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Students were treated to an impromptu trip outdoors following an evacuation of the Liberal Arts Building at about 1:15 p.m. yesterday, April 2. Dean of Liberal Arts Pamela Washington said fire alarms were activated when unknown persons discharged a fire extinguisher in the Pegasus Theater. “[Fire officials] need to cordon off and aerate the building because of the chemical used,” Washington said. “The chemical is dangerous to breathe.” Students were evacuated to the intramural field east of Buddy’s before being let back in the building about twenty minutes later. Pegasus Theater and the lobby outside of it remained closed when the students re-entered. “We were in Criminal Justice class when these alarms went off, and we had to exit the building,” Pamela Beaty, junior psychology major, said. “There was no warning, no nothing, just the sirens. Once we were outside, they kept pushing us out to this field.” Multiple chemicals are used in modern dry powder fire extinguishers, such as the kind used inside Pegasus Theater, according to Adrienne Nobles, the university relations director of communications and marketing. Information on the chemical used in the extinguisher was not available, however many chemicals in dry extinguishers can cause skin irritation. “The fire alarm went off and we just grabbed our stuff and walked out,” Derek Mussey, freshman undeclared major, said. “I was thinking, why are we doing a fire drill in college?” Nobles also said no injuries were reported.
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Native American participants dance during the Grand Entry during UCO’s 40th Annual Spring Powwow at Hamilton Field House, Sunday, April 1, 2012. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista
By Ben Luschen / Staff Writer The bleachers inside Hamilton Field House gently shook from the noise. It was not a sporting event that rocked the rocked the court, but the heavy beating of an American Indian drum. UCO held its 40th annual Spring Powwow inside the athletic facility Sunday, April 1. The celebration began at 2 p.m. with gourd dancing, a type of dance believed to have originated among the Kiowa tribes. It is set to a steady drumbeat and singing and is often used to open powwows. At 5:00, the assembly took a break for a free supper consisting of a few traditional Native American foods including fried chicken, fry bread, hominy and corn soup. The event began again two hours later when the event’s dancers made a grand entry. A series of dance competitions were held afterward. The dance competitions included categories in Men’s Straight, Grass and Fancy as well as Women’s Cloth, Buckskin, Jingle and Fancy Shawl dances. Cash prizes were awarded to those who placed in the top three of each event, with first place taking home $150.
“This is basically the biggest event of the year for us,” Sache Primeaux-Shaw, a graduate student at UCO and a Native American Student Association member, said. Primeaux-Shaw and several other NASA members spent almost the whole day at the event setting up, running a concession stand and serving the dinner. Sammy Tone-Kei White acted as the events master of ceremonies. White travels to different powwows across the state and the nation, but his trip to Central’s Spring Powwow is more of a homecoming. White attended the school back when it was known as Central State, though he notes the campus has undergone quite a transformation since those days. “It’s changed,” White said. “Everything is new.” Its surroundings may have changed, but White says the powwow held by UCO has changed very little in its 40 years. “The powwow part is the same – same songs, same dances,” he said. “But it’s just a good time for an Indian celebration.” Although many of the powwows attendees were family members of the dancers or other parts of the Native American community, several more people
came just to experience the powwow atmosphere firsthand. Lindsay Echols, the coordinator of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, says this is one of the main reasons to continue to hold the annual event. “I think it’s very important,” Echols said. “People are able to show part of themselves to a larger culture, so they’re able to pass down what they’ve been raised around since they were kids.” Echols also says the fact UCO has been holding a spring powwow for as many years as it has shows the school’s deep investment in both the Native American culture and cultural diversity as a whole. For White, the importance of the powwow is its ability to connect generations and make an impact of the community’s youth. “It’s very, very important, especially with the young people,” White said. “It reminds them of who they are, the Indian ones. They get to learn and then maybe they can teach their children about the songs.” Though the event may be key to preserving a culture, White says he is not worried that Native American youth will ever cast away their cultural heritage. “As long as we’ve got the drum, they’ll always be here,” he said.
