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Profile: Engineer developing tech, potentially finding life in space.

Softball: Cochran shows to be dynamic batter in first season.

Column: David Hogg too thinskinned to handle criticism.

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Bullpen continues to shine for Tech

By CONNELLY BOCK

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he No. 7 Texas Tech baseball team took two out three games in its series against the West Virginia Mountaineers, closing the series out with an 8-5 victory in game three on Saturday, March 31.

The Red Raider pitching staff held the Mountaineers to seven runs over the three-game series, with five of those runs coming in the series finale.

While starting pitchers junior Davis Martin, sophomore Caleb Kilian and sophomore John McMillon combined for a solid 17 innings, giving up just five earned runs on nine hits and six walks while striking out 19, it was the bullpen that shined.

Over the three-game series, the bullpen combined for 10 innings

pitched, giving up only two runs on four hits and five walks while striking out 10.

J u n i o r r i g h t - h a n d e r Ty Harpenau set the tone with a strong performance in Tech’s 1-0 loss in game one of the series on Thursday, March 29.

After entering the game in the seventh inning, Harpenau pitched three shutout innings, allowing no hits and only one walk. He struck out two batters and kept the door open for Tech’s offense to have a chance to win the game.

“Ty’s been sharp. That’s a really good spot for him,” Tech coach Tim Tadlock said after game one. “He kind of held the door for us. Really hate it for him and Davis (Martin) that we couldn’t go get them a couple of runs.”

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1: Sophomore right-handed pitcher Caleb Kilian throws to a batter during Tech’s second game against West Virginia on Friday, March 30, 2018, Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park. 2: Junior right-handed pitcher Davis Martin throws a warmup pitch during Tech’s game against Northeastern on Friday, March 23, 2018 at Dan Law Field. Martin, Kilian and sophomore 2 John McMillon combined for 17 innings against West Virginia, giving up just five earned runs.

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Even with recent rains, area still in drought

HSI committee to host panel discussion throughout April

By NATHAN NEEDHAM Staff Writer

With most of the Panhandle experiencing extreme drought conditions or worse, Texas A&M Forest Service and National Weather Service professionals warn residents about droughts and the impacts they have on wildfires.

This year the Texas A&M Forest Service – Wolfforth Task Force, has helped combat 45 wildfires in the Panhandle area, Mary Leathers, resource specialist and public information officer with the Texas A&M Forest Service, said.

“For the Panhandle we have responded to 45 fires with an estimate acreage of 48,500, saving over 120 homes with only 11 lost,”

Leathers said.

Last year Lubbock county collected above average rainfall, but since a drought began in October, Lubbock has received less than three-quarters of an inch of rain, according to The NWS Lubbock website.

This allowed for slightly above average plant growth last year, that has now dried out because of winter frost and very little rainfall, becoming a fire risk, Leathers said.

“We are in a drought situation and on top of that we have frost killed grasses, so there is a lot of fuel for fires to consume and that has been our biggest concern,” Leathers said.

Fuels are necessary for the start and spread of fires and not only include dried vegetation but also anything that can burn, Mike

McMillan, public information officer with the Texas A&M Forest Service, said.

“Anything that can burn is considered a fuel, that includes homes unfortunately,” McMillan said.

Historically, the drier than normal conditions experienced in the winter months by the Panhandle have been influence by a phenomenon known as La Niña, Ron McQueen, lead forecaster and fire and drought specialist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Lubbock, said.

“La Niña impacts the amount of rainfall during the winter in the southwest and any vegetation grown during the last season will dry out creating fields of cured fuels,” McQueen said.

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The Hispanic Serving Institute Committee of Texas Tech will host a series of informational panel discussions throughout April about the benefits of what an HSI designation means for the university.

The discussions will take place at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, April 10; Wednesday, April 11 and Thursday April 19, according to a memorandum from the Division of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Elizabeth Sharp, interim vice president for DEI will lead the discussion.

