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Elections to take place this week

By JESSICA GUEDEA Staff Writer

The Student Government Association of Texas Tech will have elections this week.

This year, 166 names are listed on this election’s ballot.

Polls open at 9 a.m. Tuesday and close at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The polls will be open for 34 hours and can be found online only, Amber Yanez, a junior marketing major from Houston and current internal vice president, said.

To vote, students can visit ttu.edu/ vote and use their eRaider login to vote, according to the SGA website.

The positions students will be voting for include president, external vice president, internal vice president, graduate vice president and senators representing the graduate school, Honors College, agricultural sciences, architecture, at-large, arts and sciences, education, engineering,

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President candidates are Ben Sharp and John Michael Getz. External vice president candidates are Alex DeRossi and Christopher Mitchell.

Internal vice president candidates are Larken Lundgren and Witt Westbrook.

Graduate vice president candidates are Chelsea Clark and Kevin Koestler.

Graduate senator candidates are Chelsea Clark, Rusty David, Dylan Lewis, Ashley Vaughan, Lauren Hutchens, Bryce White and Matt McCutchen.

Honors College senator candidates are Emily Jenkins, Brandon Anderson, Katharine Jenkins, Kaitlin Johnson, Farah Mechref and Andrew Barker.

Agricultural Sciences senator candidates are Walker Carson, Katelyn Keach, Alec Winfrey, Wes McCutcheon, Emily Fouts and Ciera Ware.

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Ringing in the Postseason Tech defeats Kansas State on Senior Day, Gotcher proposes

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marriage proposal and an 80-71 win ended the regular season for the Texas Tech men’s basketball team in a game against the Kansas State Wildcats on Saturday afternoon in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Tech’s win over the Wildcats brought the Red Raiders’ regular season total to 19 wins and 11 losses overall. Senior guards Devaugntah Williams and Toddrick Gotcher played their last game at home and both scored in double digits.

Tech coach Tubby Smith said even though the team shot well versus Kansas State, he does not feel that Tech has reached its top form as NCAA tournament time approaches.

“We’ve done some good things this year that gives us a legitimate chance at making the NCAA tournament,” Smith said.

“You can’t leave things to chance, we have to keep playing well.

We have to play better than we played today.”

Kansas State opened the game on a 12-2 run for the early go ahead. Williams ended the offensive drought for the Red Raiders by scoring from the right baseline after rebounding a prior shot attempt. A layup and right corner three cut the Tech deficit to 14-9, but the Wildcats answered shortly by making a 3-pointer and driving in a layup.

Nearing the final five minutes of the first half, Tech picked up the pressure at both sides of the court on the Wildcats and forced mistakes on possessions. Adding to the defensive effort, sophomore center Norense Odiase checked in for Tech near the 13-minute mark, his first time playing since going down with a foot injury in mid-January.

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ABOVE: The Texas Tech men’s basketball team celebrates after defeating Kansas State 80-71 on Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena. The Red Raiders will face TCU in the Big 12 Tournament on Wednesday in Kansas City, Missouri. RIGHT: Tech guard Toddrick Gotcher celebrates after his fiancée, Tech cross-country and track and field runner Kelly McQuaid, accepts his marriage proposal after Tech’s 80-71 victory over Kansas State on Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena.

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On Tuesday, the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences will kick off the 28th Annual Student Research Week.

“The research week is a student-run event,” Dr. Brandt Schneider, dean for the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, said. “We the faculty provide them with the logistics to get it all done. We provide the funding, support, office space and advice.”

Research Week was put together by the student research week committee.

Bala Meenakshi Purna, a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the Health Sciences Center was in charge of the whole operation. Dylan Meyer, a second-year doctoral candidate in the Health Sciences Center from St. Paul, Minnesota, was in charge of marketing. Jessica Smith, a third-year doctoral candidate from Amarillo, is in charge of judging and Narong Sok, a second-year biotechnology master’s student from Lubbock, is in charge of operations.

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The students did not have a checklist to figure out what they were doing, Purna said.

It was a long process putting this week together.

“I would say that it could be frustrating in the beginning, but once we got our roles figured out the process just smoothed out,” Meyer said. “I was in charge of advertising, so I designed the logo, ordered T-shirts and created fliers.”

The modern research week is all about celebrating student research, Schneider said. The research fair is growing because now not only biomedical students participate in it but also medical students, nursing students, students from medical professions and undergraduate students.

There is a category for undergraduate researchers, Smith said. There are about 17 students in that category.

It is not a huge category, Purna said, but the fair consists of mostly HSC students because there is not much advertising at the main campus.

“There are all these different categories in the research week. It has become really diverse,” Schneider

said. “It is very important to us for there to be diversity in research.”

Research week is intended to help promote research as fun, Schneider said. By fun, he said this means to show how productive research is and to make people passionate about it.

“When you have to teach someone how to do something you learn it better,” Schneider said. “These students are getting up and in front of other people to teach them what their research is about, which really helps these students learn and understand the topic they are working on.”

There are more than 215 students who will be presenting their posters, Schneider said. Their posters summarize their research questions, show their hypothesis and shows research topics. These posters help get people who are interested in their topic to come and talk to them and help them collaborate over these topics, he said.

Student poster presentations are essential for the student research week, Purna said. The best poster wins a prize at the end of the week.

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From left to right: Dylan Meyers, a second-year doctoral candidate, Bala Meenakshi Purna, a fourth-year doctoral candidate, Jessica Smith,a secondyear doctoral candidate and Narong Sok, a second year, a biotechnology graduate student were all involved in organizing Research Week.

Week, there will be a discussion session that is an open poster showing, and will take place from 4 to 5 p.m. every day, she said. People can come and talk to the students about their posters at this time.

“Research Week is not just all about the poster presentations,” Purna said, “but also there will be two notable speakers there as well.”

Mario Capecchi, who was awarded the 2007 Novel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, will be presenting a speech Thursday night at the banquet and a speech Friday afternoon as well,

Smith said.

Susan Amara, the scientific director at the National Institute of Mental Health and National Institutes of Health, will be speaking Friday morning.

There are different events for each day, Meyer said. After each event, the students will have an open poster session where, for about 10 to 15 minutes, they can speak and show off their posters along with the open poster sessions.

The students bring in all of the speakers and do all of the hard work, Schneider said. @MbaysingerDT

Tech makes campus diversity advancements Texas Tech has been working toward more diversity on campus, and in the past year, it has seen success in its advancements.

Juan Muñoz, senior vice president for Institutional Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement and vice provost for Undergraduate Education and Student Affairs, said some key advancements have happened recently.

Tech was recognized by

Inside to Diversity magazine, Muñoz said, and for the last several years, the magazine MUNOZ has honored schools with the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award. Tech received this recognition again.

“We were recognized as a HEED recipient,” Muñoz

said, “but this year they introduced the first-ever Diversity Champion award and they only recognized, from the 91 schools, 10, and Tech was recognized as an inaugural recipient. We were the only school in Texas to do so.”

Tech also hosted the meeting of the Big 12 chief diversity officers and was contacted by the education trust, he said. The education trust looks at success of

minority and multicultural students. It determined Tech has seen significant improvement in the advancement of black students.

“When you look at student diversity at Texas Tech, it’s grown significantly,” Muñoz said. “We’re almost a Hispanic Serving Institution, AfricanAmerican students has grown significantly and the success of these students.”

