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o begin the 2016 season, the No. 25 Texas Tech baseball team won three out of its four games against Milwaukee.

On Opening Day, the Red Raiders found success at the plate all game in a 12-3 victory. Opening Day had a crowd of more than 4,000 fans for the second-straight season.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock said it was a day everyone on the team had been looking forward to for a long time.

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ways a lot of fun. I think all of us really cherished the moment of to be able to come out fresh. We haven’t played in a long time,” he said. “It’s always fun watching these guys play.”

Junior outfielder Stephen Smith saw the ball well with four hits, including three doubles, and three RBIs. His four hits were the most by a Red Raider on Opening Day since 2006.

Smith was quick to give credit to the other players in the lineup for allowing him be aggressive at the plate.

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1. Texas Tech left-handed pitcher Ty Damron pitches the ball on Saturday at Dan Law Field. Tech defeated the Milwaukee Panthers 9-1.

2. Texas Tech third baseman jumps to tag Milwaukee infielder Jeremy Wright on Saturday at Dan Law Field. Tech defeated the Milwaukee Panthers 9-1.

3. Texas Tech right fielder Stephen Smith hits the ball on Saturday at Dan Law Field. Smith had the most hits on opening day since 2006.

4. Texas Tech designated hitter Cory Raley slides back to first base after attempting to steal second on Saturday at Dan Law Field. Tech lost to the Milwaukee Panthers 10-3.

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Panhandle Pop Culture Ventures hosts first Lubbock-Con

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An attendee of the Lubbock-Con dressed as Boba Fett pauses for a photo on Saturday in the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center.

Lubbock-Con has been building a community of which Lubbock has not yet seen the likes of before.

Lubbock-Con was hosted Saturday in the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, which brought various vendors, guests and other attractions.

DeNae Griffith, president of Panhandle Pop Culture Ventures from Lubbock, said since the group has started, it has had events every month to raise money and be a part of the community. The PPCV has been slowly introducing Lubbock to what it has dubbed the geek community.

After going to different conventions similar to this, Griffith said the whole point behind the event was to bring out a different set of individuals to Lubbock.

“I grew up here, and I was in my

nerd closet for the entire time that I lived here,” she said.

Griffith’s goal in starting PPCV was to get people together from the comic book, tabletop gaming and cosplay community, she said. Now that the group is hosting more events, people around town are proudly exhibiting themselves.

Because the group is a nonprofit organization, the startup cost was built up by fundraising, sponsorships from local businesses and a Kickstarter campaign, Griffith said, and this shows the geek community around Lubbock is growing rapidly.

What set the event apart from other conventions is the community involvement, she said. Hub City Comic Con, which was hosted last August, was something vendor driven, meaning there was a monetary backer that was able to bring most of the convention here.

“This is the first Lubbock thrown convention,” she said. “And (there’s) something that we’re kind of really hoping for. My whole thing is Lubbock is still so big, but it’s still so empty and so there’s still so much room to grow.”

Lubbock-Con also happened to be on the same day as the Lubbock Pancake Festival, which was also hosted in the Civic Center, but Griffith said they worked with the Lubbock Lions Club to share the groups.

“People who like pancakes also like comics and people who read comics eat pancakes,” she said, “so we’ve been working with the Lions Club and we told them from the beginning, ‘we’re not trying to step on toes.’ They don’t have to worry about anybody competing with the people who come for pancakes.”

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Executive members discuss initiative progress

By KRISTEN BARTON News editor

On March 8 and 9, the Texas Tech student body will elect a new set of Student Government Association executive officers.

With these elections just around the corner, the executive candidates are planning their initiatives and looking at what this year’s officers accomplished.

Holton Westbrook, SGA president, said at the beginning of the year there were five themes he wanted the group to accomplish

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— scholarship, service, school spirit, safety and student government structure.

WESTBROOK Earlier this year, Westbrook said SGA wanted to distribute scholarships to students from a quasi-endowment, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador.

“We were able to create the scholarship for students and we were able to give $15,000 to students across campus through our office,” Westbrook said. “So that was really cool, after partnering with Dr. Juan Muñoz’s office.”

There were 100 applicants and 15 were chosen through the application process.

Westbrook said he wants to see this endowment and scholarship program grow even more as time goes on.

With this scholarship program, Westbrook said they were able to achieve their goal of scholarship for students.

The service initiative was

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More than half of Black History Month, February 2016, has passed. Various events and speakers, such as Harry Belafonte, have come to the Texas Tech campus to celebrate.

“I think Black History Month is important. I think it’s an opportunity for people to learn more about different cultures,” Shelby Jurca, a junior advertising major from Coppell, said.

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tory Month has not been as emphasized this year as in past years.

Not everyone is cognizant of when Black History Month is, she said, and many people do not realize it until someone actually mentions it.

“My opinion hasn’t changed, because I’m all for it,” Ryen Hollinger, a junior business management major from Fort Worth, said.

Aside from one of her friends telling her about Beyoncé’s halftime show and the cultural implica-

tions of it, Hollinger said she has not learned anything new.

“It’s good to have a month so that you can focus on it, and it’s like highlighted, but at the same time it should be, you know, constantly being talked about, if they want to, like, make a difference about it,” Hollinger said.

Melissa Elias, a junior public relations major from Lubbock, said Black History Month has not changed her current opinions on anything.

“I think that if we are going to have that month, then we should also celebrate other leaders that have stood up for change,” Elias said.

She said every ethnicity should be celebrated equally. In the same way there is National Cheesecake Day and National Wine Day, there should be more days bringing awareness to important people and issues.

“I follow more of the Morgan Freeman route.

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thing,” Thomas Hallford, a junior marketing major from Big Spring, said. “It’s just history.”

Hallford said he does not pay attention to race and we should celebrate all cultures all year long.

“I don’t think you can take a month and confine it to just one minority, or to describe the history of it,” Cesar Chavez, a senior media strategies major from Midland, said.

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vanced business class, they were gonna be charged the same weight.”

This is unfair, he said, because the rest of the student body is paying a cheaper amount for that business class. SGA raised these concerns to administration and now there will be flat rates for courses.

Raider cash was also passed in a previous Board of Regents meeting, according to a previous article in The DT. Westbrook said there are currently three businesses that accept Raider cash and this semester, SGA is reaching out to more than 100.