It was in late September that Tech announced it had reached the more than 27 per-

cent Hispanic-student enrollment that allowed it to take this designation. For schools to be considered an HSI it must have at least 25 percent Hispanicstudent enrollment.

Because of that, the university is now eligible for more funding, it has the potential to receive around $8 to $10 million in extra funding, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador.

Any questions surrounding the discussion should be sent to Sharp at elizabeth.sharp@ttu.edu or 806-742-7025. @MichaelCantuDT

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Library, student government hoping for solution to expensive book prices

By GRACE STARK Staff Writer

As a way to get a feel for the cost of book prices effects on students learning Texas Tech’s Student Government has started an initiative to potentially ease the burden off of students.

On Wednesday, March 21, Student Government Association President Robbie Meyer sent an email to Texas Tech students containing a survey to discuss what he considers true “March Madness.”

The survey was short at only 10 questions. SGA and the library partnered to produce it and help gain a better understanding on how much money students are spending on textbooks and the implications of those costs.

“Some other campuses

have done other similar surveys, but we really wanted to get an idea of what Texas Tech students thought about open textbooks and what they would use them for,” Camille Thomas, scholarly publishing librarian, said. “We wanted to find out what students felt comfortable paying, what kind of choices they were making with the classes they were enrolling with and how well they were doing in their class or if they were deciding not to buy the book because of the cost and things like that.”

They were focused on getting a good idea of what students are experiencing and that they did, Thomas said.

The survey results came back proving what they feared was true, students are suffering because they cannot afford

to purchase their textbooks.

“Some of the results were very humbling to say the least,” John Michael Getz, SGA vice president of graduate affairs, said. “Some people contributed a poor grade in their class to not being able to afford the textbook. That is an awful burden for any student to have.”

Some of the students have faced even greater challenges than not fully learning everything there is to learn in their class.

The survey found Tech students are struggling to pay for their textbooks in addition to the known expenses of pursuing higher education, he said. SGA and the library have formulated two different approaches to combat this problem with a similar ultimate goal of stopping the skyrocketing prices of textbook.

SGA is specifically interested in combating the increased prices of textbooks by working on legislation to abolish the taxes placed on textbooks. The library is more focused on establishing more access to open textbooks.

“Open textbooks and open educational resources are teaching materials that are free but are also under creative commons licensees which are copyright licenses that allow them to be shared legally, to be adapted, remixed, and things like that,” Thomas said. “It’s a little different than things that are paid for by the library and things that are on the open web that may have restricted copy right and so it is meant to be different institutions can use them.”

Several different institutions around the state are working to implement similar plans. The model one is called “Open Stacks” and belongs to Rice University, Getz said.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 The La Niña that formed in early November 2017, is largely responsible for the current drought conditions including the new top dry period in Lubbock County, 99 days without measurable rainfall, according to The NWS Lubbock website.

La Niña is a cooling of the waters along the equator in the Eastern Pacific Ocean that impacts the amount of moisture in the air, usually leading to drought like conditions in some parts of the world, McQueen said.

“When the waters are cooler that means there will be less moisture and disturbances in the Eastern Pacific Ocean leading to upper level high pressure and drought over Mexico and the Southwest,” McQueen said.

La Niña is beginning to weaken with the arrival of spring and the rain experienced towards the end of March in Lubbock may be a good sign for the area.

The Climate Prediction Center forecasted drier than normal conditions in the spring but normal precipitation in the summer.

In Rice’s situation, the university prints on demand so students may have to pay if you want to print the textbook, but if you want to reference it online, it is free.

This process is being tried in different locations but has not really taken flight yet.

Part of the holdup is it has to be instituted by universities, not publishers. “(Open Textbooks) are fairly new, it’s kind of different from traditional textbooks publishing and it comes out of universities whereas traditional textbooks come out of traditional publishers so it’s just a really different model,” Thomas said. “It’s been around for a few years which is probably one reason we are hearing about it a lot more now.”