To become a Hispanic

Serving Institution, 25 percent of Tech’s undergraduate students have to be Hispanic. Factors such as income are also taken into account, Muñoz said. Tech is at approximately 23.5 or 23.3, as these numbers change with graduation rates.

The success of these students is important along with the number of students, he said. @KristenBartonDT

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Oil collapse hurts Houston nonprofits in nation’s energy hub HOUSTON (AP) — The oil downturn has many Houston nonprofits scaling back as donations plunge in the nation’s energy capital.

The Greater Houston United Way has warned member charities to expect a possible 10 percent cut in grants. The Pink Ribbon Project, which for two decades had an annual budget of about $1 million to promote breast cancer advo-

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cacy and research, is blaming a loss of major donors as a reason for why it will close its doors in May. Oil prices ended last week at just under $36 a barrel. Falling profits, spreading layoffs and the uncertainty about the duration of the downturn has wiped out usually reliable donors left others unable to maintain previous levels of generous support, the Houston

Chronicle reported Sunday.

“We have lost some of our major donors, or they may have scaled back significantly,” said Kristi Okwuonu, executive director of the Pink Ribbon Project. “Where they gave us $30,000 before, they may only be able to give us $3,000.

That happening multiple times made us take a hard look at our sustainability.”

The budget squeeze has

affected larger nonprofits as well. Although their survival might not be in doubt, they are being forced to cut programs and services they see as essential to their missions, and the demand for which may grow in tougher times.

“We are definitely feeling it,” said Elise Hough, president of Easter Seals of Greater Houston. “I have had several of our big donors tell us that 2016 is going to be our worst year, so get ready.”

In November, Hough said, the organization made tough decisions to streamline as much as possible, to cut positions and not fill open ones.

The nonprofit also combined services and went a second year without raises.

Martin Cominsky, CEO of Interfaith Ministries of Greater Houston, said his next budget could be as much as $1 million short of last year’s.

“Our economy in Houston is resilient, but there is no way around it when a big sector is hit that hard,” said Cominsky, whose organization runs the Meals on Wheels program for seniors and another program devoted to refugee services.

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Rules over apps like Uber, Airbnb bristle tech sector AUSTIN (AP) — Austin boasts a reputation as one of most cutting-edge cities in the U.S, but new local regulations on ridehailing apps such as Uber and rental sites such as Airbnb are stirring discontent in the tech sector, where some entrepreneurs say they’re now feeling less welcome.

Many U.S. cities are grappling with how to oversee the growing on-demand economy. But the fight has struck a particular nerve in Austin, where startups flock and Google is testing its self-driving car because of what the tech titan has called the city’s embrace of new technology.

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Triathlon Club hosts Dash, Splash event

By MALLORY BARNETT Staff Writer

The Tech Triathlon Club hosted a Dash and Splash event Saturday morning to raise money for its nationals competition fund.

Jason Graham, a junior economics major from Southlake and a three-year member of the Triathlon Club, said the club hosts a fundraising event for this competition every year.

“Every year we compete at the Collegiate Triathlon Championships,” he said.

“This year, they’re held in South Carolina at Clemson University, and this was a way for us to fundraise and to raise money in general so we can afford to take all of our team there.”

Graham said this is the first event of its kind that the Triathlon Club has done. “ We ’ v e d o n e s i m i l a r events in years past,” he said, “but this is the first time we’ve attempted a dual-sport kind of event where there’s swimming and running,” he said.

Graham said setting up for the event took a great deal of preparation.

“It was a lot of management and setup,” he said.

“We had to work with the Rec’s supervisors and set up the landlines, we had to

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ABOVE: A member of the Texas Tech Triathlon Club practices for the Dash and Splash Triathlon at the Aquatics Center on Saturday. RIGHT: A member of the Tech Triathlon team practices time trials at the Dash and Splash triathlon. The money raised from Dash and Splash will help the club to raise money for the national competition at Clemson University.

make sure the course was set up properly, and as far as having the race, we had to make sure we had all the proper equipment the necessary things to have a race of this caliber.”

Graham said his experiences with events similar to the Dash and Splash helped him and the club with necessary organizational skills.

“It helps with management and organizational skills, and it’s good to bring the community together just in general,” he said. “If we can put on a race that brings the community together, it greatly benefits us.”

Juan Sanchez, a freshman kinesiology major from Houston, said partici-

pating in events like the Dash and Splash allowed him to meet more people.

“When I first joined the club, I didn’t really know anyone,” he said, “but joining the team was a great way to meet new friends and make connections with people with things in common.”

Sanchez said the Dash and Splash was a great way to learn how to organize an event as an organization.

“I’ve never held a race, so it was nice to learn how to manage it and instruct people on where to go,” he said. “I’m usually competing, so it’s nice to be on the other side of that.”

Sanchez said the Triathlon Club plans to expand on the success of the Dash

and Splash.

“This was the first one we tried, and we are going to want to get something bigger and better,” he said.

“As years go by, we plan to make it bigger and bigger every time.”

Jessica Wolfe, a senior exercise and sport sciences major from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and president of the Triathlon Club, said the organization’s goal is to promote exercise and fitness in the community.

“I started with this club the spring semester of my freshman year, and honestly we swim, bike and run all the time,”

she said. “We just take advantage of the community events around us and promote that. There’s a lot of half marathons and 5Ks, and we’re really inspired by that, so we wanted to put on our own. To allow people to swim and run is a really great experience for them.”

When it came to promoting the event, Wolfe said the club used mostly word-of-mouth.

“We tried to use wordof-mouth as much as we could to all of our friends and all of the different organizations that were involved,” she said. “We also

got someone from the Rec to promote it. They’re having an Ironman Challenge, and this was the last day of it, so they sent it out to the community members who were participating in that.”

Wo l f e s a i d t h e c l u b plans to host more events like the Dash and Splash to inspire the community to become more active in triathlon events “These events are a lot of fun to plan and a lot of fun to put on,” she said, “and it’s definitely interesting to be on the other side of racing to motivate and encourage the people participating.” @MalBarnettDT

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Author Pat Conroy lauded after death at 70

Thousands attend memorial for police officer

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Author Pat Conroy, whose beloved works “The Great Santini” and “The Prince of Tides” are set against the vistas of the South Carolina coast that was his home, was lauded Saturday as a great chronicler of the human condition and a humble and loving soul.

Conroy, 70, died Friday at his home in Beaufort, about an hour south of Charleston, surrounded by family and friends at the time, according to his publisher.

The heavy-set author died less than a month after announcing on Facebook that he was battling cancer. He promised to “fight it hard” and told his fans “I owe you a novel and I intend to deliver it.”

A funeral mass will be held Tuesday at Saint Peter ’s Catholic Church in Beaufort with a private burial afterward.

Barbra Streisand, who starred in and directed the movie version of Conroy’s “The Prince of Tides” posted a picture of herself with Conroy on Instagram on Saturday. The 1991 movie starring Streisand and Nick Nolte earned seven Oscar nominations, including best picture.

“He was generous and kind, humble and loving ... such a joy to work with. I was so honored that he entrusted his beautiful book to me,” she said in a statement from her publicist. “Pat’s natural language was poetry ... he wrote sentences that are like an incantation.”

While Conroy had been ill in recent weeks, last October the University of South Carolina Beaufort held a 3-day literary festival featuring Conroy and discussions of his work and included a screening of “The Great Santini.” The event culminated with a 70th birthday party in his honor.