“Overall, this past year has been great for Amber, Saba, Caleb and I,” Westbrook said. “Being able to have the opportunity to really understand the issues of the students and try to build those relationships with the students, with various organizations across campus and with administration.

We hope to utilize those relationships this year and for those coming in to build on that.”

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Fisher also wanted to get a partnership with Uber, Westbrook said. This requires working with the Lubbock City Council.

Fisher said he has been working with the City Council and having regular meetings to improve transparency.

“I have been finding ways to have safe practices when going out,” Fisher said. “At the start of this year I worked with Uber Texas to get a 20% discount for our students for the first week.”

Because of City Council ordinances, Tech is not able to create a full partnership with Uber past a marketing agreement.

SGA also worked with various offices across campus to raise awareness and understanding about differential tuition, he said.

There is now a website with frequently asked questions and a video for orientation.

“In the past some schools have charged specific colleges a flat rate fee for being an engineering student or a business student,” Westbrook said, “regardless if they are taking a history or an ad-

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the months and this was in collaboration with the police department, the chief information office on campus and the Office of the President,” he said. “We’ve narrowed it down to one, but now it’s just a matter of waiting on approval.”

Campus carry also impacted how this year ’s executive members addressed safety on campus, Westbrook said.

“This wasn’t something we had planned on seeing happen, but we had the opportunity the last six or eight months to really help shape that legislation for campus specifically,” Westbrook said.

“Hopefully in May we’ll see it across campus and see what it looks like publicly.”

To re-shape Student Government structure, Westbrook said the executive team looked at and changed the hierarchy of SGA. These changes can be passed down to the new president.

Additionally, the team worked with administration to gain more credibility to get student’s voices heard, Westbrook said.

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achieved by Caleb Fisher, external vice president, through Tech the Town, which is a day Tech students give back to the Lubbock community by doing service projects around the city of Lubbock.

Tech the Town will take place on April 9 and there are currently around 15 organizations and roughly 100 volunteers signed up, Westbrook said.

Fisher said Tech the Town shows students care about Lubbock and being part of this community.

SGA worked with Tech Athletics on a “swag wagon” on Fridays to increase school spirit around campus, Westbrook said. It was small, but SGA is looking into ways to improve it and other aspects of school spirit in the future.

To improve safety on campus, he said they are close to unveiling a safety app on campus. The app could be used to follow a friend home, call 911 with the press of a button or send a photo to the police department of a potential suspect or vandalism.

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cording to exit polls conducted for the Associated Press and television networks.

But it was the bombastic billionaire’s surprisingly strong performance among selfdescribed evangelicals in South Carolina that helped him notch another doubledigit victory and sweep all 50 delegates.

It was a grave blow to Ted Cruz, who invested heavily in his pursuit of religious conservatives here only to apparently finish a narrow third behind Marco Rubio, and it raises questions about whether Cruz can catch Trump in the March 1 glut of Southern primaries that the Texas senator has for months

identified as his best path to the nomination.

For Democrats, Clinton’s Nevada caucus victory over Bernie Sanders affirmed her strength among black voters. Like white evangelicals for Republicans, minority voters will play key roles in upcoming Democratic primaries, starting with the South Carolina on Feb. 27.

Among South Carolina Republicans who voted on Saturday, more than 7 out 10 described themselves as born-again Christians, and those voters were slightly more likely to say they voted for Trump (33 percent) than Cruz (27 percent). Trump even came close to Cruz

among the 4 out of 10 who said it matters a “great deal” that a candidate share their religious beliefs. Among the remainder who said religion matters only “somewhat” or less, Trump did significantly better than Cruz.

The senator spent weeks hammering Trump for his past support for same-sex marriage and abortion rights.

He chided Trump for his history of public vulgarity, casting it as unworthy of the Oval Office. After Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died on Feb. 20, Cruz warned voters not to trust Trump to nominate jurists who represented their values.

Cruz counted hundreds

of South Carolina pastors among his endorsements, and he campaigned with cable television’s Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson, a cult hero to conservative Christians for his unvarnished critiques of modern, secular society. The candidate also has taken to comparing his campaign to a spiritual “revival” and asking his supporters to pray that God “awaken the body of Christ” in America.

Trump’s ability to withstand that approach may be found in what else drives white evangelicals. Four out of 10 were angry at government, and nearly half of that group opted for Trump.

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for the GOP nomination isn’t unstoppable — yet.

Fresh off a commanding victory in South Carolina, Donald Trump declined to say the nomination was his to lose. But he quickly went on to declare, “I’m really on my way.” Soon enough, in a television interview, he was toting up electoral math all the way through Election Day and concluding, “I’m going to win.”

The candidates’ diverging flight plans demonstrated how the campaign spreads out and speeds up now. Nevada’s GOP caucuses are Tuesday, and then a dozen states vote in the March 1 Super Tuesday bonanza.

Trump was in Georgia exulting over his latest victory, Cruz headed for Nevada, and Rubio embarked on a Tennessee-Arkansas-Nevada trifecta.

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton savored her weekend win in the Nevada caucuses as Bernie Sanders acknowledged that while his insurgent campaign has made strides, “at the end of the day ... you need delegates.” He looked past Tuesday’s Democratic primary in South Carolina to list

Colorado, Minnesota, Massachusetts and Oklahoma as places where he has a “good shot” to do well.

Rubio and Cruz used the Sunday morning news shows to spin rosy-road-forward scenarios after complete but unofficial returns in South Carolina put Trump way up top, with Rubio squeaking past Cruz for second. But with roughly 70 percent of Republicans in national polls declining to back Trump, Cruz and Rubio tried to cast themselves as the one candidate around whom what Rubio calls the “alternative-to-Donald-Trump vote” can coalesce.

Rubio also took an aggressive run at Trump, faulting him for a lack of specifics on policy.

“If you’re running for president of the United States, you can’t just tell people you’re going to make America great again,” he said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

At a later rally in Franklin, Tennessee, a Nashville suburb, Rubio took note of the smaller GOP field after Jeb Bush’s departure from the race, and celebrated his biggest crowd of the campaign, estimated at more than 3,000 people.

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PARENT AND FAMILY RELATIONS

Students share weekend with siblings

By RYAN ORTEGON Staff Writer

Sibling Weekend is a series of events and family fun activities that were hosted by Parent and Family Relations on Saturday and Sunday.

The main goal of Sibling Weekend is to help siblings of current Texas Tech students bond with their brothers or sisters while also getting a glimpse of college life.