Tech students appear to be particularly interested in the idea of open textbooks, Thomas said.

“I honestly did not know what open textbooks were,” Nadine Marshall, a freshman clinical laboratory science major from McKinney, said.

“I definitely think (open textbooks) would be a really great resource for students to try to cut down the costs.”

Even though open text-

books are more prevalent when universities are creating their own books, some commercial publishers are making a small effort to move closer to the idea, Thomas said. The companies are making the textbooks open, but wrapping them in the price of the homework that must also be purchased for the course.

SGA is approaching the problem from a slightly different angle. They are focusing on what can be done through legislation to decrease the cost of textbooks, Getz said.

“The Texas legislatures will be in session next year and the issue of tax free textbooks is something that has been on the floor almost every session for years now,” Getz said. “It has never made its way out of committee. ” Even though both groups have slightly different approaches, they share an ultimate goal of helping the students of Tech to achieve their full potential and complete their degrees, he said.

“We have the resources and we have the power to direct an issue that is affecting so many students,” he said.

“We definitely want to start

working in any way possible to make this issue not as severe as it is in the moment.”

Building this program and aiding this initiative in taking off is not something that will come easily. In fact, it will require people all across the university to link forces to make the difference for students.

“A lot of building up a program like this is a lot of communicating and planning with everyone on campus who would be able to help get their sorts of things adopted in classes,” Thomas said. “A more immediate goal is, I think a lot of us would really like to see enrollment classes, like you’re really big auditorium classes students coming in from high school and maybe aren’t used to textbook costs and transferring or something like that to use open textbooks.”

SGA and the library alike are both working to help students save money, Getz said.

“I would say the ultimate goal is, in a broad stroke, in any way alleviate the burden of textbook costs on students,” he said.

“The La Niña is weakening and forecast modules favor a return to neutral conditions, what that means is that we have an opportunity to go back into a normal precipitation pattern,” McQueen said.

If the La Nina becomes neutral and the threat of drought is eased with rainfall the threat of wildfires will persist in the area, McQueen said.

“Even with normal rainfall it is normal to go through short term dry spells where we can get very rapidly curing grasses that are prone to burn again,” McQueen said.

The semi-arid climate of the Panhandle makes it hard to locate wildfires while they are small. On Feb. 27, 2011 the Panhandle experienced a fire that scarred an estimated 56,000 acres in a day, the basic influences of the fires were the weather conditions of the time, according to the NWS Lubbock website.

Before the wildfires in 2011, Lubbock county collected less than 3/4 of an inch of rain over a three-month period and is currently experiencing a similar period of measurable rainfall with less than 3/4 inch of rain fall over a four-month period, according to

the NWS Lubbock website.

“Pay attention to the weather conditions and listen to the local media,” Leathers said. “We are advising you on how outdoor activities and weather increases the chances of fires in your area.”

The weather patterns during the February 2011 firestorms created perfect environmental conditions for wildfires that are unpredictable in nature.

However, in November of last year the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launched a new satellite system, called GOES-East, that can detect firespots every minute to ease the task identifying wildfires, McQueen said.

“The GOES-East is a new generation of weather satellites that have enhanced capabilities to detect hot spots and wildfire starts on problematic days, we can obtain the imagery as often as every-one minute,” said McQueen.

With the additional capabilities to detect wildfires NWS Lubbock implemented adjustments to the Red Flag Index, a warning to citizens of ongoing or imminent critical fire weather, according to the NWS Lubbock website.

The Modified Red Flag Index

maintains the same criteria, that winds are 20 miles per hour, wind gust of 35 miles per hour with relative humidity 15% or lower but now accounts for the dryness of fuels and the likelihood of the fuels burning, McQueen said.

New technology has allowed for collaboration between the Texas A&M Forest Service and National Weather ServiceLubbock, to better identify and prevent wildfires.

