July 18 to 21, where he and the state’s 53 other congressional district delegates can vote for any presidential nominee within the party during the first ballot at the convention. The state’s remaining 17 Republican delegates are required to vote for the winner of the Pennsylvania primaries in the first ballot. If a candidate gets 1,237 votes on that ballot, they’ll win the Republican presidential nomination, according to the Republican National Committee’s Convention Facts. This means Linton, DeVanney, Meloy and the other 51 congressional district delegates around the state have the power to determine the Republican presi-
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Cameron Linton will act as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in July. Will Miller STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER to do it, and it’s a lot harder than it sounds. dential nominee. I turned in about 310 signatures, but I had Linton sat down with The Pitt News to to go out probably four to five days a week, discuss what it means to be a delegate, the eight hours a day, knocking on people’s importance of young people voting and the doors, asking them for signatures. Quite an Trump-centric media coverage of this year’s event. presidential race. TPN: What kind of delegate are you? The Pitt News: To start off, tell me about Are you committed to a specific candidate how you became a delegate for the Republialready? can National Committee? CL: I’m a congressional delegate, and Cameron Linton: So you have to get I am officially uncommitted, and I will re250 signatures from registered Republimain uncommitted at the convention. Percans within the district. The district is the sonally, I’m going to be voting for John Ka14th congressional district, which is Mike sich in the primary. However, that does not Doyle’s. You get three weeks — mostly in the mean I will be voting for him as a delegate month of February — you get three weeks
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come Cleveland. TPN: Do you know who you are voting for at the convention? CL: No, not yet. I want to see how the primary results go before I make that decision. TPN: How do you qualify to be a delegate? What kind of experience do you have to have? CL: As far as official qualifications, there are none. You have to be a registered Republican and you have to live in the area that you’re running in. For me, I believe I’m qualified because I was one of the youngest Republicans on the State Committee elected in 2004. I am a local committee man, and I’ve just generally been involved with the party for the past four years since I’ve been in college. TPN: I’ve heard you don’t want to go into politics full-time. How did you get roped into being a delegate this year? CL: I saw an opportunity. People would ask me last semester, people in politics asked me if I was going to do it, and I wasn’t sure. But come January, I decided — this is a congressional district that doesn’t have many Republicans, so I think it was an opportunity for me to get an opportunity to be a delegate. TPN: Who asked you if you were going to run and why? CL: Just random volunteer people from the local party and because they know that I’ve run for party office before and won. TPN: What does a delegate actually do? Can you explain your job and the delegate process leading up to the convention? CL: So delegates actually choose the nominee. It’s very similar to the way that [the] electoral college works. In the primaries, delegates are chosen to represent See Q&A on page 3
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Q&A, pg. 2 the state and go to the convention to actually nominate the candidate. What makes this year special, and my position special, is that it is quite likely at this point that no one is going to receive 50. You have to get 50 percent of the delegates in order to be the nominee. It does not look like Trump. He will get close, but it’s quite possible he won’t get to 50 percent. What makes me in a special position is we are one of the few states that allow our congressional delegates to be unbound, which means I can vote for whoever I want. I could vote for my dad if I wanted to. TPN: How often do you work as a delegate? Is it time consuming? CL: It’s not like an office position where you go and work per se, like a congressman or a state representative would do. Honestly, the only time I am officially doing official business is at the convention, which will last about a week, and then after the convention’s over I am no longer a delegate. TPN: Are there delegate events you have to go to?