Pamela Carrizales, unit coordinator for Parent and Family Relations, said she believes the department chose events that would be fun for the siblings and also would give them a good idea of what Tech is all about.

“We give them a classroom experience, so what it’s going to be like in the classroom, museums, student organizations, what kind of organizations are on campus,” she said. “We have them go to different buildings and have them see what it’s like and experience what Texas Tech looks like, so I feel like the events does give them a big general idea of what it’s like.”

Sibling Weekend is for kids between the ages of eight and 15 years old, Carrizales said. These students are invited to come to campus and see Tech because it is a time in their lives where thinking about college is a good idea.

These siblings will hopefully be influenced by their Sibling Weekend experience to remember Tech when thinking about potential college enrollment.

“Sibling Weekend is for brothers and sisters to get together and just kind of connect,” she said.

“They’re not living at home anymore, and little brother and sister miss them and so we want them to be able to have a weekend just for themselves and then also show them what college is about.”

The students and siblings got to experience a wide range of activities from a comedy show with the Flying Tortillas improv groupto eating lunch and getting chess lessons from the Tech Chess Team.

Nadia Martinez, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from Keller, said she and her

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Fans of pop culture trends like comics, movies and TV shows attended the first ever Lubbock-Con on Saturday in the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. Many people dressed up as characters from these comics and shows for the event.

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According to the Lubbock Con website, there were also celebrity guest appearances at the event, most notably actor Sam Saletta from “The Little Rascals” and actress Samantha Newark from “Jem and the Holograms.”

The activities for the day also included numerous panel discussions over

topics such as movie zombies, YouTube video content creation and cosplaying, according to the website.

“I think for Lubbock Con we’re appealing to all fan bases that have been attracted to recent pop culture trends and phenomena,” Robert Mora, owner of Star Comics in Lubbock and event coordinator, said. “Everything from superheroes, obviously movies and television, to ‘The Walking Dead’ on television.”

To Mora, the fact that Lubbock is so isolated from other cities adds to the independence of the event. The city is able

brother Richard are very close and she was glad she was able to share the weekend with him and show him what kind of things he can experience at Tech.

“Whenever I go back home, we like to go to the movies and play sports whenever we can and just hang out and enjoy that time we have together,” she said. “From what he has told me, he is really excited to be here, especially because he wants to go into engineering as well and Texas Tech does offer a really good engineering program.”

She said she enjoyed the time she was able to spend with him and she hopes this experience has helped him see if he would eventually want to come to Tech or not.

“Being from Seguin, about seven hours away, my parents and my little brother wanted to see me,” Neil Klein, a cellular molecular biology major from Seguin, said.

“Matthew had been looking at going to some colleges, he is in the fifth grade now and you can to show the public that there is a fan base for this particular brand of pop culture, he said, and the exposure to things like zombies and anime in the mass media has begun to permeate in Lubbock.

Mora, who was part of a group that tried to host conventions similar to Lubbock Con from 2006 to 2011, said it was difficult to have the events take off, and it took both time and a larger group of people to pull off what they are doing now.

“Because the interest in this stuff, even since 2011, has grown exponentially,” Mora said.

As a comic book storeowner, he said he knows the interest is not new to Lubbock, but the exposure is like something he has never seen before.

The underlying theme behind Lubbock Con is the community involvement. Mora and Griffith said they are trying to help Lubbock have its own identity within the geek community. That all has to come from the community, Griffith said.

However, there is the risk of many new challenges for future events, as it is usually easier to mimic what other people do and model the convention after the ones hosted in Dallas and San Diego, Mora said. The growth can only come from a style that members of the Lubbock community can appreciate and enjoy.

“It’s that content and enriching the community and educating them about what convention life is about,” Griffith said, “and that way they can know what to expect at the next one and know what to expect at the other events.” @MichaelCantuDT

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Students and their siblings participated in a dodgeball competition during Sibling Weekend on Saturday in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. Parent and Family Relations planned events for students to spend time with their siblings and show them what life at Texas Tech is like. never start too early. My parents pushed me the same way, and you know I love Texas Tech, so I heard about Sibling Weekend and I said, ‘sure, absolutely.’”

Matthew Klein said the experience was great and

his favorite part of the day was the comedy show with the Flying Tortillas.

“I think what it allows Matthew to be able to do is realize that there is not just the colleges that are around our hometown, that there is

more that is out there,” Neil Klein said. “Tech has quite a few things to offer a wide range of students, and I think Tech is a great place to start off looking because we have everything, essentially.” @RyanOrtegonDT

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Fallen US WWII hero’s dog tag found ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Dorothy Hollingsworth was just 7 when her brother Tom left the family farm in Indiana to join the Army a few months before the United States entered World War II. She never saw him again.

N o w, m o r e t h a n 7 0 years after Pfc. Thomas E. Davis was killed in one of the war’s final, major battles, a tangible reminder

of her beloved sibling has been found on the Pacific island of Saipan — one of his Army dog tags.

“He was a great guy,” said Hollingsworth, 82, who lives outside Dayton, Ohio, noting that some of her earliest memories are of the tall, thin sibling 17 years her senior who always sat next to her at the dinner table. “He was

always laughing and singing and whistling.”

Cultural historian Genevieve Cabrera told The Associated Press in an email that she found the discolored metal tag sticking out of the soil of a farm field on Saipan in early 2014. It was embossed with Davis’ name, serial number, hometown and other information.

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Who should have won Album of the Year: Swift or Lamar?

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hat happened at the Grammys was not so much an issue of whose album is better — Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly” or Taylor Swift’s “1989” — but moreover an issue of race and our culture’s propensity to choose the white candidate over candidates like Beyoncé and Lamar.

I understand that Swift, much like myself, is seen as a “privileged” white woman, free from obstacles and notable tribulations. However, that does not mean that, consequently, she should be prevented from being recognized as the committed, successful and talented artist she has worked hard to be.

Just as any other artist has, Swift gave her life to this profession. She gave her life to the music she produces. She gave her life to this fame and, by the grace of God, received fortune along with that sacrifice.

What she gave up to pursue this profession is the greatest sacrifice she could have made for her music and we cannot penalize her simply because her circumstances were softer than Kendrick Lamar’s. We are quick to forget that, even though Swift might have come from a much cushier scene than Lamar’s, she sacrificed it, nonetheless, so she could sing for us. She put everything she had on the line, hoping her career as a musician could amount to more than what she gave up for it.