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UCO police received a call of a hit and run on campus at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29. Bystanders had witnessed two 18-year-old students get struck by a van as they crossed Ayers Drive, north of Max Chambers Library. “We’ve talked to dozens and dozens of people who may or may not have been close enough to see what happened,” Jeff Harp, UCO Chief of Police, said. “We’re getting conflicting information on the color of the vehicle. We do know it is a minivan, we do not know how new it is. Some reports have said it is white, some have said it is darker in color, so we are pursuing both of those investigative angles.” Harp declined to provide further information on the victims’ names or current medical condition, citing department policy. “I’ve been here about 12 years, and this is the first time anything like this has happened at UCO,” Harp said. “Anything that can happen anywhere else can happen here, and I think the lesson to be learned here is always be careful and aware of your surroundings. Know what you are doing and pay attention to what’s going on around you.” Students with information are urged to contact UCO police at 947-2345. Students who wish to remain anonymous can call the Broncho Five-O tip
A student crosses E Ayers St. near the Max Chambers Library where a hit and run incident occured on Thursday March 29, 2012. Photo by Cody Bromley, The Vista
line at 947-3483, or by e-mail at five-o@uco.edu “I don’t know if this was preventable, this was two people crossing the street in a heavy-foot traffic area,” Harp said. “We don’t have a motive or what
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OWS STILL WORKING DESPITE MEDIA’S ABSENCE Many critics of the protest movement known as “Occupy Wall Street” have said, especially in recent months, that it is dead, or dying. On the surface, this critique would seem to hold water. The encampments, the flagship symbols of the movements, have been all but eradicated by increasingly militarized police forces. Media reports about the movement have slowed to a crawl. Activity around the movement hubs themselves was hindered by the winter weather. But there are suggestions that the movement is in the process of making a major comeback – including increased police presence and repression. Last month, occupiers attempted to reconvene in Liberty Park in New York City but were met with heavy police violence. In one instance, an OWS medic was thrown headfirst into a glass door, cracking the glass. And just yesterday, San Francisco police officers raided a building Occupy San Francisco participants were using as a community space. Recent actions by Occupy Wall Street and its affiliates in Chicago and parts of California point to even larger national actions on May Day 2012 and the week of the NATO summit in Chicago. Originally, both the G8 summit and NATO were supposed to be meeting in Chicago, but the G8 was moved to Camp David in Maryland following Occupy Chicago’s promise to bring thousands of people to the city to protest. And several reports have come out of OWS NYC suggesting that the flagship occupation is planning a general strike for May 1. There has not been a successful general strike in the US since 1946, although several have been attempted. This included a mass action in Oakland last November. With all of this activity in mind, is it really a good idea to claim the movement – which has only existed for seven months – has died, or is struggling to keep afloat? It is disingenuous at best for the various news media and commentary outlets to say so without considering the evidence. Occupy lives on, despite reports to the contrary – and perhaps in spite of them – and they are here to stay. By Evan Oldham / Cartoonist
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UCO THEATRE STUDENT TO STAR IN ‘SPRING AWAKENING’ By Celia Brumfield / Staff Writer UCO music theatre student Leah Coleman is already an actor at the professional level, starring in Oklahoma City’s Lyric Theatre’s production of SPRING AWAKENING. Adapted from the German play written in the 1890s, Lyric’s version of the play is a “rock musical,” set in the original time period but with singing and dancing to the music of Duncan Sheik. “It’s a coming-of-age story that handles just about every issue there is. That is why it’s hard to describe,” Coleman said. Director Michael Baron describes it as an edgy show, saying, “It shows all the danger of teenage life… It’s a very moral play. It’s all about the relationships and the tension between adolescents and adults. A teenage girl gets pregnant and she doesn’t know why it happened because she doesn’t know what sex is.” Coleman portrays this young girl, the starring role of Wendla. “Wendla, she is a young girl who is going through life changes very quickly and she doesn’t really understand them. My character opens the show because she has boobs and her clothes don’t fit anymore,” Coleman said. “The adults don’t help her intellectual growth at all. She’s very intelligent, but she is extremely frustrated because she can’t understand how to handle it. She lives in a bubble.” Her character, Coleman said, is reflective of the period she lives in. “In 1890s provincial Germany they are very sheltered and because we [the characters] are misinformed. I end up falling in love with a boy who does know what sex is and I end up getting pregnant,” Coleman said. Coleman and the cast only had 10 days of rehearsal before the show. “Directing is trying to give the most honest performance. If you’re doing the play right, there’s not that many ways to do it,” Baron said about directing the show. “Casting is always the hardest part. Finding the right person for the right role is always challenging.” Coleman was chosen for the starring role
but said she would have taken any of them. “She’s one of the most insanely talented people,” Baron said of Coleman. “She has a beautiful singing voice and she’s a strong actor.” Coleman echoed this praise, describing Baron as “incredible.” “He has an incredible way of communication with actors to get his point across and to get his vision to come to life,” Coleman said. Coleman knew she wanted to be an actor in the fifth grade and everyone had always been very supportive of her and never discouraged her. She also never gets nervous before a performance. “Very rarely do I ever get nervous… I don’t know why,” Coleman said. “This is weird, but I will get nervous for rehearsal more than the actual performance, but by the time the show comes around I’m ready to tell the story. They’re more excited nerves.” SPRING AWAKENING has been immensely successful on Broadway, winning eight Tony Awards and Lyric Theatre is bringing it here for an Oklahoma premiere of the show. “Lyric Theatre is the bee’s knees in Oklahoma,” Coleman said. Lyric offers a school for singing, dancing and acting. Baron is in charge of all artistic programming. SPRING AWAKENING will be running until April 14. There are special prices for student tickets and stage seats available on LyricTheatreOKC.com.