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CL: Yeah, I got a letter in the mail from the state GOP. There’s going to be something in early June. It’s in Harrisburg, I think. It’s just a general [meeting], have all the delegates come to Harrisburg and understand more about what the role is and how it all works. TPN: What will you be doing on primary day? CL: I’m obviously going to vote, but I’ll probably be standing at a poll — try to make it to a few different polls in the district to get a chance to meet some of the voters. Obviously, not a whole lot of Republicans. The only real Republican area in the district is Oakmont, so I’ll probably spend most of my day at Oakmont. TPN: What role will Pennsylvania delegates play at the convention in July? CL: Quite possibly a very important role, because there’s going to be 54 of us who are unbounded, who are free to do whatever we want, and I think it is very likely that Trump will get within 100 votes of a majority on the first ballot in Pennsylvania, as the largest delegation of delegates who are free to do what they want at the convention on the first ballot. See Q&A on page 4
Cell Study, pg. 1 Just as a beagle moves toward the scent of a fox, so can these cells hone in on the enzyme by following the route that produces the greatest convective current, Sen said. When dispersed cells collectively follow the same rule, they ultimately end up clustered together. “It’s not trivial, and that’s the real beauty of it,” said principal investigator Anna Balazs, chemical and petroleum engineering professor at Pitt. “It’s a multi-stage process.” To move cells around, researchers need three things: Fluid to flow through the channels, enzymes to create local differences in fluid density and gravity to translate this density differential into convection current like a vortex, said first author Oleg Shklyaev, chemical engineering postdoctoral researcher at Pitt. The microcapsules in the model are leaky, so chemicals on the inside dribble out and react with enzymes that are an-
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chored to a surface like a stone or a plastic well, Balazs said. This enzymatic reaction floods the region with chemical product, increasing the local density of the fluid. In the presence of gravity, denser fluids sink and lighter fluids rise, which produces a convection current, Balazs said. The microcapsules flow through the vortex toward the enzyme, collecting there in a clump. Because the model’s three factors — fluid, enzymes and gravity — are based on realistic conditions on Earth prior to life, the model may explain how early cells came together to form multicellular colonies, which are the basis for complex life forms, Shklyaev said. Besides uncovering the origins of life, Balazs said the Pitt team hopes to leverage their new model for the development of microfluidic lab-on-a-chip technology, in which laboratory functions involving low volumes of fluids are integrated on a small chip device. According to Balazs, microfluidic See Cell Study on page 4
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Q&A, pg. 3 TPN: What kind of perspective has the experience given you? What have you learned so far? CL: It takes a lot of work. Like I said, you have to get 250 signatures, and that really was a lot of effort to do — mostly by myself. As far as anything that I’ve learned, I’ve learned that it’s going to be a very expensive trip to Cleveland. You have to pay for your own hotel and food and all of that jazz, so it’s going to be
quite expensive. TPN: What do you hope happens at the convention? CL: I hope it can be civil. No matter what the outcome is, I hope it is civil on every side. I hope that our party is not completely destroyed by the end of it. TPN: Should young people vote and get involved in politics? CL: Yeah, I think it is important for really anyone, even if you’re not young, to be involved in politics. Obviously, it has a great influence on your life, but specifically for
younger people, we are the future of our country. We are the future of everything, and we should try to play as much of a role in influencing that as we can. TPN: How can Pitt students get more involved in politics? CL: Regardless of what party you support, volunteer for campaign events, whether it’s at the national level or at the local level, whatever it is. Getting involved, that’s how I did [it]. I was an intern my [first year at college] for the Romney campaign, so just getting involved, trying to get internships, that’s really where I
learned how best to apply myself. TPN: Do you think college students have more of an interest in politics with this presidential election or less? CL: I think everyone has more of an interest in this race, it doesn’t matter who you are, I think everyone is interested in this. Obviously, it’s because of Trump, but I think the media has, I don’t know if it’s necessarily a good or bad thing, but they have certainly attempted to divide the entire country, in my opinion, really for ratings, which it’s worked, because they all do fantastic with ratings when Trump is on TV.
Cell Study, pg. 3 devices only currently exist within a laboratory setting, relying on support machines that are too large to carry. The goal is to make these microfluidic devices completely self-sustaining and portable so clinicians can take them to the patient’s home or hospital room, Balazs said. The medical applications for microfluidics are virtually limitless, from identifying specific pathogens, to testing antibiotic resistance, to diagnosing genetic diseases. With a truly portable and self-powered device, physicians could bring these diagnostic tools to even the most remote locations on Earth. “Channels in these devices are about the size of a human hair, and because of the size, it’s very hard to control the transport of reagents and cells,” Balazs said. “You don’t have little winches that you can go in and tweak things.” Balazs said the model is so useful because it offers a way to tow reagents — substances used in chemical analysis — or biological samples within microcapsules to a specific spot in the channel. Now it’s possible to position cells from someone’s body or drugs or chemical reagents exactly where you want them in the device, making it possible to set up a multi-stage reaction like a series of dominoes. “This system is great because it’s very specific and self-powered so it can sit around forever,” Sen said.