This stand, however unpopular, is one that needs to be acknowledged. Coming up from Compton is hard and uncomfortable and dangerous — I have so much respect for Lamar. But, we cannot penalize Swift for not being born into a similar situation. We cannot disregard her contributions to music simply because she didn’t start somewhere darker than Nashville, Tennessee.

Interestingly, this trend of popularly teetering toward the side of whoever has the bluest backstory is not just seen in this situation, but also in politics, the professional world and even when applying to college. We all remember those essay prompts that essentially exposed how

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sheltered and soft our lives had been up to senior year of high school. In fact, schools like Stanford and UC Berkeley are known for their propensity to accept students with a more dramatic and obstacle-ridden life story. Somehow, that seems like reverse discrimination.

We are discriminating against those who aren’t what we want, and in the case of who should win “Album of the Year,” we wanted a black guy from Compton to win.

It was “1989,” not “To Pimp a Butterfly” that, according to a Fuse report, broke records by selling 1,287 million records in a week. It was “1989” that was so loved (and probably severely overplayed) that esteemed artist Ryan Adams covered the entire album.

And, while Lamar’s artfully crafted album “To Pimp a Butterfly” exposes a more psychological side of Compton we are not accustomed to seeing, it is also thoroughly inspired by a childhood many of us are far from relating to.

I understand part of his album’s beauty stems from that reality — Lamar has provided us with an opportunity to empathize and given us a glimpse into what our life could have been. But, for the majority of those listening to his album, the circumstances which have given us countless struggles are quite different from Lamar’s.

But, this is not why Lamar didn’t win Album of the Year at the Grammys. His

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According to the Grammy aaiken@dailytoreador.com website, the Album of the Year award is given to the album that most “honors artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position.” I think that because Swift’s album won, the voters failed to apply the last New York Times report. part of that statement to While these looming, large their decision. budgets may have made the While both albums devictory of Bush and Clinton buted at No. 1 on the Billappear unstoppable, the resboard 200 chart, “1989” sold ignation of Bush proves the 1,287,000 copies during her American public has clearly first week, according to an become anti-establishment.

Oct. 26, 2014, CBS report, Both Trump and Bernie Sandwhile “To Pimp a Butterfly” ers, who has made surprising sold 324,000 copies its first gains against Clinton without week, according to a March near as many large donations, 25, 2015, Billboard article. have proved the American “1989” would eventually public will not be satisfied with regurgitated promises. American citizens want change and attention, and unfortunately Bush came to symbolize the bureaucracy Americans are increasingly beginning to resent.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Whether Bush would have Donald Trump barreled to vicbeen a better president than tory in South Carolina’s ReTrump or Sanders, the Ameripublican primary Saturday, can public will never know. deepening his hold on the GOP Bush could not convince Represidential field as the race publican voters he was the best headed into the South. “Let’s put fit for the presidency. The only this thing away,” he shouted to thing he proved, thankfully, is cheering supporters. that the U.S. voters can now Out West, Hillary Clinton firmly see their opinions count, pulled out a crucial win over and it is not just money and Bernie Sanders in Nevada’s political ties that decide who Democratic caucuses, easing the wins and who loses. rising anxieties of her backers.

At a raucous victory rally in Las jmiller@dailytoreador.com

Bush campaign resignation shows money, political ties not everything

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few months ago, when the 2016 presidential candidates started revving up their campaigns, I was convinced the U.S. would see another Clinton-Bush election.

All the polls indicated Bush had the strongest chance of securing the Republican nomination, and Bush’s large donors seemed to confirm the inevitable. How wrong we were.

On Saturday, Bush finally dropped out of the race. Most thought the resignation was a wise decision, especially after Bush ranked a dismal fourth place in the South Carolina primary, while a small minority held on to the hope he could save the GOP party from Cruz or Trump. For me, however, the resignation of Bush is a breath of fresh air. The great rise and fall of Bush was not only spectacular, but it also greatly represents the rise of anti-establishment sentiments in the 2016 campaign.

For the middle and lower class, it is getting harder to believe one’s vote actually counts.

Ever since the Supreme Court began to allow corporations and unions to make political cam-

Jarrod Miller is The DT’s opinions editor and a senior French major from Lubbock.

paign donations after their ruling on Citizens United v. FEC in 2010, we have seen the majority of our presidential candidates take huge sums of money from private corporations.

According to a Saturday Washington Post article, Bush had already spent at least $95.7 million on advertising.

For someone who placed fourth in the South Carolina primary, that is an incredibly large amount of money. According to the Feb. 1 New York Times article, “Which Presidential Candidates are Winning the Money Race,” the only candidate who has raised more money than Bush is Clinton with $163.5 million raised.

Both Clinton’s and Bush’s budget is significantly higher than Trump, who beat Bush in the latest primary, who has raised $21.2 million, according to a

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be the top-selling album of 2014 and, as of January, “To Pimp a Butterfly” has sold a total of 788,000 copies, almost hitting the first week total of Swift’s album sales. These numbers tell some of the story. In past years, the voters focused on the “artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence,” including when “The Suburbs” won in 2012, “Morning Phase” won in 2015 or even when “Random Access Memories” beat out both Lamar and Swift in 2014. But this year, the Grammy voters put more of an emphasis on album sales this year than in recent years.

While “1989” did win Album of the Year at the 2016 Grammy Awards, they did not choose the best album that was released that year.

They picked the album most popular by the general public and the one that was the easiest, least controversial choice.

“To Pimp a Butterfly” was also structured more as an album than “1989” was.

While both met the generic definition of an album, more than 25 minutes with more than four songs, “To Pimp a Butterfly” was structured more fluidly as a continuous story or idea than “1989” was. “1989” was an album full of fantastic songs. After all, the album contained chart-topping single after chart-topping single. Yet, it didn’t have the continuous theme that “To Pimp a Butterfly” had. As “To Pimp a Butterfly” continued to build from beginning to end, the themes of racism, depression and the importance of religion became more and more evident through each song.

Every song on the album took the previous song and added more and more depth to the overall album. And what was the continuous theme of “1989?” Shaking off a guy after being dumped? An album honored with the most prestigious award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences should have a deeper meaning than just being in and out of a relationship. Even Swift’s previous Album of the Year

win for “Fearless” in 2010 had more substance than singing about relationships.