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By Josh Hutton Ida After pressing the unlock button on the main door, I shuffled into the nursing home. The smell emerged first. A mix of reheated eggs, ammonia, and soiled clothes swirled and seethed into my pores. Fluorescent light reflected off the freshly painted white halls. The halls distracted from the scuffed wooden floors. A Certified Nurse’s Assistant in Tweety Bird scrubs checked her cell phone with one hand. With the other, the CNA tugged at an immobile, doll-carrying young woman, prematurely placed in the facility due to a mental handicap. I stepped past the two and into the public family room. I’m the son of a minister. When I visit my mom and dad on Sundays, the visit begins with three or four church members and myself going to the Parkland Manor nursing home of Prague, Oklahoma. The family room was small and stuffed with mismatched furniture. The wallpaper consisted of faded blue and red stripes. On the walls hung watercolors of a Santa Monica pier in the ‘20s serving as an escape. Seated in a hand-me-down wheelchair with her hands folded, was Ida. Ida attended the Prague church since before I was born until the day before I visited. She shook from her first night spent at the nursing home. Her daughter sat on an end table beside her and held her hand. One of the men with me asked if she’d be there for a while. “It looks
like it will be…” Ida didn’t finish. Her voice broke, and tears crawled down her cheek. Ida said she’d been taking her meals alone. We started to sing hymns. During “Heavenly Sunlight” Ida’s daughter began to cry. She left the room. Ida, with her head still down, explained, “She’s alright. She’s just scared for Mama.” In that moment Ida grasped for her humanity. Despite losing her home, despite being away from her collection of books, despite being unable to sip coffee from her porcelain cups, she still took on her role as a mother. In this country of over 16,000 nursing homes, senior citizens are discarded. Put on a shelf, out of sight, so the rest of us can continue onwards with our lives. Instead of valuing older citizens like Eastern cultures, the United States treats them like leeches on the Social Security system. The biggest issue with nursing homes is the impact it has on families. Those who live in the nursing home are stripped of many of the niceties they valued during independence. It’s like a slow, torturous parade commemorating life’s exit. The men and women, who helped establish this nation, as we know it, deserve dignity. I urge all who have elderly loved ones to consider all possible options before placing them in a nursing home.