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Firing Wendy Bell overlooks larger issue WTAE anchorperson Wendy Bell’s problematic Facebook post last month warranted some kind of action, but her termination from the Hearst-owned media outlet won’t solve anything. On March 21, Bell posted her unsupported assumptions about the Wilkinsburg shooting on March 18, that resulted in the deaths of five adults and an unborn baby. Her post was riddled with racial profiling — stating the shooters are probably “young black men” with “multiple siblings from multiple fathers.” WTAE responded with an apology — Charles W. Wolfertz III, WTAE’s president and general manager, said the station is committed to “making sure something like this doesn’t happen again,” and he fired Bell March 23. The station also agreed to partner with the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation to review WTAE’s coverage of African-American communities and other diversity-related issues in meetings twice a year. The same day Bell was fired, she apologized on Facebook and said her words “could be viewed as racist” and she regrets offending anyone. But saying her language “could be viewed” and she “regrets offending” shows she has learned nothing from the situation. This is unsurprising, as WTAE passed on a valuable teaching opportunity for both Bell and all of Pittsburgh. Cutting ties with Bell rather than using the incident to publicly address systemic racism doesn’t do much more than make Bell a problematic martyr for those who call efforts toward inclusivity to be malformations of “PC culture.” It also puts the blame on Bell rather than the larger systems at play here that led her to believe her comments were OK. Over the weekend, Bell made a new Facebook page, where she plans to do “some really
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fun stuff,” according to an introductory post. The page, which now has more than 48,000 likes, has become a place where people can show their support for Bell. But Bell’s job loss shouldn’t be taking center stage. It’s not her struggle that fueled this ordeal — it began with her off-the-cuff comments about a horrific tragedy. Instead of transforming Bell’s inappropriate comments into a lesson on internalized racism, Bell’s firing has become the story, and her “struggle” has become the tragedy. But racism was never a Wendy Bell-specific issue. Rather than fire her, WTAE could have had Bell explore and report on what she has personally learned about white privilege in Pittsburgh through interviews with community members and race scholars. Investigating what led Bell to make these assumptions, why she felt it was her place to speak on the issue and why so many hold opinions similar to hers would be a more effective approach for WTAE than washing its hands clean of Bell. This wasn’t Bell’s first disrespectful remark. According to the New York Times, in May 2010, she made a racially charged comment about sunscreen in reference to a black co-anchor’s skin color. The response was similar — an offended audience, and a prompt apology to end the discussion. But she didn’t learn then, and, without regimented teaching about race issues, she probably won’t learn now — especially not with a 50,000-person strong fan base telling her she didn’t deserve to be fired. Pushing Wendy Bell off the screen won’t spotlight an issue that Pittsburgh needs to recognize, but instead push our city’s race issue further into the shadows. In her original post about the Wilkinsburg shooting, she describes an encounter she had with a 23-year-old black employee of the res-
taurant who was clearing tables when she went out to dinner. She commends him for being hard working — and is especially impressed because he’s black and hard-working, which she alludes to as practically being antithetical. For those reasons, even her compliment is offensive and patronizing — and overall, racist. Brandon Walker, the man who had been bussing tables and carrying glasses at the restaurant Bell was visiting, responded appreciatively of Bell’s comments and said he “went home and put up a post and said how great it felt to be noticed on Facebook,” according to his interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on April 2. But despite Walker’s appreciative words, Bell took it upon herself to act as an examiner and critiqued him as if it was her role or place to do so, a trend that seems to have repeated itself and will continue to repeat itself if we don’t have a real conversation about where it came from. Everyday viewers need to see why what Bell said was wrong, and closed door meetings will not achieve this goal. As an award-winning anchor who has influence over her viewers, Bell also has a responsibility most Facebook users don’t. While her actions weren’t deliberately hateful, her viewers — looking to her for factual updates on the crime — could’ve taken her actions and words as the truth. Journalists spend their lives getting people to trust and listen to them — and that doesn’t turn off on social media. What Bell did is perpetuate stereotypes and myths from a position of esteem. Bell was representative of the larger problem of systemic racism, eclipsed here by her high-profile status. Until we address the larger problem, we can count on more Wendy Bells and more apologies — but little change.