“We can generate specific forecast based on terrain, fuels and any special criteria the firefighters on the scene provide, these are called spot-weather forecasts,” McQueen said Wildfires do not know boundaries and do not need large open spaces to threaten urban communities. According to the Texas A&M Forest Service a wildfire of 100 acres or less can be just as destructive as a large wildfire.

Panhandle citizens can protect themselves and their community from wildfires by implementing a plan and joining the Ready, Set, Go! program maintained by the International Association of Fire Chiefs, McMillan said.

The Ready, Set, Go! program was launched so fire departments in high risk wildfire areas can inform citizens how to best prepare themselves and their property from fire threats, according to wildlandfirersg.org.

“90 percent of fires that we are seeing this year were caused by roadside starts, this can be from worn tires, trailer chains, parking on dry grass and mechanical malfunctions, just to name a few,” Leathers said.

Citizens can help prevent wildfires caused by roadside starts by maintaining their vehicles, not parking on tall dry grass and by being aware of wildfire conditions.

Although drought and wildfire conditions might alleviate in the area by late spring there is always a chance in a semi-arid environment like the Panhandle, for fires and citizens must always be prepared.

“If you see a wildfire give a call to the law enforcement,” McMillan said. “And with smart phones now days they should be able to find your location and respond to the fire.”

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Engineer potentially finds life in space

By EMILIEE ENCIZO Staff Writer

Here on the Texas Tech campus, research is always being conducted on a variety of different topics. In the Mechanical Engineering Department, assistant mechanical engineering professor, Jay Kim, is working with NASA and professors from UC Berkeley and Georgia Tech on research covering Space Exploration Research.

Kim is working with Richard Mathies from UC Berkeley and Amanda Stockton from Georgia Tech on developing a sensor that could possibly detect a form of life on Saturn’s moon, Enceladus.

This research is highly

disciplinary and requires the expertise of people from multiple different areas.

There are meKIM chanical engineers, electrical engineers, aerospace engineers and many more working on the sensor.

“We must understand the chemistry and biology sides,” Kim, who has a Ph.D. in bioengineering, said. “We approach mechanical engineering and electrical engineering to find the proper sensor to measure the molecule we want to search for.

To analyze data, you must know computer science for

data analysis. Therefore, it is highly disciplinary research we are working on.”

The sensor will be sent into space and either orbit around Enceladus, or land directly on Saturn’s moon.

It will then begin a chemical analysis of the molecules present in the solar system that would indicate life if the target molecules — amino acids — are discovered.

Enceladus was chosen to be the point of research because it was discovered in past research to be a moon encased in an icy shell that holds a liquid ocean below, which could possibly sustain life.

With liquid water being the main source of life, the research team chose it as a

place to set the sensor and begin the chemical analysis.

“There are cracks in the ice, and the water jets up through these cracks like a stream and flies into space because there is no atmosphere,” Mathies, a chemistry professor at UC Berkeley with Ph.D. in Chemistry, said. “These have been seen and studied in some detail, but no one has ever done a chemical analysis.”

Kim’s involvement in the research started around 8 years ago, when he attended Berkeley but the research field has been around for over 20 years.

One thing that has sped up the process of all the developments that have been made would be an improvement in

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Opening for Rhett is Jillian Jacqueline and Brett Young, both rising country singers.

Rhett’s tour starts April 5

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Since then, Rhett has had eight singles top the charts. His song “Die a Happy Man,” released in his 2015 album Tangled Up,

Many Oklahoma schools were closed Monday, and districts announced plans to stay shut into Tuesday with teacher demonstrations expected to last a second day.

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signed legislation last week granting teachers pay raises of about $6,100, or 15 to 18 percent.

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technology and the grants the research team has received, including the one from NASA. This is when the development of the sensor really took off.

“This project came out of a project that had been worked on before,” Stockton, chemistry professor at Georgia Tech with a Ph.D. in Chemistry, said. “With the new excitement about the Enceladus plume, we put all of the good parts back together and left behind the bad parts of that instrument package and we made an awesome Enceladus organic analyzer.”