Social commentary is also an important aspect of an album. Some of the best albums that won this award, including “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” in 1999 and “Graceland” in 1987, had something important to say about the time period in which it was released.

“To Pimp a Butterfly” spoke about what kinds of emotions people, especially African-Americans, were going through during this time period. This album spoke to the frustration of the continuing racism and discrimination that continues to this day.

Listeners 20 years from now will listen to this album as a reminder of what this time in history was like.

“1989,” as a whole, does not and will not have that same effect on people in the future. Listeners will appreciate some of the singles from the album, but not appreciate the album as a whole. This is why the Grammys should have honored the album most relevant to what was going on in this time period, not the one that is the most popular among the general public.

While “1989” did win Album of the Year at the 2016 Grammy Awards, they did not choose the best album that was released that year.

They picked the album most popular by the general public and the one that was the easiest, least controversial choice. There were two other albums in that category better than “1989:” Chris Stapleton’s stellar debut “Traveller” and “To Pimp a Butterfly.” I hope that in the following years, the National Academy of Arts and Sciences restructures its priorities in not focusing on album sales and instead focusing on the quality of the music.

While “1989” should have been nominated, it wasn’t the best album of the year and the Grammys failed to acknowledge and honor the best album of the year.

When my children ask me about the music I listened to in my senior year of high school and first semester of college, I will not show them “1989” as the first example. I want to show them an album that really speaks to the emotions of what people were going through at the time of its release. I want to show them an iconic album that spoke to me and drove me to learn more about music in general. I will show them “To Pimp a Butterfly,” an album that will go down in history as one of the most important rap albums to come out of this era and one of the best rap albums ever made. @DavidGayDT

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Trump wins South Carolina; Clinton takes Nevada Vegas, she lavished praise on her supporters and declared, “This one is for you.”

The victories put Clinton and Trump in strong positions as the 2016 presidential election advanced toward the March 1 Super Tuesday contests, a delegate-rich voting bonanza. But South Carolina marked the end for Jeb Bush, the one-time Republican front-runner and member of a prominent political family, who withdrew from the race.

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“I firmly believe the American people must entrust this office to someone who understands that whoever holds it is a servant, not the master,” Bush told supporters in an emotional speech.

South Carolina marked Trump’s second straight victory — this one by 10 points — and strengthened his unexpected claim on the GOP nomination.

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Lions Club hosts 64th Pancake Festival

By MALLORY BARNETT Staff Writer

The Lions Club of Lubbock hosted its 64th annual Pancake Festival on Saturday. Scott Cherry, president of the Lions Club from 1998 to 1999, said the Lions Club Pancake Festival is an event aimed at helping others in the community.

“The Pancake Festival is an annual fundraising event that was started in 1952, and we serve anywhere between 15,000 to 20,000 people,” he said.

“All of the profit goes to support worthy organizations primarily in the Lubbock area.”

Cherry said the Lions Club supports sight enhancement as well as helping those with disabilities live normal lives.

“We connect with programs that help children with sight problems or children that are handicapped or children with diabetes,” he said. “We also support programs that give clothing to children, Meals on Wheels, Lubbock Salvation Army and Boy Scout Troop 157.”

Cherry said his most rewarding experience serving in the Lions Club was seeing the organization’s impact on those who have disabilities.

“One of the other programs that we support is the Lions Camp for Crippled Children in Kerrville, and we had a young

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A mariachi band plays while attendees of the Lubbock Lion’s Club Pancake Festival wait in line at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center on Saturday. woman speak to our club who was a volunteer and camp counselor,” he said.

“She noticed that when the parents were dropping the children off — the children were all in wheelchairs — a little girl was crying, so she comforted the child and assured her that she would see her mom in a week. The reason she was crying was because the swimming pool

we built allowed kids to be rolled right into the pool, and she was so happy that she was going to have a normal camp experience.”

Cherry said his plans for future pancake festivals are to find new projects to get involved in and help the community in any way the organization can.

“I would like to find new projects and just help

anyone who needs help,” he said. “There are always going to be people who need help, and I want us to identify with them and give them the help that they need.”

Cherry said there are a large number of Texas Tech volunteers he is grateful for, as well as the various service organizations that help the Lions Club make

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Author Harper Lee buried in Monroeville, Alabama MONROEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — On a day when mockingbirds sang outside the courthouse that inspired her classic American novel, author Harper Lee was laid to rest in a private ceremony, a reflection of how she had lived.

A few dozen people who comprised Lee’s intimate circle gathered Saturday at a church in the small Alabama town of Monroeville, which the author used as a model for the imaginary town of Maycomb, the setting of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Lee

died Friday at age 89.

Lee’s longtime friend, history professor Wayne Flynt, eulogized her in a ceremony at First United Methodist Church. Afterward, her casket was taken by silver hearse to an adjacent cemetery where her parents, A.C. Lee and Frances Finch Lee, and sister, Alice Lee, are buried.

A spray of red and white roses covered the family headstone at the cemetery.

Flynt said he delivered a eulogy that Lee specifically requested years ago. Entitled “Atticus Inside Ourselves,” it

was a tribute Flynt gave in 2006 when she won the Birmingham Pledge Foundation Award for racial justice. Flynt said Lee liked the speech so much that she wanted him to give it as her eulogy.

“I want you to say exactly that,” Flynt quoted Lee as saying at the time. “Not one thing more, and not one thing less.”

“If I deviated one degree, I would hear this great booming voice from heaven, and it wouldn’t be God,” Flynt said in an earlier interview.

Details of the service were fiercely guarded. The author,

who for decades had declined media interviews, had wanted a quick and quiet funeral without pomp or fanfare, family members said.

“We obeyed her wishes,” said Jackie Stovall, Lee’s second cousin.

The town was appropriately somber a day after their native daughter ’s death.

Black bows adorned the doors of the old courthouse in Monroeville where Lee as a child, like her literary creation Scout Finch, would peer down from the balcony as her lawyer father tried his cases in the courtroom.

the event a success.

“We use about 1,000 volunteers to put on the Pancake Festival, and probably 700 of those come from Texas Tech service organizations,” he said, “so the Lions Club wants to express our appreciation for the Texas Tech students and all of the other service organizations that help make this possible.”