“The water is wide and he has now passed over,” his wife, novelist Cassandra Conroy, said in a statement from publisher Doubleday.

Nan A. Talese, Conroy’s longtime editor and publisher, said that the late author “will be cherished as one of America’s favorite and bestselling writers, and I will miss him terribly.”

Charleston Mayor John Te c k l e n b u r g , w h o h a d known Conroy most of his adult life called him “the

great chronicler of the time and place that I call home.

He saw it with clarity. He wrote of it with purpose.”

Conroy, who sold 20 million books worldwide, candidly and expansively shared details of growing up as a military brat and his anguished relationship with his abusive father, Marine aviator and military hero Donald Conroy. He also wrote of his time in military school, The Citadel in Charleston, and his struggles with his health and depression.

“The reason I write is to explain my life to myself,” Conroy said in a 1986 interview. “I’ve also discovered that when I do, I’m explaining other people’s lives to them.”

Much of his youth was spent in the shadow of Donald Conroy, who “thundered out of the sky in black-winged fighter planes, every inch of him a god of war,” as Pat Conroy would remember.

The author was the eldest of seven children in a family constantly moving from

base to base, a life described in “The Great Santini,” the film of which starred Robert Duvall as the relentless and violent patriarch.

The 1976 novel initially enraged Conroy’s family, but the movie three years later made such an impression on his father that he claimed credit for boosting Duvall’s career. The book also helped achieve peace between father and son.

“I grew up hating my father,” Conroy said after his father died in 1998. “It was the great surprise of my life, after the book came out, what an extraordinary man had raised me.” He would reflect on his relationship with his father in the 2013 memoir “The Death of Santini.”

“The Prince of Tides,” published in 1986, brought Conroy a wide audience, selling more than 5 million copies with its story of a former football player from South Carolina with a traumatic past and the New York psychiatrist who attempts to help him.

BEDFORD (AP) — Thousands of people gathered for a memorial service Saturday for a North Texas police officer who was fatally shot by a suspect, as speakers remembered a good officer and a caring man with a bright smile.

“It is a sad day for the city of Euless and its citizens,” said Jim Pack, chaplain of the Euless Police Department, as he opened the service. “It’s a reminder that safety in a free society comes with a high price.”

Euless officer David Hofer, who was 29, was gunned down Tuesday while responding to reports of shots fired in a park. Other officers fatally shot 22-year-old Jorge Brian Gonzalez, who police say had ambushed the officers.

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Former editor shares work experience C

ollege, for me, has always seemed like a large juggling game.

Classes require time and commitment, but so do friends, part-time jobs and getting some sleep. I am incredibly sad to leave The Daily Toreador, as it has been one of the only jobs I have known that lets me take a break from the constant juggling — it allowed me to make friends, learn new things and make a decent wage all at once.

I first made the decision to apply for The Daily Toreador after a terrible open-mic performance at Lubbock’s The Blue Light Live. I was trying to play some country music in a desperate attempt to get in a country band (considering I

wanted to make a living off of playing guitar, I would have to greatly lower my expectations of what a “living” was — I wasn’t getting paid anytime soon. The next day, I decided to pursue other jobs that would allow me to be creative, and I filled out an application to be a volunteer columnist for The Daily Toreador.

The first time I wrote a column for The DT, I think I paced around thinking and drinking coffee more than I was actually sitting down writing. My writing career had come to a halt after high school AP English, and my opinions? What of them? I was an aspiring guitarist who lived his whole life in Lubbock — I had no expert knowledge on complex poli-

Jarrod Miller is a senior French major from Lubbock.

never listen to country) and that particular night I had forgotten some of the lyrics and chords to a song I had written, leading to a pisspoor performance.

As I was packing up my equipment, I began talking with two established country guitarists, who did absolutely nothing to cheer me up — they talked of expensive equipment I didn’t have, important people I didn’t know and skills I did not possess. I realized that if I

tics or social dilemmas.

Fortunately, the students at The Daily Toreador were incredibly welcoming and gave me plenty of room to grow. It seems each major at Tech attracts a different type of student, and the students at The Daily Toreador (who are primarily journalism students), are some of the most aware and opinionated students I have ever met.

Not only did these students give me the opportunity to help write for their paper, but they also helped push me to try and understand the complexities of politics and social matters of which I was previously unaware.

Writing columns led to a summer reporting job, which led to a promotion to being

The DT’s opinions editor.

While I had no set office hours as a columnist, I began to work long nights with the other editors. Though a bit intimidated to work with these editors, I was also greatly impressed — though only employed part time, they cared deeply about their jobs and their workers, a trait uncommon among student workers.

Without a doubt, it will be the days I worked with the other editors that I will miss the most. Working with a team of passionate students is always rewarding, and I will have countless great memories from working with them. Whether it be the game of co-ed softball our team won in the rain (and would turn out to be the only game we

won), the late night food runs to The Market or the time I won our Fantasy Football league despite being clueless about football, (thanks to the help of Jennifer Romero, The DT’s La Vida editor), I have countless great memories with the students of The DT, and I could not thank them enough for giving me that opportunity.

The DT has given me countless memories, and I am incredibly grateful for the opportunities it gave me. I have seen few student jobs that provide knowledge, friends, a decent wage and a healthy working environment, but The DT gave me all of these and more. jmiller@dailytoreador.com

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Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim is eye opening

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n Saturday, Feb. 25, violence broke out in Anaheim, California, when a Ku Klux Klan protest rally was met with counter-protesters in Pearson Park, where the rally was to be hosted.

According a March 4 article on the LA Times website, the KKK was hosting a rally that was to be themed ‘White Lives Matter ’ and was expected to pass out fliers. However, whenever anti-Klansmen heard about this rally in town they took it upon themselves to put a stop to it.

Three men were stabbed and more than a dozen were arrested, but the Anaheim Police Department is investigating this case very carefully. The policemen have large amounts of evi-

Washington Post’s article, ‘Police: KKK members acted in self-defense when they stabbed 3 counter-protesters at meager rally,’ by Yana Wang, published on Feb. 29, Police Chief Raul Quezada said, “even if the vast majority of our community disagrees with a particular group who visits our city we cannot stop them from lawfully gathering to express their opinions.”

Some people of the community were not satisfied with the amount of time it took for the police to respond, however, as this was a very delicate situation. The police knew the KKK was going to have its rally and the group even asked the police for its own personal security, but they denied their services.

Emma Martinez is a sophomore English major from Odessa.

dence to go through, such as photographs, videos and eyewitness accounts, as the DA’s office was quoted in the LA Times article.

After hearing about this I wondered about how often things like this happen with the KKK. I actually didn’t even know that the KKK still existed in today’s society.

I never thought about the group still existing because of the hate crime laws. However, the First Amendment protects the group as long as it is not being violent. In The

In a recent LA Times article, Anaheim Police Sgt. Daron Wyatt said the department could have had 30 officers deployed, but that still would not have made a difference.

According to a police statement quoted in the Wang’s article “the KKK members ‘would have been torn limb from limb.’”

With negative feelings toward the KKK I can’t help but wonder how much influence they could possibly have on today’s society. However, Wang mentions that KKK membership has been declining for decades, from a “peak of 4 million in 1925 to between 5,000 and 8,000 Klansmen today, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.” Even though there are very few Klansmen

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today, the ones who are still around feel strongly about their ideals.