The process for developing the sensor has been split between the three professors and their teams. Each one

will be working in a different part of the sensor and will bring everything together when the time comes.

At Tech, Kim is working on the fluid processor while the other professors are developing other key components for the sensor, including a shell that will hold the fluid processor.

“Texas Tech’s in charge of developing the microchip, that is our portion of the multidisciplinary work,” Kim said. “So, Georgia Tech developed the detection system so then after individual pieces are done, the space science lab is going to merge everything together. You can’t do awesome work without a team.” @DailyToreador

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David Hogg too thin-skinned to handle criticism

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avid Hogg, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student, made the news on Valentine’s Day when he agreed to an interview with Laura Ingraham of Fox News about the massacre of his classmates.

Ironically, Ingraham is the subject of Hogg’s latest

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round of attacks.

Since the school shooting, Hogg has been on a tear attacking gun owners, politicians, the NRA and anyone else that doesn’t agree with his radical message. Watching Hogg speak, he is very tactful and careful about who he attacks.

He often switches roles from the traumatized teenager to the political activist

out for blood. He attacked Florida Senator Marco Rubio saying the politician is trading students’ lives for donations, according to a National Review article.

Hogg has done all this despite skepticism and numerous accusations of lying about who he really is, where he was the day of the shooting and other logistics that factor into his message and the events the day of the shooting.

This past week, Ingraham took to Twitter to take a stab at the young politician-in-the-making, pointing out colleges that Hogg was not accepted

vertisement boycott of Ingraham’s show on Fox and boasted in an interview with CNN that advertisers were fleeing her show.

Of course they are, but only because they want to keep selling their products.

These companies and organizations couldn’t care less about Hogg or his message.

All they care about is how they look in the public spotlight and how much of their product they are selling.

I really could not care less about who Hogg is or where he came from, or whether he is playing the part of traumatized teenager or vicious activist.

He is just another radical that wants to rob the American people of their constitutional rights. It is quite obvious that he will pander to anyone that will listen and say anything to get attention, regardless of how accurate it is.

I do not care for him or his message, but I conclude with this advice: take the criticism and go with it. Being in the public spotlight, you’re going to be attacked by people you don’t agree with, and it’s their right to do so. Hogg is just another example of this.

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hether it be outdated methods of teaching, inadequate funding being funneled in for extra programs such as counseling and special needs services or low teacher pay and low volume of teaching staff, there are clear causes for the failure of the public-school system.

That is not to say that public schools aren’t positive or necessary entities.

They absolutely are and provide access to education that is affordable for nearly all children. While educators are working with what they have, it is still incredibly trying to attempt to teach a lot of students without adequate pay or resources.

The system fails some groups of students more than others. Many behavioral problems that are cause for in-school or out-of-school suspensions can be attributed to factors such as lack of special needs services, misunderstanding of a history of abuse, poverty or neglect.

These students would benefit from additional services that provide them with

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assistance to cope with these hardships. Instead of getting the help they need, however, these students are criminalized. This leads to what is known as the “school-toprison pipeline.”

The school-to-prison pipeline is defined by the ACLU as the “disturbing national trend wherein children are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems,” according to the organization’s website.

While the aforementioned factors are causes for the rising trend, there are also other factors that need to be considered if we really want to get to the bottom of this issue.

Race is a huge factor. The 2017 Brown Center Report (BCR) on American Education outlines, along with many other things, out-ofschool suspensions across the country. Black students are cited as being three to four times as likely to receive

these forms of exclusionary punishments, according to the report.

This is not because black students are innately more likely to be disruptive to their classmates than their white or Hispanic counterparts, but rather because they are policed and surveilled more closely and held to higher standards of what is considered not disruptive. Minor infractions of school rules are criminalized for these students.

Treating these children this way is toxic. It causes a backslide of worse behavior that continues spiraling from there.