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UCOSA SENATE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE SEEKS THE OFFICE OF UCOSA PRESIDENT This is the second in a series of articles detailing the 2012 UCOSA presidential election. By Trevor Hultner / Staff Writer Economics junior and UCOSA presidential candidate Lacie Larschan has a 10-point platform for the 2012-2013 school year and a campaign sponsorship from prominent Oklahoma City drug lawyer Chad Moody, but does she have what it takes to win the top spot in UCO’s student government? Larschan, the departing Deputy Senate President Pro Tempore, believes she does. “The Senate has had its most successful year, ever,” Larschan said. “Last year we had six pieces of legislation written by Senators; this semester we’re working on our eighth,
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and it’s extremely productive.” Larschan is confident she has the chops for the job, and had choice words for her competitors. “Not everyone in UCOSA has lived up to their campaign promises,” she said. “I have been working in UCOSA, I have a lot of experience, and I’m the most qualified candidate.” Larschan’s campaign is centered around issues that run the gamut of campus politics, from endorsing an LGBT center to refocusing UCO po-
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lice priorities away from marijuana busts. In addition to the real-life campaign, where yard signs, posters and pins have been deployed around campus, Larschan has launched a fledgling social media campaign on Facebook and Twitter. Her platform includes lowering campus food prices, solving the parking question, semester book swaps, distributing Scantrons to professors, maximizing UCO’s study spaces, the creation of a social network for international students on campus, the aforementioned LGBT center and police reprioritization, the introduction of an improved version of UCONNECT, and “Bronze and Blue Fridays,” with the goal of increasing student participation in every aspect of the university. Larschan believes that Bronze and Blue Fridays would begin to bridge a gap between students and administrative staff, a gap she became aware of when she tried to enact a sustainability measure early on as Senate President Pro Tempore. “Other campuses have banned bottled water on campus for sustainability reasons,” she said. “And I thought this would be really cool. So whenever I was working on this, I was told that it didn’t matter if I got unanimous consent from the House, from the Senate, from over half of the student body and faculty Senate – it wouldn’t matter. They would not do that.” She said that Bronze and Blue Fridays would be the backing for a greater discussion on student-administrator relations. “I want to be able to put students on those [administrative] boards,” she said. “I want to put students in those meetings, and I want permanent student representative [posi-
Lacie Larschan, economics junior and president-pro-tempore of the UCOSA Senate, addresses the UCOSA Senate on Monday April 2, 2012. Larschan is one of five candidates running for UCOSA President. Photo by Cody Bromley, The Vista
tions] in administrative decisions.” Whether the administration would go for that, she doesn’t know, but “it’s definitely something we need to be trying.” With regards to how police prioritize marijuana offenses on campus, Larschan expects this position to be the most controversial of her campaign points, and will have Moody, the drug lawyer, defend her if necessary. “He (Moody) loves the idea of a model student – not to toot my own horn or anything – but like, I have a
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decent GPA, and I’ve been involved in UCOSA,” she said. “I’m not coming off of my couch saying, ‘Oh yeah, man, I think I wanna run for President.’” Larschan has also included a pot leaf on her campaign poster. “I’m expecting someone to raise hell about this,” she said. “And in that case Moody is willing to defend me as saying, you know, ‘look at this model student. Pot has not ruined her life. This is just a leaf and it’s political free speech.’ It’s very protected.”
Larschan believes that there should be more safety measures in place for people who aren’t breaking the law, like call boxes of which there is only one to be installed in the future. “Part of being safe is feeling safe,” she said. “I think it’s ridiculous that we don’t have call boxes on campus.” There will be a debate for all the candidates, including Larschan, on April 10 at 7 p.m. at a location to be announced.
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STUDENTS MARCH FOR JUSTICE Students march during a demonstration for Trayvon Martin Thursday, March 29, 2012. Trayvon Martin is a black teen who was murdered in Florida. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista
By Danniel Parker / Contributing Writer At a rally last Thursday outside the Hamilton Field House, concerned black students issued a clarion call for those in attendance to don hoodies and march across campus under the 80-degree afternoon sun. Nearly one hundred students walked in line through UCO, following many like it springing up in cities across the nation in response to the shooting death of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida by the gun of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. Zimmerman claims he was attacked and shot Trayvon in self-defense, and was released from police custody without being charged. “The students wanted to use their voice to speak up about this, and I was so proud of them I had to be a part of it,” Lindsay Echols, coordinator of the office of diversity and inclusion, said. The Black Students Association in conjunction with the NAACP organized the event and the effects the crowd sought were to get Zimmerman charged with murder, or a hate crime, which they believe would raise awareness for people who were killed due to racial profiling. Posters advertising the event were placed up around campus the prior week. A bottle of Arizona Iced-Tea and a bag of Skittles were taped to the signs because those items were what Trayvon was carrying when killed walking from a convenience store to a condo where
his father’s girlfriend lived. “We could get rid of racial profiling and time.” “The main thing we wanted was to raise things could change if people had sensitivity The FBI and the Justice Department are curawareness for Martin’s death, and we achieved training at an early age,” Primeaux said. “Chil- rently investigating the shooting of Trayvon our goal,” said Darrell Hamilton, a UCO stu- dren should be given sensitivity training in Martin. dent who is active in many organizations, in- kindergarten because racism is learned over cluding the Black Student Association. “Even though the state of Florida is hundreds of miles away, any one of us could easily have been Trayvon Martin due to Oklahoma’s Make My Day law,” Hamilton said. Both Oklahoma and Florida allow the castle doctrine, which protects individuals from criminal charges and lawsuits if they use force when protecting oneself from imminent death, bodily harm, or to protect their business, home or vehicle from the commission of a forcible felony. They are named Stand Your Ground laws because under certain circumstances a person has no legal duty to retreat from altercations. However, the Florida law extends further protections for those who claim self-defense. “Organizing protests like this will help people understand (Florida’s) Stand Your Ground law or (Oklahoma’s) Make My Day law, because most people don’t understand the dangers involved in these laws,” Saché Primeaux, organizer of the event and head UCO’s chapter of the NAACP, said. Primeaux said that to ensure incidents like Martin’s death don’t occur locally the Oklahoma government needs to enact stricter gun Marilyne Gladney uses Tyquishia Gainey to sign a letter during a demonstration for control laws but she also believes racial profilTrayvon Martin Thursday, March 29, 2012. Trayvon Martin is a black teen who was ing is another rising issue. murdered in Florida. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista
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SPORTS
APRIL 3, 2012
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BRONCHOS SET FOR RUMBLE WITH CAVALIERS OF ST. GREGORY UNIVERSITY By Chris Brannick/ Contributing Writer The UCO Bronchos baseball team will welcome the Cavaliers from St. Gregory’s University this afternoon at 2:30 p.m. at Wendell Simmons Field. On March 27, UCO defeated St. Gregory’s 13-10 in a game played in Shawnee. Senior second baseman Tucker Brown collected five hits and five runs batted in during the afternoon contest. Brown capped his night off with a two-run homerun in the ninth inning. The Bronchos come into the contest riding a six-game winning streak during which they have outscored opponents 61-27. In a doubleheader home affair last week, the Bronchos almost scored as many runs in one game as they have allowed during this win streak, running past the Arlington Baptist Patriots 25-7. St. Gregory’s received three votes last week in the NAIA top 25 poll, the first time in their program’s history. Since then the Cavaliers are on a streak of their own. A 15-17 record has gone in the wrong direction after four straight losses. Broncho senior and first baseman Austin Rycroft continues to lead the way for the Broncho offense. Slamming 13 homeruns
while carrying a .409 batting average, Rycroft has played and started in each of UCO’s 33 games this season. Rycroft’s last homerun was the go ahead shot in the eighth inning against the Cavaliers in last Tuesday’s game. Fellow senior Kevin Blue has stepped up to the plate more than any other Broncho this season, taking a swing in 133 at bats. The infielder and Choctaw native is tied with Rycroft for the team lead with 52 hits. Blue also has 30 of those hits with runners on base, helping him towards 34 RBI’s. Sophomore Ethan Sharp will start for the Bronchos. Sharp has an 8.53 earned run average this season and has a one win, one loss record. Sharp also has fanned nine batters in 12.2 innings pitched including three in his last decision, the 6-4 vitory over Arlington Baptist March 28. The Bronchos are 21-12 in Head Coach Dax Leone’s second season in the dugout. Just three shy of last season’s total of 24. The BronSenior Kevin Blue, during a game Feb. 17, 2012 against Northwest Missouri State chos are looking for their twelfth home win. University. Photo provided. UCO boasts an 11-4 record at home so far this season, with only four home games remaining.