In fact, potential members have to believe very firmly in the ideals of the KKK or else they can’t even be a part of the group. I looked up an application to join the KKK and found one on the Traditionalist American Knights website.

It includes a list of requirements to follow such as: being a native-born, white non-Jewish American citizen, they must believe in the preservation and advancement of the white race and other requirements of that nature. I also noticed that the requirements include, “must be a believer of non-violence, except in self-defense,” but I fear that

putting the KKK and the phrase “non-violence” seems like a bit of an oxymoron. I do believe that they practice peacefully but, whether they like it or not, the KKK will always be affiliated with violence, given its past.

However, people must be careful when choosing their battles, and choosing to go against the KKK seems insignificant considering its drastic decline, hopefully toward extinction. According to the LA Times article, the police stated that the counter-protesters were seen on cameras rushing the Klansmen’s vehicle. There’s no point in risking jail time or life itself to prove one’s self to a dying breed. emartinez@dailytoreador.com

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Trump calls on Rubio to drop Some seeing Cruz WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Saturday called on rival Marco Rubio to drop out of the White House race after the billionaire businessman won in Louisiana and Kentucky — and the Florida senator ended yet another election night with no wins.

“Marco has to get out of the race. Has to,” Trump said at a news conference at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where dozens of friends and club members mixed in with reporters covering his campaign.

Rubio finished no better than third in any of Saturday’s four Republican primary elections and caucuses. Meanwhile, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won in Maine and Kansas.

Trump said that Rubio had “a very, very bad night,” and said that it’s time for the race to be a two-man contest between him and Cruz.

“You’ve got to be able to win. And he has not been able to win. And I think it’s time that he drops out,” he said of Rubio. “I would love to take on Ted one-on-one. That would be so much fun.”

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promptly rejected Trump’s call and continued to attack his business record and conservative credentials.

“Trump’s history as a con artist is being exposed,” said spokesman A l e x C o n a n t . “ Tr u m p knows that Marco has the momentum in Florida and is afraid because he knows losing those 99 delegates to Marco will be a turning point in this race.”

At his news conference in Florida, where Rubio is under intense pressure to win later this month, Trump also congratulated Cruz for his victories. But he joked that it’s natural

that Cruz won Maine because “it’s very close to Canada, let’s face it.”

Trump has questioned Cruz’s eligibility to be president, because the Texas lawmaker was born on Canadian soil. Many legal experts have said that Cruz is a natural born citizen who is eligible to serve as president.

With 123 delegates, Rubio is 255 delegates behind Trump in the race for the 1,237 needed to win the Republican nomination for president. Trump is leading with 378, while Cruz has 295. Ohio Gov. John Kasich has 33.

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Malaysia Airlines out of danger 2 years after disaster KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia Airlines is out of intensive care. Now it’s working on long-term rehabilitation.

Two years ago this week, disaster struck when Flight 370 vanished, leaving the company reeling from a crisis magnified months later by the downing of a second Boeing 777 over Ukraine.

Shunned by travelers and already ailing from years of mismanagement that saddled it with at least $1.7 billion in losses since 2011, the Southeast Asian airline teetered on the edge of bankruptcy, forcing its government owners to carry out radical restructuring.

New CEO Christoph M u e l l e r, a t u r n a r o u n d veteran, has been scaling back or cutting unprofitable routes, grounding jets and axing 6,000 workers

from a bloated workforce as part of a $1.7 billion overhaul aimed at returning the carrier to profitability as early as next year.

Analysts say, however, the strategy of shrinking to survive makes Malaysia vulnerable to fierce competition from the budget carriers proliferating to serve Asia’s booming, travel-hungry middle class consumers. Competitors include homegrown rival Malaysia AirAsia as well as Indonesia’s Lion Air, Singapore’s Tigerair and Scoot and Qantas offshoot Jetstar.

Mueller made his biggest move yet in December, unveiling a strategic alliance with Emirates that allows Malaysia Airlines to piggyback onto more than 90 of the Gulf carrier’s global routes as it shrinks its own network to focus on Asia.

The deal with Emirates, one of the world’s biggest airlines by seat capacity, was “definitely a rabbit out of the hat,” said Mohshin Aziz, an aviation analyst at Maybank Kim Eng Securities. “Yet they made it happen. For me, that’s definitely a solid foundation for their future survival.”

Still, the unsolved mystery of MH370 haunts the airline.

Flight 370 disappeared after leaving Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014, carrying 293 people. No trace of the Boeing 777 has been found except for a wing part on a Reunion beach last year and, possibly, part of a tail section discovered last weekend on the Mozambique coast.

In June 2014, Flight 17 was shot down en route to Amsterdam by what Dutch

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Despite better than expected rankings in airline safety surveys, some travelers still worry, complicating Malaysia’s battle against cutthroat competition. Passenger traffic at Kuala Lumpur International Airport’s main terminal, used

by Malaysia Airlines and other full-service carriers, fell 9.2 percent last year, while traffic at the budget terminal rose 9.5 percent.

Mohshin credits Mueller, a German and the first foreigner to lead the airline, with making tough changes avoided by predecessors.

However, Shukor Yusof, founder of aviation research firm Endau Analytics, said Mueller’s strategy was too focused on shortterm gains.

as best alternative

WA S H I N G T O N ( A P ) — Republican leaders on Sunday grappled with the prospect that the best hope for stopping Donald Trump’s march to the nomination may be Ted Cruz — the only candidate who causes as much heartburn among party elites as the billionaire businessman, if not more.

The Texas senator split contests with Trump in Saturday’s voting, bolstering his argument that only he can defeat the real estate mogul.

Trump and Cruz are now significantly outpacing Marco Rubio in the delegate count, further shrinking the Florida senator ’s already narrow path to the nomination.

If Rubio’s slide continues, he would be the latest establishment candidate to fall victim to an angry, frustrated electorate that cares little about endorsements from party leaders or newspaper editorial boards.

Rubio has rolled out both at warp speed in recent weeks, but his appeal with voters is not keeping pace.

Rubio did pick up a victory Sunday in Puerto Rico’s primary, his second win of the 2016 cycle. Democrats were holding a caucus Sunday in Maine.

The wary interest in Cruz from more mainstream Republicans is the latest unexpected twist in a GOP race where talk of a contested convention or third-party candidate is becoming commonplace.

“If Ted’s the alternative to Trump, he’s at least a Republican and conservative,” South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said. While Graham made sure to note that it’s

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Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, said Cruz is indeed “emerging” as the chief anti-Trump candidate.

“I think a lot of people were surprised by how well Ted Cruz did,” said Romney, who has thrust himself back into the political discussion with a searing takedown of Trump in a speech last week.

Romney has stepped back into the spotlight at a moment of crisis and chaos for the Republican Party.

Leaders in Washington who assumed hard-liners such as Cruz represented a minority view have been left wondering if they’re the ones out of step with voters.

For months, GOP elites have lumped Trump and Cruz together, arguing that neither could win in November’s general election.

Cruz is an uncompromising conservative who has publicly criticized party leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., for what he sees as a pattern of giving in too easily to President Barack Obama.

To many in the Senate, Cruz is seen as a colleague focused more on raising his own profile that achieving policy wins that benefit the party. He particularly angered Senate leaders when he helped orchestrate the 2013 government shutdown, which failed in achieving the senator’s stated goal of defunding Obama’s health care law.