The exclusionary form of punishment is often given in a small isolated room without constructive assignments or adequate supervision and, in turn, these students begin to fall behind on their daily classwork.

This causes their grasp on main concepts to begin slipping and can result in their failure on tests when they return to their regular classrooms.

Missing class is even

worse for these students.

They need help. They need guidance in finding constructive behaviors that will help them become more productive and focused students.

It’s totally possible for all students, but not with a zerotolerance policy in place.

All of these factors go into making students feel small and worthless. If they already have issues with authority, isolating them agitates the problem and reinforces the idea that they’re being treated unfairly. With no access to proper assistance or resources, students begin to think they just aren’t good at school. In reality it’s the administration’s fault for pulling them out of class for a minor infraction.

When students are labeled as delinquents at such a young age, they begin to believe that is an innate, unchangeable attribute. They get involved with real criminal behavior as they get older and are funneled directly into prisons.

Behavior that is disruptive shouldn’t be excused. But the go-to solution shouldn’t be to exclude the student

from their peers and cause them to fall further behind in their classes.

By decriminalizing disruptive behavior, especially for students of color who are disproportionately affected by the school-to-prison pipeline, we can center schools around education rather than treating them like factories that produce perfect citizens.

Ignoring the fact that teachers are grossly underpaid (and unbelievably overworked) and there is a lack of additional help for students is not a solution.

Schools should be centered around education. All students should feel like they have a right to learn, even those who are disruptive.

Exclusionary punishments convey that certain students are not worthy of an adequate education. That isn’t fair to anyone.

Reexamining public school funding, starting with our home state, is the obvious solution in bettering the way we tackle this frustrating trend. @DailyToreador

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King’s assassination eve from 50 years ago speech to be read in Boston BOSTON (AP) — Martin Luther King Jr.’s last speech before his assassination 50 years ago this week will be read out aloud in Boston.

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to. This was no doubt an example of mudslinging as it is called in political science. Nonetheless, if you’re going to be in the public spotlight you’re going to have critics and people out to attack you. That’s just the way it is.

Instead of going on CNN to cry about it and call Ingraham a bully, Hogg should have just let it roll off of his back and go on with his business. After all, neither Rubio nor NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch went on television after Hogg’s vicious attacks on them to whine or complain.

Hogg called for an ad-

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Harpenau has made 10 appearances out of the bullpen this season. He has a 1.99 ERA over 22.2 innings pitched, striking out 21 batters and holding opponents to a .149 batting average.

In their 4-1 game two win over the Mountaineers on Friday, March 30, the Red Raiders got another substantial three-inning contribution from a reliever.

Junior right-hander Ryan Shetter entered the game in the top of the seventh inning, recording the final nine outs for the Red Raiders. He gave up no runs on one hit, no walks and four strikeouts.

It was the first save of the

season for Shetter, who has recently made the transition from the starting rotation to the bullpen.

Kilian started in game two for Tech, throwing a career high six innings and giving up only one run on two hits and four strikeouts. It was Kilian’s second start of the season after moving from the bullpen to the starting rotation.

Tadlock’s confidence in the back end of the bullpen made his decision to move Kilian into the starting rotation an easier one.

“I don’t know if he’s stepped up other than we gave him the ball at the start of the game,” Tadlock said. “He’s always been a guy that we kind of knew what we were getting when we gave it

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SPORTS to him. Really felt like we had plenty pieces in the back end of the bullpen to allow him to start and develop as a starter.”

After game-three starter McMillon got into trouble in the fifth inning, giving up three runs and the lead, the Red Raiders turned t o

t h e i r bullpen the rest of the w a y, g e t ting a solid four innings out of the unit.

Senior left-

hander Dylan Dusek entered the game to start the top of the sixth. He pitched 2.1 innings giving up no runs and striking out three while allowing only two baserunners.