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THE BEN ZONE
HUMBLE, Texas (AP) — Hunter Mahan has the perfect mindset heading into this week’s Masters. Mahan shot a 1-under 71 Sunday to win the Houston Open, edging Carl Pettersson by one stroke and becoming the first two-time champion on the PGA Tour in 2012. The 29-year-old Mahan finished 16 under for the tournament and moved to No. 4 in the world ranking, the first time he’s ever been the highest-ranked American. “That’s a pretty surreal thing to think about,” Mahan said. “It shows me what I can do, shows me what I’m capable of.” The Houston stop became the run-up event to the Masters in 2007 Mahan will play in the Masters for the fifth straight year. He finished eighth in 2010 and 10th in 2009, but he’s never felt more confident heading to Augusta than he does now. “I feel like for my mind and ball-striking, everything feels good,” Mahan said. “I feel like I can play well and play well in many different ways, so that’s nice.” Mahan credits Canadian sports psychologist Jim Murphy with teaching him to enjoy the game more, and that’s led to better results this year. He has six top-25 finishes in seven starts this year, including a victory over Rory McIlroy in the final of the Match Play Championships in February. “It’s easy to let your mind run wild and get down on yourself,” Mahan said. “That’s what I used to do. I’m trying to pump myself up more and just believe in myself.” Pettersson (71) finished with eight pars for his second runner-up finish this year. Thirdround leader Louis Oosthuizen (75) was another shot back at 14 under. Mahan began the day two shots behind Oosthuizen, who lost the lead with two double bogeys on his front nine. Defending champion Phil Mickelson (71), Keegan Bradley (71), Brian Davis (74) and Jeff Overton (68) all finished 12 under. Three-time major champion Ernie Els finished 10 under and fell short in his bid to earn an automatic invitation to this week’s Masters. Els needed a victory to avoid missing Augusta for the first time since 1993. “It’s not going to change my life, either way,” Els said. “I’ve played many out there. It’s one of those things.” The Masters could offer a special invitation to Els, like tournament officials did for Greg Norman in 2002. Els has played well this year, earning topfive finishes at the Transitions and Bay Hill. But he said Sunday he would decline an in-
looking for the best player, the player who had the best statistical season or the guy who means the most to his team? Is Love’s “value” not evident in the Timberwolves recent success – albeit relative success – on the court? I will concede the point that the league as a whole would be more significantly impact-
ed by the loss of James or Durant than that of Love. Love, however, definitely makes the most difference for his team. I don’t know if Love deserves to be this year’s MVP, but he does deserve some votes. I think it’s about time we gave Love a chance. Pun totally intended.
Hunter Mahan watches his tee shot on the second hole during the final round of the Houston Open golf tournament, Sunday, April 1, 2012, in Humble, Texas. (AP Photo/Dave Einsel)
vitation if he received one at the last minute. “To go through all of this, and then get an invite, I wouldn’t take it,” he said. “They can keep it.” The problems for Oosthuizen began with a three-putt on No. 2. He holed a downhill 45-footer for a birdie on No. 3, but hit his tee shot on No. 5 into a divot and missed the green with his approach. He botched a chip and two-putted from 20 feet. Oosthuizen pulled his approach to the par5 8th into the native area, leading to his second double bogey. “I’m not going to be bothered about the way I played the front nine,” Oosthuizen said. “I had a few horrific lies and bounces. It happens.” Mahan parred the first eight holes, then finally took advantage of Oosthuizen’s collapse with a 5-foot birdie putt on No. 9. Pettersson missed a 19-foot par putt on No. 10, leaving Mahan in the lead by himself at 16 under. Mahan found a greenside bunker on No. 14 and bogeyed, then hooked his tee shot to the 204-yard, par-3 16th. He pitched onto the green, and the ball rolled down a slope to within 16 inches for an easy par. “I thought it was going to be good,” Mahan said, “but a tap-in there was huge.” Pettersson left an 18-foot birdie putt short on the 488-yard 18th, the hardest hole on the course, with a pond running down the length of the fairway on the left. Like Els, Pettersson needed a win to earn a trip to Augusta.