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Pitt must follow in fight for 15’s footsteps Kirsten Wong Columnist
Over the last week, the Fight for 15 movement has made significant strides in what politicians, economists and everyday people thought was impossible four years ago when the campaign began. Let’s hope that Pitt students soon get it feel its effects. On March 28, the state of California announced it would raise the minimum wage to 15 dollars over the next five years, becoming the first state in the nation to do so. Last week, New York University and Columbia University granted student workers a $15 minimum wage in an effort to reduce the burden on families and students. “We also appreciate that the special experience of attending college or graduate school in New York carries with it higher living costs than those borne by students at institutions not located in major cities,” Columbia Provost John Coatsworth said in an email to students March 28. Columbia University and New York University are using different consulting processes to make the wage increase feasible for each school, showing that the wage raise is feasible, it just takes a some planning — like most good ideas. More locally, UPMC finally made the decision to raise the minimum wage to $15 for most of its employees. See Wong on page 7
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Wong, pg. 6 Despite the continuous pushback from Congress to pass a new federal minimum wage, states, companies and universities are taking matters into their own hands by standing together to give workers a living wage. As one of the largest employers in the city and a UPMC-affiliate, it is time for Pitt to follow in these colleges and UPMC’s footsteps and give student workers a $15 minimum wage. Pitt is considered a nonprofit — despite making billions in profit through investments, endowments and assets — so it should look at what would best serve the public, not what would best serve its financial interests. Increasing work study wage would also ensure more low-income students can afford college. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, the percentage of students from low-income families enrolling in higher education immediately after graduating from high school has declined since 2008, from 56 percent of graduates to just 46 percent. Low-income students saw the largest decrease in enrollment out of all income groups, a sign that affordability is becoming a major deciding factor in college enrollment. As a student worker myself, I work two jobs as a columnist for The Pitt News and a Jumpstart Corps member — a national organization that mentors low-income preschool children and teaches them literacy and language skills to help prepare them for kindergarten — in order to help
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pay for my living expenses. The University does not allow students to work more than one job through the Federal Work Study program, which is why I was forced to seek out other work when I reached my Work Study limit through my job at Jumpstart. A student also cannot work more than 21 hours per week, even if their federal award, which the federal government provides, requires more. If Pitt makes the decision to raise wages of their students, this would give students a way to receive their full award, as some jobs do not let students work the full 20 hours per week. If I had more financial security, I would be more than eager to pay off the student debt I owe, but right now that is not financially feasible with the low wages I receive. Fight for 15 was so sensationalized because there are so many students who face the same struggle to balance finances in college. We rely on part-time jobs — some of us on one, some of us on two or more. We rely on the school to set the wage that we will depend on to reduce the overwhelming burden of financial insecurity. But a part-time job should add to the college experience, not overshadow it with the hours needed to pay for it.
TNS Student debt has enormous consequences that are detrimental for the future of our economy. When students cannot pay off the crippling debt they owe during or after college, it will delay them from investing in buying a house, a car, vacations or any major milestone that fuels the economy. The social implications of these setbacks are equally as harmful, such as delaying marriage and having kids later. Many students at Pitt have expressed their grievances with the school’s low wages by participating in marches and protests such as the Fight for 15 or, in Lauren Klingman’s case, the March to Take Back Our University. Klingman, a junior studying social work, is part of the student-led campaign that began with the March to Take Back
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Our University in February. As a student worker, she works at the Hillman Library and at Ali Baba to help pay for her expenses. The jobs she works do little to put a dent in the $80,000 of debt she will owe. “Students cannot get by on minimum wage with all of the expenses we have — including rent, student loans, utilities, food and books,” Klingman told The Pitt News. A movement like the Fight for 15 cannot go unanswered when thousands of students from low-income households depend on Work Study to get through college. We attend college to study and attain a degree, and that’s grueling enough on its own. Working multiple jobs in college is a reality for many, but doing it for $7.25 an hour shouldn’t be.