Taylor Nance, a freshman pre-nursing major from Sugar Land, volunteered at the popcorn booth and said this was her first year volunteering, and she enjoyed interacting with all of the people who came out to the festival.

“I really enjoyed getting to interact with all of the little kids and families and helping them have a better day and a better time here at the festival,” she said.

Emma Parkinson, a freshman marketing major from Los Angeles, was greeting and directing people to the festival. This was also her first time volunteering, and she said she admired the number of people who attended the event.

“I liked just talking to people while they were waiting in line just seeing how their days were,” she said. “I just love how many people came to this event. It feels like the whole community is involved and everyone here seems so friendly.”

Julia Dezendorf, a junior sports management major from Bedford, also volunteered at the popcorn booth and said she enjoyed the interaction with everyone who came out to the event.

“I loved getting to just walk around and talk to everyone and see how their day is going,” she said.

“Seeing everyone work together to make pancakes and make everybody’s day better was really exciting.” @MalBarnettDT

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Lennon’s hair lock auctions for $35,000 DALLAS (AP) — A lock of John Lennon’s hair that was snipped as he prepared for a film role has sold for $35,000.

Dallas-based Heritage Auctions said Saturday that the 4-inch lock of hair was purchased by Paul Fraser, a United Kingdom-based memorabilia collector.

A German hairdresser kept a tuft of Lennon’s hair

after giving him a trim before the Beatle started filming “How I Won the War,” a dark comedy released in 1967. The movie follows the World War II misadventures of British troops led by an inept commander.

The hair was one of several Beatles-related items on auction. A photograph of the iconic band signed by all four members went for $42,500.

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McQueen returns with sheer evening gowns LONDON (AP) — Dozens of designers showcased their latest creations Sunday at London Fashion Week, from retail giant Topshop and leather goods brand Mulberry to British design’s grand dame Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen, which made a highly-anticipated return from Paris to the hometown of its late designer.

The Alexander McQueen brand is back on the runways of London, the birthplace and hometown beloved of its late designer.

For the first time in more than a decade, the label, now headed by designer Sarah Burton, moved its womenswear display from its usual home in Paris to London Fashion Week.

Sunday evening’s show-

case opened with a series of tough black leather ensembles embroidered with large shimmering butterflies, lip motifs and stopwatches — as if Alice in Wonderland was playing dress up.

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Burton dialled up the decadence for the show’s last section, sending models out in the sheerest evening gowns and capes dripping with sparkly crystals and dazzling embroidery.

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Tech defeats Oklahoma State, 71-61

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

A 71-61 victory sealed the fourth-consecutive win against a Big 12 opponent for the Texas Tech men’s basketball team in an away game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Saturday night in Gallagher-Iba Arena.

Three-point shooting drove the Oklahoma State offense in the first half with seven outside shots going in for the Cowboys. While Oklahoma State benefited from long range, the Red Raiders worked the post with junior walk-on forward Matt Temple scoring three shots from close range.

Closing in on halftime, both teams struggled to bank in shots to build a significant lead. In the final four minutes of the half, junior forward Aaron Ross scored the final seven points for the Red Raiders.

Sophomore guard Tavarius Shine gave the Cowboys a 26-24 lead over Tech with

a three and following a pair of free throws from Ross, senior guard Jeff Newberry downed another three to go up 29-26. At the 29-second mark, Ross tied the game with a deep three and the Red Raiders went to the locker room tied 29-29.

Temple led Tech in scoring in the first half with nine points, and the Red Raiders combined for a 47.6 shooting percentage. Newberry scored 11 for the Cowboys, and Oklahoma State shot for a low 35.7 percent.

Opening the second half, Tech gained some ground on the Cowboys by taking a nine-point lead at 42-33 after a jumper from Temple with nearly 17 minutes left to play. A cold shooting streak from the Red Raiders, however, kept the game open for Oklahoma State and a 7-0 run put the Cowboys behind by just one at 42-41.

Tech kept pushing the Cowboys back and regained an edge with a pair of 3-pointers from senior guards Devaugn-

tah Williams and Toddrick Gotcher, but Newberry nailed another three and cut the Tech lead to 52-46 with nearly eight minutes left in the game.

Oklahoma State sent Tech to the line twice after Newberry’s three but missed their shot attempts to allow Shine to cut the advantage further with another three.

Sophomore forward Zach Smith finally ended Tech’s missed free throw streak with a pair and Gotcher added a couple more to up the lead to 56-49 with almost five minutes left.

En route to a career-high 24 points, Gotcher drove the ball down the court to the right baseline after a Cowboy turnover and placed a layup through a pair of defenders.

Gotcher ’s layup and a couple of free throws from sophomore guard Justin Gray gave Tech a 60-49 advantage with less than four minutes left to play.

Oklahoma State chipped away at the lead with a three, but Tech made use of

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Texas Tech guard Keenan Evans celebrates after a winning possession during the second half of the game against Oklahoma on Wednesday night in the United Supermarkets Arena. the clock to close out the win.

Tech’s away win improved the Red Raiders’ overall record to 17-9 and sent their Big 12 record to the .500 mark at an even seven wins and seven losses.

Gotcher finished the game going 7 of 10 with five 3-pointers on seven shot attempts.

Tech combined for a 52.1 shooting percentage, and the Cowboys shot for 38.9 percent with Newberry finishing as

the top scorer with 16.

Tech will look for its fifthconsecutive win as it hosts the TCU Horned Frogs at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the United Supermarkets Arena. @DGaytanDT

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Lady Raiders remain undefeated at home The No. 10 Texas Tech women’s tennis team continued its dominance with its third win in a row since making the top 10 against Brigham Young University this past Friday at the McLeod Tennis Center.

Tech won all four of its singles matches against BYU and won the series 5-2. With this win, Tech improved its record to 9-1, according to a news release from Tech Athletics.

Sophomore Sarah Dvorak and freshman Felicity Maltby

both won their matches to remain undefeated this season.

Maltby defeated BYU freshman Taylah Beckman 6-3, 6-2 and Dvorak defeated BYU junior Toby Miclat in a closer result, 7-5, 6-4, according to the release.

On court one, sophomore Gabriela Talaba defeated BYU junior Mayci Jones in a close match resulting in 7-6 (4), 6-3.

Talaba won by a competitive tiebreaker to end the match.

Sophomore Sabrina Federici also won her match in a nail-

biter against BYU junior Natella Nabieva. Federci came back from a 2-6 start and won two straight sets 6-2, 6-1 to win the match.