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FAFSA priority deadline is March 15

By HALEY DAVIS Staff Writer

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid priority deadline for the Fall 2016 semester is fast approaching. Texas Tech students have until midnight on March 15 to complete their requests for financial aid to be considered under the priority deadline.

“Missing this priority deadline pushes everything back,” Angela Mazzolini, unit assistant director and program director of Tech’s Red to Black program, said.

“It doesn’t mean you won’t receive financial aid, but you run the risk of there not being enough money.”

According to the College Board website, about twothirds of full-time students pay for college with the help of financial aid in the form of grants and scholarships.

Approximately 57 percent of financial aid dollars awarded to undergraduates are in the form of grants and 34 percent are federal loans.

To complete the FAFSA, students need to have their personal and income information, according to the FAFSA website. If they are considered dependent, they

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At-Large senator candidates are Christopher Mitchell, Courtney Seely, Sandra Addo, Haley Sparks, Jillian Monastra, Allie Eklund, Sean M. Lewis, Bradley Trangsrud, Natalie Tran, Kelsey Holt, Colton Magaro, Sterling Shrum, Adam Telfah, Cole Carey, Larken Lundgren, Rachel Myers, Haley Neal, James Maynard, Regan Gauntt, Alissa Payne, Casey Buscher, Will Wilder, Jacob Howle, Taylor Gore, Kylee Dacy, Morgan Sharp, Tanner Luehrs, Tyler Parnell, John Michael Getz, Thad Brock, Sophia Marziale, Sam Ott, Ben Sharp, Avery Martinez, Hunter Hall, Owen Key, Bryce Winfrey, Jude AlHmoud, Tyler Herring and Obie Hallum.

Arts and Sciences senator candidates are Cole Adams, Payton Gregory, Krystal Garcia, Colton Eaton, Dhruv Patel, Sara Sorge, Rainey Rizzo, Jocelyne Espinoza, Klara Keim, Kadeem Archer, Gavin Jones, Jonathan Castro, Byron Orajiato, Chase Duran, Stephen Jehle, Robbie Meyer, Theo Winter, Stacie Moss, Alex Arnold, Noah Hearn, Jamal Elam and

also need to fill out their guardian’s tax information.

Most traditional undergraduate students are categorized as dependents, and according to the FAFSA website, students are only considered independent if they fall within certain categories such as being older than 24, married, enrolled in graduate school or a veteran, as well as some others.

If students have any financial questions or need guidance, Mazzolini said the peer financial coaches in the Red to Black program are always available.

“The coach tries to help the student establish financial priorities,” Kelly McCune, graduate assistant for Red to Black, said.

“Whether it’s creating a budget, paying off debt, maximizing their potential loans or even saving for study abroad. Students usually utilize two sessions to get them on track.”

The peer financial coaches are personal financial planning majors and minors, according to the Red to Black website, and the program utilizes a peer-to-peer model, because students understand other students better than faculty can.

Cailene Conrad.

Education senator candidates are Shelby Rose, Whitney Zielinski, Katy Fiorello and Brooklyn McKinney.

Engineering senator candidates are Mekdad Albehacy, Arjun Ogale, Micaela Reed, Easton Turner, Jennifer Anderson, Katrina Wagman, Jordan D. Dossey, Seth Boettcher, Zane Andrews, Amin Mohammed, Taylor O’Hair, Shelby White, Taylor Hicks, Joshua Lake, Roshan Bimali, Matthew Carroll and Francis Cobbinah.

Human Sciences senator candidates are Aaron Castillo, Palak Ghetiya, Micah Adams, Natasha Ceaser, Leslie Amaya, Aspen Frederick, Dre Colquitt and Olivia Latham.

Media and Communication senators candidates are Jordan Frierson, Ariana Martell, Shanae Swack, Landon Currier, Courtney Plunk and Shay McMullan.

Rawls College of Business Administration senator candidates are Caleb Richardson, Joe Connelly, Jaymie Newman, Hunter LoCascio, Nathan Brown, Taylor McDonald, Tyler Humphreys, Jacob Jimenez, Sidney Henderson, Hope Haber, Andrea Urias, Travis Carnes, Callie Gilmore and TJ McMickle.

Visual and Performing Arts senator candidates are Hannah Hansard, Kaitlyn Faseler, Me-

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108 cats seized from North Texas house

VERNON (AP) — The Humane Society of North Texas has been granted custody of 108 cats seized from a small home in the town of Vernon near the Oklahoma border.

The Fort Worth-based group got custody of the cats, which were seized Feb. 25, on Friday, the Fort Worth StarTelegram reported.

Vernon police Sgt. Wayne Hodges described the condition of the 1,100-square-foot home as “deplorable.” He said two of the home’s bedrooms had been blocked off from the cats, leaving them crammed in about an 800-square-foot space. An open dining area served as a litter box, he said.

The cats are being held at a quarantine facility in Crowley, near Fort Worth.

Vernon, a city of about 11,000, is about 160 miles northwest of Fort Worth.

Hodges said animal control officers had been trying to work with the cat’s owner after complaints first surfaced a few years

ago that the now 56-yearold woman was hoarding cats. At that time, Hodges said, the cats numbered around 20 to 30.

Eventually, he said, officials reached out to the Humane Society of North Texas.

“It finally just came to a head that we had to do something,” Hodges said.

Most of the cats had parasitic infestations and respiratory infections. Five have been preliminarily diagnosed with feline leukemia virus or feline immunodeficiency virus — lifethreatening conditions that, if confirmed, will require the animals to be euthanized.

Whitney Hanson, humane society spokeswoman, said while many cats of hoarders cannot be adopted out because of a lack of socialization with humans, those seized in Vernon are “very, very social.”

She said her group will work to find them new homes once the cats recuperate and are spayed and neutered.

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When completing the FAFSA online, students have the option to add schools they want their applications sent to, according to the FAFSA website, so there are no addi-

tional steps after submitting the application to make sure Tech receives a copy.

Mazzolini said the sooner students submit their FAFSAs, the sooner the fi-

nancial aid office can calculate financial aid amounts and students can begin the acceptance process.

“All the paperwork, including the master prom-

issory note and entrance counseling, is expedited when students submit their FAFSA by this priority deadline,” Mazzolini said.

gan Reyna and Gabby Jordan.

The ballot can be found online prior to elections.

Students are seeking a variety of things from their potential SGA candidates.

Shelton Cotton, a sophomore finance major from

Longview, said he wants to vote for a candidate who can do something about parking services.

“It would be nice to have more clarity of when and where parking is allowed around campus,” Cotton said. “I want

SGA to better regulate parking services and try to improve TTU parking email services.”

Sydney Ross, a freshman communication studies major from Floresville, said she wants someone who could work to provide a better notification

system for students.

“For instance, there was a bomb threat scare on Friday and we never received a Tech Announce email or call,” Ross said. “They need to do a better job at notifying us.”

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Tech loses in second round of tournament

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

The Texas Tech Lady Raiders lost against Baylor 82-51 in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Championship tournament this weekend at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. To get to the quarterfinals, Tech defeated Iowa State 89-84 on Friday.

Against Iowa State, freshman guard Japreece Dean led the team with 28 points. The rebounding game also got stronger in the second half from freshman Zuri Sanders.

Sanders led the team with 14 rebounds.

The increase in rebounding in the second half helped Tech close the halftime deficit and eventually win, coach Candi Whitaker said.

Sophomore Dayo Olabode also helped the team, shooting six of the 10 total 3-pointers.