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Sports Panthers fall to Clemson in weekend series Steve Rotstein Staff Writer
Pitt shortstop Charles LeBlanc hails from Quebec, but the sophomore seemed right at home this weekend in Clemson, South Carolina. LeBlanc tallied nine hits and nine RBIs in 12 at-bats against the No. 14 Clemson Tigers (21-7, 7-5 ACC) in a blowout victory on Saturday night. But the Panthers (13-11, 5-7 ACC) ultimately came just short of what would have been a shocking series win over their ACC rival. To start off a three-game series against Clemson, the Tigers ended Pitt’s winning streak with a dominant 14-6 win in game one on Friday night. The Panthers rebounded Saturday, winning 15-5 in game two. Pitt led for most of game three, but the Tigers came out on top, 4-3. The Panthers continued their trend of starting slow in conference play, dropping the opening game of the series for the fourth time in all four conference series. Pitt got on the board first on Friday as junior Jacob Wright led with a double,
Charles LeBlanc led the offense against Clemson this weekend. Wenhao Wu STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
then scored on an RBI single by LeBlanc. That was Pitt’s only lead in game one, as Clemson tied the score in the bottom of the second inning and broke it open with three runs in the third. The Tigers added two more runs in the fourth to take a 6-1 lead. As has been
the case all season — even in eventual blowout losses to No. 6 North Carolina and No. 11 Florida State — the Panthers battled back. Senior Aaron Schnurbusch started the fifth for Pitt with a bunt single. Senior Matt Johnson bunted Schnurbusch
and junior Caleb Parry over before an RBI ground out from Wright and an RBI single from LeBlanc brought them home. Junior Nick Yarnall mashed a tworun homer, his sixth of the season, to cut the deficit to 6-5. The Panthers scored one more when Parry led off the seventh with a solo home run, but they couldn’t stop Clemson. The Tigers had already scored once in the fifth and five more times in the sixth to take a 12-5 lead. Clemson scored again in both the seventh and the eighth to finish off a 14-6 win in game one. “I thought we battled at the plate, being down 6-1 early and being able to battle back to make it 6-5 made it a good ballgame,” Pitt head coach Joe Jordano said in a press release. Pitt sent team ace T.J. Zeuch to the mound in game two, and senior Alex Kowalczyk gave him a boost, spotting him a two-run lead in the top of the first with his team-leading eighth home run of the season. After mowing down Florida State See Baseball on page 10
conner throws first pitch at pirates’ opening game Dan Sostek Sports Editor
With his chemotherapy treatment winding down and a promising outlook in his fight against cancer, James Conner had some time for fun and games Sunday. Pitt’s star running back, who announced his diagnosis of Hodgkin lymphoma in December, threw the honor-
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ary first pitch at the Pittsburgh Pirates’ season opener Sunday at PNC Park. “I was all for it,” Conner said of the opportunity. “It was just like, ‘Wow, they really want you.’ I know this type of thing doesn’t happen to just anybody, so it’s a real honor.” Pirates broadcaster Greg Brown, who emceed the team’s Opening Day ceremonies, introduced Conner. “Today, we aren’t honoring James
Conner for his play on the field,” Brown said. “We are honoring him for being a role model for so many.” Brown announced that the Pirates Charities organization issued a $5,000 donation to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in Conner’s name and referenced a statement the running back made when he announced his diagnosis. “To quote James, ‘Fear is a choice, I choose not to fear cancer. I choose to
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fight, and I will win,’” Brown said. Conner’s pitch bounced in the dirt in front of Pirates’ catcher Chris Stewart, but he still earned a rousing ovation from the packed PNC Park crowd. Later, Conner jokingly tweeted, “S/o to all the Pitchers out there for what y’all do! It’s a lot farther than it looks lol.” Conner has completed nine of his 12 chemotherapy treatments — his next See Conner on page 9
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Pitt softball leaves Raleigh victorious Jeremy Tepper
Senior Staff Writer After overcoming struggles on the mound in game one, the Pitt softball team walked away with wins in two of three games this weekend in a series against North Carolina State in Raleigh, North Carolina. After splitting with the Wolfpack in the teams’ doubleheader on Saturday, the Panthers closed out the series with a 3-0 win, improving their record to 23-12 and 5-7 in ACC play. “We just kept battling,” head coach Holly Aprile said in a press release. “The first loss was disappointing but we worked to not let it get us down mentally.” Over the weekend, Pitt outscored NC State 10-7, dropping the first game 6-5, then winning the next two 2-1 and 3-0. Kayla Harris started the first game, but left after two innings, allowing three
runs on four hits and three walks. Jenna Modic came in as a relief, but offered little help, surrendering three runs in her four innings. Despite the Panthers’ struggles on the mound, strong hitting kept them in the contest. Redshirt senior Maggie Sevilla brought in one run on a bases-loaded single in the first inning. The Wolfpack quickly answered, scoring two runs in the second inning. That back and forth would continue for the rest of the game, as the two teams changed leads multiple times. NC State eventually won on a walk-off single in the seventh by Meredith Burroughs after Modic walked two batters in a row. Despite her performance on the mound, Modic was powerful at the plate, hitting two solo home runs. Shelby Pickett was also 3-3 in the losing affair, as the Panthers outhit the Wolfpack 10 to eight.