The two points from BYU came from senior Nicolette Poulsen defeating Tech junior Lynn Kiro in straight sets 7-5, 7-5. Junior Savannah Ware also defeated Tech freshman Alex Valenstein in the final match of the day 2-6, 6-3, 3-2 (6).

In doubles play, Dvorak and Valenstein defeated Beck-

man and Ware 6-2 at the No. 2 position. Federici and Maltby, defeated Navieva and Paulson 6-2 in the No. 3 position. After this match, their record is 7-2 for the season.

On court one, Kiro and Talaba had their match against Jones and Miclat halted. They were trailing BYU 5-4 when it was stopped due to victories on courts two and three.

“I was happy to get the doubles point since that’s something we’ve been struggling with lately,” Tech coach

Todd Petty said in the release.

“We’re going to continue to work on that and try to improve going into Sunday.”

Tech also won all of its doubles matches and defeated the College of William & Mary 6-1 on Sunday.

Dvorak and Valenstein defeated freshman Lauren Goodman and sophomore Maria Groener 6-1 to continue their streak from Friday. Kiro and Talaba also won against junior Marie Faure and senior Elizaveta Nemchinov 6-1.

Tech also won five out of the six singles matches against the College of William & Mary on Sunday.

On court one, Talaba defeated Nemchinov 6-4 and 6-3. On court two, Dvorak defeated Faure in two sets, 7-6, 6-1. Federici, Maltby and Jackson also got wins in their matches.

Tech will face No. 33 r a n k e d Wa s h i n g t o n a t noon today at the McLeod Tennis Center. @DavidGayDT

MEN’S TENNIS

Red Raiders improve to 14-1 with weekend victory On Saturday, the No. 10 Texas Tech men’s tennis team returned home and added two more victories to its impressive record.

The Red Raiders took on UTSA to begin the doubleheader. Tech lost the doubles point to UTSA but saw a strong outing in the singles portion of the match, accord-

ing to a news release from Tech Athletics.

Freshman Bjorn Thomson, senior Hugo Dojas and sophomores Connor Curry and Alex Sendegeya clinched victories on their courts, according to the release.

Against No. 70 Utah State, Tech was able to capture the doubles point,

followed by back-to-back wins by freshman Augusto Stodart and Curry, according to the release.

Sendegeya then closed the match with a victory on court three with a 6-2, 6-4 outing.

The Red Raiders returned home after the ITA National Indoor Championships where the team

lost its only match so far on the season.

Masi said he believes the team was tired at the beginning of its return.

“We’ve been a little sick and worn out from last week,” Tech coach Brett Masi said in the release.

“It showed early in the doubles against UTSA

but we bounced back and played really well in singles against Utah State.

Alex and Bjorn have both been doing a really good job. We’ve got a lot of work to do and we’ve got to get our doubles in order. In singles, we are so tough and strong at the bottom of the lineup between

Bjorn, Alex, Jolan (Cailleau) and Connor.”

Next up for the Red Raiders is a trip to North Carolina to take on NC State at 3 p.m. Friday and then at Wake Forest at 10 a.m. Sunday.

Tech will return home on April 8 to face Tulsa. @BSoliz_DT

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Red Raiders go 1-4 in San Diego tournament

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

The Texas Tech softball team ended the Campbell/ Cartier Classic five-game tournament hosted at the San Diego State softball stadium with one win and four losses, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

A 6-0, two-hit loss began the tournament for the Red Raiders against San Diego Friday afternoon.

Only freshman second baseman Jessica Hartwell and freshman left fielder Kiani Ramsey recorded a hit against San Diego.

At the top of the first, San Diego grabbed a 2-0 lead with a throwing error at third base for the first score and a single to right center with a player at third base. Four hits in the third inning produced

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As a team, the Red Raiders hit .400 and .467 with two outs for the game.

Senior infielder Cory Raley and sophomore outfielder Tanner Gardner each added three hits and combined for four RBIs to help Tech pull away in the final innings of the game.

For the second-straight season, junior right-handed pitcher Ryan Moseley started on Opening Day. He allowed one earned run over five innings while the infield turned five double plays.

In the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader, freshman right-handed pitcher Ty Harpenau went five innings and limited the Panthers to three hits and one run while striking out seven batters in his first collegiate start.

Tech’s bullpen could not hold on to the two-run lead, however, and allowed nine runs over four innings

two more runs for San Diego.

Another fielding error added another pair of runs to the Tech deficit at the top of the fifth and with its opponent’s pitching not letting up, Tech failed to put a runner on base in its final three at bats.

Junior right-handed pitcher Dominique Alcocer received the tag for the loss after two and one third innings pitched, five hits, one walk and two earned runs.

In its second game of a Friday doubleheader, San Diego State blasted Tech in a 13-3 five-inning win.

Tech earned the first run of the game at the top of the first with a single by Hartwell to score center fielder Jordan Bettiol. After a quick three-and-out by San Diego State, the Red Raiders took a 2-0 lead at the top of the second with a home run

from junior second baseman Brittany Warnecke.

San Diego State finally put runs on the board in the inning following Warnecke’s homer by taking advantage of a bases-loaded situation and cramming in five hits for five runs.

Junior right fielder Kierra Miles scored on a single from junior third baseman Ashley Fultz for Tech’s final run of the game at the top of the third.

In the final two innings at bat, San Diego State scored five at the third and three at the fourth with the Red Raiders allowing a combined 10 hits and two errors in the final stretch.

Sophomore transfer Cheyene Powell received the loss with two innings pitched, eight hits, two walks and three earned runs.

in a 10-3 loss.

Junior infielder Ryan Long was the only Red Raider with more than one hit.

After a brief break, Tech rebounded with a 9-1 victory in the second game of the doubleheader.

Junior starting lefthanded pitcher Ty Damron and freshman right-handed pitcher Davis Martin combined for a two-hitter in the victory. Milwaukee’s lone run was an unearned one in the fourth inning.

Damron’s grandfather passed away the day before the game, giving Damron added motivation to pitch well.

“I’m really proud of Ty,” Tadlock said. “He’s prepared a long time for this opportunity to pitch and did a really good job going to handle that situation.”

The middle of the lineup, senior first baseman Eric Gutierrez, senior outfielder Tyler Neslony and Gardner each had two hits, a walk, one RBI and a run.