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APRIL 3, 2012 Softball
Opinion
THE BEN ZONE TIMMERMANS SETS NCAA D-II RECORD, BRONCHOS WIN AGAIN By Ben Luschen Vista Columnist
MVP VOTERS SHOULD LEARN THAT LOVE IS A WONDERFUL THING Today I’m going to be talking to you about Love. No, I’m not channeling my inner Dr. Ruth – I know you were getting excited. Instead, this column is about Kevin Love, basketball player for the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves and candidate for this year’s MVP. But wait, you say, Kevin Love is not a candidate for this year’s MVP. Perhaps you think I meant Kevin Durant, the 6’10” superstar playing right here in the 405 for the Western Conference-leading Thunder. Maybe you’ve heard of him, you add with a sarcastic, triumphant smirk. Wow, you’re really smug today, I respond. Yes, I am well aware of the fantastic season both the Thunder and their leading scorer are having. I’m also familiar with a certain fellow by the name of LeBron who has been playing well in Miami this season. I’m not saying I wouldn’t endorse either one of those guys for MVP by the end of the season, but I do think Love needs to be in the debate. Thunder fans are probably already familiar with Love for his involvement in a double overtime thriller the last time Minnesota came to town. In that game, Love had 51 points and 14 rebounds. Those numbers are extraordinary, but they aren’t too far removed from an average night for the Timberwolves’ big man. As of Sunday night, Kevin Love was tied for third place in the league in scoring, with 26.5 per game. The man he’s tied with? LeBron James. He’s also second in the league in rebounding, grabbing 13.7 each contest. If he doesn’t win MVP, Love should at least be considered for Most Improved Player. This season he took the leap from nightly double-double threat to franchise player. He added a legitimate three-point game to his arsenal and is much better at creating his own shot than he was last season. Even defensively, where he’s still not great, he has made some strides. Many scouts are calling him a much smarter defensive player than he used to be. The case against not only Love but all great players from teams below .500 has and always will be that a player needs to be on a winning team to merit MVP consideration. This isn’t a point I necessarily disagree with, but let’s make something clear. The Timberwolves were a playoff team before it was announced that point guard Ricky Rubio would miss the rest of the regular season. This is big news for a Minnesota team that has spent all of its post-Kevin Garnett days near the top of the draft lottery. Whenever debating about candidates for Most Valuable Player, the “Valuable” part is always the trickiest. Are we
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Senior Brittany Weaver during a game Feb. 19, 2012 against Emporia State University. Photo provided.
By Blake Colston / Contributing Writer Senior Nathalie Timmermans drove in the fourth-most runs in NCAA Division II history to help lead the No. 6-ranked UCO softball team past Truman State 12-8 in the first game of a doubleheader Sunday at Broncho Field. The Bronchos trailed 8-7 entering the final inning, but UCO loaded the bases and tied the game on an RBI single from Kayce Raines. That brought Nathalie Timmermans to the plate. The native of the Netherlands unloaded the bases and ended the game with a walk-off grand slam, sent deep over the centerfield fence on an 0-2 count. Timmermans’ nine runs batted in is a school record. “Nathalie came through with a bunch of clutch hits for us, nine RBI’s is just a ridiculous number,” head coach Genny Stidham said. “It didn’t look very good for us in the first game, but we didn’t give up and the girls found a way to get it done.” The second game featured less drama, with UCO winning 9-0 in a five-inning run rule. Senior Rachael Steverson earned the win in the circle to improve to 16-2, pitching five scoreless innings while striking out two.
Kacie Edwards led the way offensively for UCO in game two, driving in four runs on three hits. UCO began the weekend with a doubleheader sweep of Northwest Missouri State on Saturday, 6-0 and 9-1. Pitching was the order of the day as Rachael Steverson and Amanda McClelland combined to allow only one run in 14 innings of action. McClelland struck out a career-best 12 batters in game one en route to a complete game one-hitter. Stidham was pleased with the performance of her pitchers. “Amanda and Rachael both kept them off balance all day long,” Stidham said. “They did a great job and that makes us a very complete team when they perform that way.” Centerfielder Kayce Raines sparked the offense in game one. Raines delivered a two-RBI single in the third to put the Bronchos on top 2-0. UCO would score five runs in the third and cruise to a 6-0 victory. In the nightcap, UCO’s vaunted offense, which leads all of NCAA Division II with a .375 team average, exploded for 14 hits and nine runs. Senior Nathalie Timmermans belted her NCAA best 15th home run and went 3-4 in a
9-1, run-rule victory by Central. The Bronchos extended their Division II-best winning streak to 29 straight games with the sweep which equals the 10th-longest streak in Division II history. UCO improved to 15-0 at home and 31-3 overall after going 4-0 on the weekend. UCO begins a six-game road trip Tuesday with a doubleheader against Cameron in Lawton.
This Day in History The UCO Softball team last lost on Feb. 17 to Central Missouri. Also on that date... 2011 - Start of the Libyan Revolution 2010 - Kosovo Declares Independence 1972 - The Volkswagen Beetle overtakes the Ford Model-T in sales 1968 - The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame opens in Springfield, Mass. 1933 - The Blaine Act ends prohibition in the United States