The second game of the doubleheader Saturday contrasted with the first, as the Panthers won 2-1 in a pitching battle. This time Modic got the start over Harris, allowing one run on four hits in three innings. She walked a batter with the bases loaded, after allowing two singles and a walk, and left the game with her team down 1-0. Harris replaced her with an impeccable performance, pitching four shutout innings, allowing just two hits and striking out seven . Sophomore Erin Hershman provided the game-winning hit when she slugged a two-run homer off of Brittany Nimmo. Nimmo pitched all seven innings, allowing six hits. The Panthers carried their pitching momentum into Sunday with a shutout victory. Modic held the Wolfpack hitless in See Softball on page 10
Conner, pg. 8 one is scheduled for April 11, and his final session is set for May 9. After that final treatment, Conner said he will undergo a PET scan, which he hopes will show that he is cancer-free. . “Hopefully all this will just be a distant memory,” Conner said. Conner said he is breathing and sleeping better now than when he first started treatment. He said his desire to return to the football field helps quiet the lingering side effects from chemotherapy. “We’ve got a season coming up, so I don’t have time really [to feel the side effects],” Conner said. “I know my teammates need me, and sitting out last year was one of the worst things ever, just watching.” As for Pitt’s upcoming 2016 season, Conner said he won’t spend another game watching. . “The first game is Sept. 3,” Conner said. “And all I know is I’m going to be ready by then.”
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Baseball, pg. 8 and Boston College in his first two outings of the season, Zeuch was off to a shakier start in this one. He allowed three runs in the bottom of the first to give the lead back to the Tigers. But LeBlanc and Kowalczyk brought in three runs in the second inning. Clemson’s first-year phenom Seth Beer, the NCAA’s leader in slugging percentage, cut into Pitt’s lead in the bottom of the third with his 12th solo homer of the season. Tied at 5-5 and battling to regain the game, Pitt kept knocking off runs of its own, adding three more in the top of the fifth on a sacrifice fly by Wright and a two-run single by LeBlanc. In the sixth, the Panthers led 12-5. Zeuch put up a pair of zeroes in the fifth and sixth before first year Yaya Chentouf came in to slam the door on Clemson with three more scoreless innings. LeBlanc added his fourth RBI single of the game in the eighth, tallying four
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hits and six RBIs in game two. The Panthers added two more in the top of the ninth to cap off the 15-5 win. “Offensively, I thought we were as good as we were all year. Charles had a great day and was outstanding with his two-out at-bats,” Jordano said. Senior Aaron Sandefur took the mound for Pitt in the rubber match on Sunday, eager to build on a complete game shutout in his last start against Boston College. LeBlanc kept his hot streak aflame Sunday with a single in the top of the first, then scored on an RBI double by Yarnall to give the Panthers an early 1-0 lead. The Tigers ended Sandefur’s scoreless streak at 11 innings in the bottom of the third, but he stranded a pair of runners on the corners to keep the game tied, 1-1. Junior Manny Pazos started the top of the fifth with a single for Pitt, then came around to score when right fielder K.J. Bryant dropped a routine fly ball by Wright to give the Panthers a 2-1 lead. LeBlanc knocked another RBI single into
left to extend the lead to 3-1. Sophomore Issac Mattson came in for relief in the sixth and entered in a basesloaded, nobody-out situation. He nearly pulled off a Houdini, recording the first two outs on only four pitches before giving up a bloop single to tie the game 3-3. Reed Rohlman drew a leadoff walk for the Tigers in the bottom of the eighth and came home on an RBI single to give Clemson a 4-3 lead. Pitt couldn’t come back in the ninth, losing the competitive series two games to one. “It was a good baseball game,” Jordano said in the release. “We had a couple of opportunities to extend the lead early and we did not execute the at-bats. On the mount, we walked a few guys and that hurt us and ultimately a leadoff walk in the bottom of the eighth was the gamewinner for Clemson.” The Panthers are now 13-11 on the season and 5-7 in ACC play. They will take the field next in University Park, Pennsylvania, in an interstate matchup with Penn State at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 5.
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Softball, pg. 9 her three innings, striking out one and walking four. Harris relieved her with four scoreless innings, striking out three and allowing three hits. The Panthers scored all three of their runs in the fourth inning — Kathryn Duran brought in Olivia Gray on a bunt and Kaitlin Manuel generated the second run on a sacrifice fly. Duran scored the final on a passed ball. Pitt outhit NC State 4-3 and drew nine walks. “We stayed confident, made some great plays and came up with a couple of big hits that got our offense going in the last two games,” Aprile said in the release. “We also had two really good pitching performances after a bit of a struggle in the first game.” The Panthers will return to play on Wednesday at 3 p.m. for the first game of a two-game series against Bucknell at home.
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