Last season, the offense’s biggest issue was hitting with a runner in scoring position. In game three, Tech went six out of nine with runners in scoring position

and .500 with runners on base, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador.

“Hitting with runners on is huge,” Neslony said. “Your approach has to be even better than before. I try and not do so much out there. I want to get the runners in, whatever it takes.”

In the final matchup of the four-game series, the Red Raiders continued to put points on the board by scoring three runs in the first inning.

After Gutierrez was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, Long hit a two RBI single to give Tech the advantage.

They added a single run in the third and fifth innings behind another RBI from Long and a RBI from Neslony. Tech chased the Panthers starting pitcher off the mound after five innings of work and allowing five runs on eight hits.

The offense was rolling in the eighth inning and Tech added seven more runs.

Long got his third hit and a career-high tying fourth RBI in the inning.

“You’re not always going to get results from hitting.

You’re not always going to see it as far as hits go,” Tadlock said. “But you really want to

TRACK AND FIELD

No. 18 Kentucky tacked on the third-consecutive loss for the Red Raiders in the tournament with a 10-0 five-inning win in Tech’s first game of a Saturday doubleheader.

Fultz prevented a nohitter with a single at the bottom of the fifth before the game came to a close.

After plating two with a single up the middle at the top of the first, Kentucky added another two runs later in the inning with a two-run homer. Kentucky then went without a run in the next two innings, but it sealed the game with a six-run fourth inning on five hits and one error.

Powell took the loss after one-third of an inning, three hits, four earned runs and one walk.

Tech finally broke the

losing streak with a 2-0 win over a No. 20 California team in its second game of the Saturday doubleheader.

Playing as the home team, Tech finally broke a no-run game at the bottom of the sixth. The Red Raiders loaded up the bases with a single, walk and bunt-single. A single from Bettiol sent two runners home for Tech’s only runs of the game.

Junior right-handed pitcher Mattison Maisel earned the win for her seven innings of work as she only gave up three hits and a walk.

Tech finished the tournament short of a comeback bid Sunday morning with a 5-3 loss to South Dakota.

The Red Raiders and South Dakota exchanged a run in their first at bats with Bettiol scoring Tech’s first run after stealing third and head-

ing home on a throwing error.

South Dakota took a 4-1 lead in the fifth inning, after scoring one in the third, with a pair of singles driving in its two runs of the inning.

Tech cut the lead with a run scored by senior shortstop Brooke Scott at the bottom of the fifth, but South Dakota added another run in the seventh on a sacrifice fly.

At the bottom of the seventh, the Red Raiders placed a run after throwing error and had two runners on with two outs. South Dakota ended the game with a five pitch strikeout.

Tech’s losses in the tournament set the teams’ overall record to 4-6. The Red Raiders Louisiana Lafayette next in a two-game series beginning at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at Lamson Park. @DGaytanDT

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Texas Tech left fielder Tyler Neslony hits his first home run of the season Saturday at Dan Law Field.

Tech won the third game of its four-game series against the Milwaukee Panthers 9-1. have good at-bats.”

The pitching was also in a groove as they combined for another two-hit shutout.

Freshman left-handed pitcher Erikson Lanning was the second Red Raider pitcher making his first collegiate start this week. He kept the Milwaukee bats quiet by throwing five shutout innings and allowing only one hit with four strikeouts.

Lanning also retired the first seven batters of the game in order.

“I felt pretty good. It’s all about positive reinforcement from the teammates,” he said. “I had a lot of guys behind me while I was throwing, just letting me know ‘hey, it’s just the same game you’ve always been playing. Don’t change anything. Win pitch by pitch.’”

For the weekend, Long hit .500 and had six RBIs while Gutierrez hit .538 and knocked seven RBIs. Smith also hit .588 while Gardner averaged .526 over the four games.

Tech will play its first midweek game of the season against Sam Houston State at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in Huntsville. @JeremyK_DT

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Lady Raiders lose to Kansas State on road Pole-vaulting team competes in Arkansas The Texas Tech Track and Field pole-vaulting team delivered at its last meet before the Big 12 Indoor Championships, in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Friday.

Senior Kyle Thompson recorded a second place finish in the men’s pole vault competition when he cleared 5.42m/17-9.25.

This performance is a personal best for Thompson and the fourth best clearance in Texas Tech history.

Thompson’s 5.42m/17-9.25 is also three quarters of an inch from the Big 12 lead this season.

Freshman Brandon Bray

started his day at the height of 5.22m/17-1.5 but failed to clear that bar successfully in the competition. Bray matched his personal best of 5.31m/ 17-5 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Feb. 12.

Senior Haley Cook also failed to clear her starting height at 4.00m/13-1.5 in the women’s pole vault event.

The track and field team returns to competition at the Big 12 Indoor Championships on Feb. 26-27 at the Lied Recreation Center in Ames, Iowa. @DavidGayDT

The Texas Tech Lady Raider basketball team lost its fifth-straight game after a 65-53 away loss to the Kansas State Wildcats Sunday afternoon in the Bramlage Coliseum.

Kansas State never trailed throughout all four quarters and led by 10 points in the first quarter with a layup giving the Wildcats a 20-10 advantage before the start of the second quarter.

A 9-3 run in the second quarter placed the Lady Raiders further behind, but they trimmed the deficit with less than three seconds

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in the third quarter as the Wildcats made it to 50-point territory.

Behind 55-33, Tech and the Wildcats went scoreless for the first three minutes of the last quarter until a tip-in from Sanders broke the scoreless drought.

Sanders brought the deficit back down to less than 20 with a jumper and with almost two minutes left in the game, Tech brought down the deficit to as little as 12 at 60-48 on a layup from freshman guard Japreece Dean.

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After the tip-in by Sanders, the Wildcats outscored Tech 7-2 to end the first half of the game leading 36-22.

Tech shot for 28.1 percent in the first half of the game while the Wildcats made 40.1 percent of their shots from the field.

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ers, Kansas State, however, cruised in for the win to sweep the season series. The loss dropped the Lady Raiders to an 11-15 overall record and a 2-13 Big 12 record.

No Tech players finished with a scoring total in the double digits and the team shot for 33.3 percent. Kansas State’s offense made 38.9 percent of its shots and eight more points in the paint than Tech with 26.

Tech returns home with a game against the Texas Longhorns at 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday in the United Supermarkets Arena. @DGaytanDT

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