Olabode said that she focused on the rim and was confident in shooting the

three the morning of the Iowa State game.

“Dayo coming off the bench was huge in the Iowa State game,” Whitaker said.

“We knew that she struggled during her sophomore season after her freshman season and she did not give up.”

Other players, including senior Jamie Roe, contributed to the total 27 points off the bench. Whitaker said every time she called on someone, they came out to play.

There were differences for the team between the other two times that Tech faced Iowa State this season, Olabode said.

“We got more shooting attempts this game,” Olabode said. “Last game (against Iowa State), we didn’t play as hard as we should have.

Today, everyone on the team felt the energy. I could see in everybody’s eyes that they were ready to play.”

Whitaker said the energy the team brings to the game directly applies to whether they play good or bad.

The Iowa State game was the best win of the season for Whitaker, she said.

“We had to battle so hard because Iowa State played so well,” Whitaker said.

“We had multiple people have fantastic performances. This is probably the best win for Tech since I have been here.”

The next day, Tech lost in the quarterfinals against Baylor, 82-51.

Dean led the offense again with 17 points, but only connected on eight of her 23 shooting attempts and missed all five of her 3-point attempts.

The whole team’s field goal percentage started to falter in the second half of the game. According to a Big 12 news release, Tech only hit 10 of 36 attempts in the second half.

“Baylor is very good,” Whitaker said. “They are extremely difficult to guard.

They have a huge inside presence that keeps coming at you.”

Sanders also led Tech

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Texas Tech guard Ryann Bowser prepares to play defense after a successful offensive possession for the Lady Raiders. Tech lost to Texas 76-55 on Feb. 24 in the United Supermarkets Arena. in the rebounding category in the Baylor game with 15. Sanders said crashing the boards is something the coaches emphasized to win the game.

According to the release,

Tech only led for one minute and 38 seconds throughout the entirety of the game.

Their largest lead in the game was two points in the first quarter.

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game of the 2015-2016 season. They ended the season ranked ninth in the Big 12 and went 5-15 in conference play. Tech’s final record is 1318 for the 2015-2016 season. @DavidGayDT

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Tech snatched a 30-28 lead from the Wildcats in the final two minutes on a pair of jumpers from Odiase and a layup off a rebound from Gotcher. The deficit for the Wildcats deepened in the closing seconds as sophomore forward Zach Smith connected a dunk off a lob pass from sophomore Keenan Evans.

Odiase’s return to the lineup, Tubby Smith said, gives the team more options to manage game time situations.

“Now we have a little more relief inside with Norense,” he said. “I expect Norense to play a lot more.”

At halftime, Tech led the Wildcats 36-28. As a team, Tech made 60 percent of its shot attempts and Williams scored the most points in the opening half with 12. Kansas State sank 46 percent of its field goal attempts and freshman forward Dean Wade led in scoring with eight points.

Coming out of halftime, Tech increased its advantage to 43-30, as Zach Smith made a layup, a follow-through free throw and Gotcher nailed a left corner three.

To stay in the game, Kansas State attempted to make a comeback by scoring from

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Texas Tech forward Justin Gray runs down an empty court after a steal during the first half of Tech’s 80-71 win over Kansas State on Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena. the low post. Junior forward D.J. Johnson handled scoring from the paint for the Wildcats by scoring the first 10 points in the second half.

Despite Johnson’s presence down low, Kansas State could not score from outside the paint.

A 10-0 run by the Wildcats brought Tech’s largest lead down to just eight entering the final six minutes.

A pair of threes from the top of the key from junior forward Aaron Ross halted the Wildcat run and gave the Red Raiders some space. Evans joined Ross on

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the outside by shaking off a defender and falling back for a 3-pointer to increase Tech’s lead to 68-55 as the game clock reached the final four minutes.

Kansas State made its first 3-pointer of the second half with two minutes left to come within eight from tying, but trips to the line by Tech kept the game out of reach.

In his final game at home, Williams finished as one of the top scorers by matching his teammate, Evans, at 20 points. Smith, along with Gotcher, scored 13 points.

As a team, Tech finished the game shooting for 59 percent and outrebounded

the Wildcats 35-25.

Despite recording his final minutes at home, Williams said he handled senior day like any other game.

“It’s been a regular day,” Williams said. “We’re just looking forward to getting back on the practice court and getting ready for the tournaments.”

Capping off his 13-point game with family in attendance, Gotcher stopped fans leaving the stadium as he proposed to his girlfriend, senior cross-country and track and field runner Kelly McQuaid.

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Gotcher said many emotions followed him before proposing to his fiancée.

“It’s been a lot of things going through my mind,” Gotcher said. “I’m just happy for my team and we’re

excited for the future.”

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Lakers stun Warriors in No. 6 Texas defeats No. 22 West Virginia Golden State’s 6th loss OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Celina Rodrigo scored 12 points to help No. 6 Texas defeat No. 22 West Virginia 67-51 in a Big 12 women’s tournament semifinal.

The Longhorns will face No. 4 Baylor in the championship game. The Lady Bears defeated No. 24 Oklahoma 84-57 in the other semifinal.

Brooke McCarty and Ariel Atkins each scored 11 points and Imani Boyette added 10 for Texas (28-3), which shot 48 percent from the field.

Baylor won both regularseason meetings with Texas, including a 74-48 win last week that cost the Longhorns a share of the conference title.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jordan Clarkson scored 25 points, D’Angelo Russell added 21 and the Los Angeles Lakers stunned the Golden State Warriors 11295 on Sunday, handing the defending NBA champions just their sixth loss of the season, all on the road.

Kobe Bryant added 12 points in helping the Lakers earn one of the biggest upsets in NBA history and their biggest victory in a downtrodden farewell season for Bryant, who spent the fourth quarter on the bench resting his aching right shoulder.

Stephen Curry led the Warriors with 18 points on a day when they were awful offensively. Klay Thompson added 15 points, but the Splash Brothers were a combined 1 of 18 from 3-point range. In all, the Warriors missed 26 of 30 attempts from long range.

Golden State fell to 55-6 and the Lakers improved to 13-51.

The loss snapped Golden State’s seven-game winning streak and was their first since a 32-point blowout defeat at Portland on Feb. 19.

Draymond Green just missed a triple-double, with

nine points, 10 rebounds and nine assists.

The Lakers effectively put the game away in the second quarter, when they built a double-digit lead that Golden State threatened just once. Thompson had four points and Andrew Bogut two in a 6-0 run that drew the Warriors to 65-57 early in the third.

That was as close as they got the entire second half.

Clarkson answered with a pair of 3-pointers sandwiched around Julius Randle’s dunk and the young Lakers kept on rolling. Brazilian Marcelo Huertas fed Larry Nance Jr. for an alleyoop dunk in the fourth that had the fans exploding in cheers, seemingly exorcising the demons of another losing season for the onceproud franchise with the league’s third-worst record.

The Lakers stretched their lead to 16 points in the third, when both teams scored 24 points apiece.

The Warriors scored five straight to trail 84-73 going into the fourth.

Nick Young hit back-toback 3-pointers and Huertas scored four in a row to keep the Lakers ahead 95-79 in the fourth.

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Red Raiders close home tournament 4-2 overall

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

The Texas Tech softball team finished its first home tournament, the Texas Tech Invitational, with a record of 4-2 as it completed three doubleheaders over the weekend at Rocky Johnson Field.

Tech coach Adrian Gregory said after a long road schedule, the team enjoyed its turn at home field advantage.

“I think the atmosphere is fantastic to be at home for our kids to sleep better in our beds and to come out with our home crowd,” Gregory said. “There’s nothing like it.”

Tech opened its home schedule in a Friday doubleheader by defeating the McNeese State Cowgirls 4-1 Friday afternoon.

Junior pitcher Mattison Maisel worked nearly five full innings of spotless work in a winning effort until a hit to the right gap broke her hitless streak.

Backing up Maisel’s first successful home outing, the Red Raiders placed a run in the opening inning on a double from junior first baseman Brittany Warnecke to bring senior center fielder Jordan Bettiol home from second.

Maisel said she felt comfortable in the pitcher’s circle throughout her appearance with a good defensive effort from her teammates.

“Knowing that they have my back, I feel unstoppable,” Maisel said. “Just knowing that they have our backs, even if I miss a pitch, is awesome. I know they’re going to be there.”

Senior shortstop Brooke Scott added another run at the bottom of the fourth by hitting a long ball toward left field for her first home run of the season. An error on a ball hit to the third baseman expanded Tech’s lead to 3-0 on a hit from senior second baseman Jessica Hartwell.

On a 1-0 count, junior outfielder Kierra Miles lifted a

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Tech found itself in some trouble at the top of the sixth as runners at the corners placed the potential tying runs. The Cowgirls, however, squeezed out just one run by hitting a double, but two unassisted outs closed the inning.

Against the Ohio Bobcats in the second game of the Friday doubleheader, the Red Raiders blasted long balls in the first three innings of the game.

Miles joined the fun first at the top of the opening inning, and in the second Scott hit her second homer of the day and drove in senior designated player Kirsten Schwirtlich.

Up 3-0 at the start of the third, Schwirtlich sent another ball out of the park to drive the score up to 6-0 and at the top of the fourth, Miles made a 7-0 lead by hitting a double dribbling down left field.

Ohio avoided the possibility of calling the game short

by mercy rule at the bottom of the fourth by scoring three runs. Sophomore right-handed pitcher Cheyene Powell recorded no hits before the fourth and after recording an out on a fly out, Ohio broke the hitless streak with a single which hit Powell on the left side of the face.

After the hit, Ohio added another runner on base and hit a home run to cut the deficit to 7-3. Another homer at the bottom of the sixth made it just a twopoint Tech lead, but the Red Raiders held off the Bobcat threat.

On Saturday, Tech split its doubleheader with an 11-6 win over McNeese State and a 6-2 loss to Ohio, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Miles placed the first two runs for the Red Raiders on a two-run blast in the opening frame. At the top of the

third, Tech plated its most runs in a single season by driving in nine.

Tech’s last four runs of the game came on a sacrifice and a bases-loaded double from Warnecke.

McNeese State divided its six runs of the game in the fourth and fifth innings.

At the bottom of the fourth, the Cowgirls made it onto the scoreboard on a triple and consecutive singles. Another triple the next inning trimmed Tech’s lead, but Powell kept the Cowgirls without a score for the remainder of the game.

Junior pitcher Dominique Alcocer earned the win on four and one-third innings of work as she allowed six earned runs and six hits.

Versus Ohio, the Red Raiders took the lead in the third inning on a single, but a throwing error the following inning tied the game up.

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A two-run blast from Ohio at the top of the sixth broke the tie, and after a homer from Miles, Ohio added three runs in the seventh off of a triple and a RBI single.

Closing out the weekend, Tech lost its first game of the Sunday doubleheader 10-1 in six innings to the Lady Jacks of Stephen F. Austin.

At the top of the third, SFA started its 10-run barrage by scoring on a single with runners on the corners. SFA then doubled down center for a 3-0 advantage and closed out the inning by bringing a runner in on a pass ball.

A solo shot down left and a three-run blast upped the Tech deficit to 8-0 to put the Red Raiders in need of a run to keep the game alive. Bettiol brought Tech’s lone run at the bottom of the fifth to push the game one more inning by taking home on a throw to second.

Tech, however, allowed two more runs the following inning as SFA’s third home run put the Red Raiders 10-1.

A sac-fly from junior catcher Susan Welborn drove in Schwirtlich at third for Tech’s first run of the game. A suicide squeeze play on a bunt from freshman left fielder Kiani Ramsey tacked on another run for the Red Raiders at the top of the third. Tech distanced itself by scoring four runs at the bottom of the fifth.

In the fifth inning, Welborn said Tech handled the inning different than the innings prior.

“Obviously some things weren’t going our way,” Welborn said. “It’s just a game of failure and you just have to cope with it. We decided to have fun with that and realized we had more success than that.”

A double from Miles drove in Bettiol for her second run of the game and a basesloaded sac fly followed by an error advanced Tech’s lead to 6-1. In their final turn at bat, the Road Runners staged a comeback by hitting three consecutive singles.

A fielder’s choice on a bases loaded situation a single and two wild pitches cut UTSA’s deficit to 6-4, but with two outs on the board, the final batter hit into a 5-3 play.

As a whole, Gregory said she was not pleased with Tech’s overall play in its first home tournament.

“I think we play really well against ranked teams so I really like our approach against a higher opponent, but I dislike our approach against a deemed lower opponent,” Gregory said.

“I feel great about going to A&M because they’re ranked higher than us.”

Tech softball posts a 10-12 record at the end of its tournament before beginning a three-game series against Texas A&M at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Aggie Softball Complex. @DGaytanDT

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Red Raiders earn three regional awards M’s defeat Rangers The Texas Tech track and field team won three regional awards from the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Senior Bradley Adkins got the Men’s Field Athlete of the Year while men’s assistant coach Calvin Robinson and women’s assistant coach James Thomas got Assistant Coaches of the Year awards.

According to a Tech Athletics news release, this is the second year in a row a Tech team member has received the Men’s Field Athlete award. Adkins leads the NCAA, ranks second in the USA and is 18th in

the world in the men’s high jump this season.

According to the release, Adkins got the NCAA lead after clearing 2.29 meters/7-6 feet. Adkins has also finished in the top three in every meet he has competed in this season.

Tech assistant coach Calvin Robinson received this award after his first year of coaching the men’s sprinters at Tech.

According to the release, Robinson coached senior Chris Caldwell to the Big 12 Championships in the 60- meter hurdles.

He also coached the

4x400 team to make up the second-fastest team in school history and the fifthranked team in the NCAA. According to the release, this is Robinson’s second time to receive this award in his coaching career.

Coach James Thomas received this award after coaching the women’s jumpers and the women competing in the combined events.

Tw o o f h i s a t h l e t e s won Big 12 titles: senior Shanice Stewart in the pentathlon and junior Viershanie Latham in the triple jump.

According to the release,

his group accounted for 62 of the total women’s team points at the conference meet. This is Thomas’s fifth honor in the four years he has been at Tech, according to the release.

“This is a great honor c o m i n g f r o m t h e U S TFCCCA, but it’s an even greater acknowledgement to our athletes at Texas Tech,” assistant coach Thomas said in the release. “Our coaching peers vote for the award, but I’m extremely fortunate to coach a group of young women who provide something for them to vote for.” @DavidGayDT

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Texas Tech infielder Ryan Long slides into home during the game against Cal State Fullerton on Saturday at Rip Griffin Park. Tech won the game 6-5 but lost the other two games of the three-game series.

By BRANDON SOLIZ and DAVID GAY The Daily ToreaDor

Friday evening the No. 23 Texas Tech Red Raiders began a three-game home series against the No. 22 Cal State Fullerton Titans.

The Red Raiders found themselves trailing quickly after an RBI single by Fullerton’s first baseman Tanner Pinkston.

Fullerton’s starting pitcher Blake Quinn pitched lights out, as senior first baseman Eric Gutierrez was the only Red Raider to record a hit during the 5.2 innings that Quinn was on the mound.

For Tech, junior starting pitcher Ryan Moseley did not fare well against the bats of the Titans.

Moseley exited the game after 4.1 innings pitched with a total pitch count of 90 and allowed seven hits, five runs and only one strikeout.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock said he gives credit to Quinn for his performance on the mound in game one.

“I thought Quinn was really good,” Tadlock said. “More than anything, tip your hat off to (him).”

The Titans added three more runs in the fifth inning

to increase their lead to 4-0.

In the top of the seventh inning, Fullerton added two more runs to its lead, one coming off a balk by junior pitcher Chandler Eden.

In the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded, Tech sophomore second baseman Michael Davis drew a walk for the Red Raiders, putting Tech on the board.

The next at-bat, senior infielder Cory Raley came in to pinch hit for the Red Raiders and recorded an RBI single to put Tech on the board once again, but the effort would fall short.

Tech dropped game one of the series by a final score of 7-4.

Gutierrez said the team needed to carry the final inning of the game into game two to try to come out on the winning side, and the team did just that.

Saturday morning, the Red Raiders took on the Cal State Fullerton Titans in game two of three with first pitch at 11:35 a.m.

Freshman right-handed pitcher Ty Harpenau started for the Red Raiders, which is his third start of the season for Tech.

The Titans were able to get on the board first with a

6-4-3 double play ball that advanced the runner on first in the top of the second inning.

However, Tech senior first baseman Eric Gutierrez was able to work a 3-1 count and take his fifth pitch over the wall in left field to put Tech ahead 2-1.

After a walk by the Titans’ starting pitcher, John Gavin, sophomore second baseman Michael Davis doubled to left center field to bring home the runner from second base.

Tech went up 3-1 heading into the third inning.

In the top of the fourth, the Titans were able to get a man on base and followed with an RBI double to cut into the Tech lead.

Freshman right-handed pitcher Davis Martin took over the mound for Harpenau.

In the bottom of the fifth, junior outfielder Stephen Smith extended the Tech lead to 5-3.

The Titans, however, scored two runs in the sixth inning to tie the ballgame.

In the bottom of the eighth inning, junior third baseman Ryan Long was walked and senior outfielder Zach Davis was called on to pinch run.

Michael Davis then followed with a sacrifice single to advance Zach Davis to second

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Texas Tech pitcher Ty Harpenau makes a pitch during the game against Cal State Fullerton on Saturday at Rip Griffin Park. Harpenau surrendered two runs in 3.2 innings, settling for a no-decision. base. Senior catcher Tyler Floyd then hit a deep double to left field to bring home Davis to put Tech ahead, 6-5.

Floyd recorded two RBIs on his two hits for Tech in game two of the series.

Tadlock said that the best thing he liked about Floyd is how he is as a person.

Floyd said he was glad that Tadlock let him stay in the game with the situation that was presented. Floyd is often swapped for a pinch hitter in situations where the game is on the line.

“In the past, I’ve been pinched hit for a lot,” Floyd said. “I’m thankful for the opportunity that coach (Tadlock) gave me there.”

Junior right-handed pitcher Hayden Howard took control of the mound in the seventh inning and lasted all the way until the ninth inning. Junior left-handed pitcher Robert Dugger then recorded the final two outs of the game, including a gamewinning strikeout, to give him

his first career save at Tech.

Tech defeated Cal State Fullerton by a final score of 6-5 to tie the series at one game apiece. However, game three was a reflection of what happened in game one of the series.

The Red Raiders fell to Cal State Fullerton in the final game of the series, 4-1.

Game three started with a leadoff home run from Cal State’s freshman Timmy Richards, and Tech could not catch up after that.

Junior left-handed pitcher Ty Damron started the game for the Red Raiders and lasted only three innings. Damron threw 45 pitches and gave up three hits and two runs.

“The reason why the pitching struggled today against Cal State was that we were not throwing first pitch strikes,” Damron said.

The poor pitching performances continued with freshman Ryan Shetter. Shetter only lasted 1.1 innings and gave up two hits and two

runs. Those four runs were all that Cal State Fullerton needed to win the game.

Both Howard and Dugger pitched again at the end of this game. Howard pitched two innings and gave up three hits and one strikeout. Dugger closed the game, pitching 2.2 innings of no-hit ball.

In the fourth inning, Neslony doubled to center field and brought in Smith for Tech’s only score of the game.

“There are not that many opportunities in a game like this to score,” Tadlock said. “(Cal State Fullerton) freshman Colton Eastman pitched really well.”

The Red Raiders are traveling for the next two weeks and will face teams including California, the University of Texas at Arlington and Baylor.

“We have a great opportunity ahead of us,” Tadlock said. “The four-game set at California could do a lot for us.” @TheDT_sports

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Smith, players earn Big 12 honors

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Tech coach Tubby Smith discusses the game plan for the next possession during a time-out in the second half of the Red Raiders’ game against TCU on Feb. 23 in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Smith was named Big 12 Coach of the Year after leading the Red Raiders to a 19-11 overall record and 9-9 record in conference play.

On Sunday, the Big 12 Conference and league coaches selected Texas Tech head basketball coach, Tubby Smith, as the Big 12 Coach of the Year.

Senior Tech guard Toddrick Gotcher, junior forward Aaron Ross and sophomore forward Zach Smith received All-Big 12 Honorable Mention honors, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Tubby Smith led the Red Raiders to an overall record of 19-11 and a 9-9 conference record.

According to the release, this is the program’s highest win total dating back to the

2009-2010 season.

This season, the Red Raiders picked up three victories against Top 25 ranked teams for the first time in school history. Included in the three wins is an upset over a thenranked No. 3 Oklahoma team on Feb. 17.

Gotcher leads the team in points per game with an average of 11.2 points per game.

He also recorded a team-best 17 games with scoring in double figures.

Ross led the team in conference play with 12.5 points off of the bench, according to the release. He has a league-best

91.9 free-throw percentage and shot 44.2 percent from beyond the 3-point arc, which is good enough for fourth in Big 12 games, according to the release.

Zach Smith averaged 10 points, 7.2 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game.

Through his sophomore season, Zach Smith sits at No. 9 in school history with 90 career blocks, according to the release.

Tech plays its first Big 12 tournament game of the postseason at 8 p.m. on Wednesday in Kansas City, Missouri, in the Sprint Center. @BSoliz_DT

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Tanaka sharp in first outing but Yankees lose C L E A RWAT E R , F l a .

(AP) — Masahiro Tanaka’s road to opening day is off to a promising start.

The right-hander tossed two scoreless innings in his first spring appearance but the New York Yankees

lost 6-5 to the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday.

Tanaka looked fine after having a procedure in October to remove a bone spur on his pitching elbow. He allowed two hits, walked one and struck out two.

“I’m pretty satisfied with how I pitched,” Tanaka said through a translator. “Just to see how I feel the next day is important.

Mechanics is also a thing I’m aware of, and hitting my spots.”