Dusek earned the win after the Tech offense exploded for four runs in the bottom of the sixth.

It was Dusek’s second win of the season. He has struck out 19 batters over 13.1 innings pitched while holding opponents to a .188 batting average.

“I thought the two and a third he threw were huge. I rea l l y did. He kind of neu-

Page 5 Tuesday, April 3, 2018 tralized them there,” Tadlock said on Dusek’s outing. “On the last hitter he punched out I thought it was everything he had, on the full count pitch you could tell he was kind of laboring. Was really proud of him to execute that pitch.”

With Tech holding onto an 8-5 lead in the top of the ninth, the Mountaineers threatened with the bases loaded and only one out.

Harpenau entered the game, replacing freshman right-hander Kurt Wilson, who retired only one hitter while giving up one hit and walking two, with the tying run on first base and only one out.

Harpenau only needed five pitches to force West Virginia catcher junior Ivan Gonzalez to bounce into a 6-4-3 double play to end the

game and earn Harpenau his first save of the season.

Senior infielder Michael Davis said it’s been great to see the bullpen develop into solid pitchers instead of guys who can simply throw hard.

“That’s really how our bullpens been. A lot of these guys have kind of grown up a little bit,” Davis said. “Watch them go out there and they can throw the ball really hard, but they’re all becoming pitchers, so it’s awesome to see.” @ConnellyBockDT

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Sophomore right-handed pitcher John McMillon pitches during the last game of Tech’s three-game series against West Virginia at on Saturday, March 31, 2018, at Dan Law Field.

Tech’s bullpen was a strong factor in the series win.

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Chris Beard’s contract An uncertain future looms for college hoops extension now in effect Chris Beard’s new contract as the Texas Tech men’s basketball coach is now in effect. The contract keeps Beard with the Red Raiders through the end of the 2024 season.

In only his second season with the Red Raiders, Beard led his team to a secondplace finish in the Big 12 Conference, a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament and to an Elite Eight appearance.

Beard, Tech Director of Athletics Kirby Hocutt and Tech President Lawrence Schovanec signed the extension on March 5, just before the Red Raiders began play in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship tournament.

The base salary for each season of Beard’s new contract is $300,000, with additional revenue for outside athletics related income, according to the contract.

For the 2018-19 season, Beard will earn a salary of $2.8 million, and that will increase by $100,000 each season for the remaining five seasons.

One of the main stipulations in the contract is that if Tech earns a spot and

participates in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament three times during the six-year contract, Beard will automatically stay with Tech for the 2024-25 season, according to the contract.

Several supplemental compensations are listed in Beard’s new contract starting at the end of the 2018-19 season, including how the Red Raiders do in regular season conference play, the conference tournament, NCAA tournament and final rankings, according to the contract. If Beard wins a conference or national coach of the year award, he will also receive bonuses for that, however he will only be paid for winning one of each per season.

Beard also has the ability to earn additional bonuses for the team GPA and academic performance rating.

Each year, according to the contract, Beard’s supplemental compensation cannot exceed $500,000.

Though now in effect, the stipulations and bonuses for the new contract do not begin until the 2018-19 season. @McKenziMorrisDT

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — For the past three weeks, it’s been all about buzzerbeaters, bracket-busters and basketball — a much-needed reminder about just how beautiful this game can be.

For the next six months, it will be all about ugliness and uncertainty, while college basketball wrestles with the changes it must make to keep the sport alive.

The 2017-18 campaign could very well be remembered as the season that ridded the upper echelon of college hoops of any last whiffs of the notion that it is all about amateurs, “student-athletes” and playing for nothing more than a scholarship and pride.

An FBI investigation that resulted in the September arrests of 10 agents, coaches and businessmen with basketball ties did what the NCAA never really could — laid bare the inner-workings of a shady, money-grubbing business that’s been teetering on the edge of the rulebook, and the law, for decades.

“The state of the game, there’s no doubt, there’s some question marks now,” Kansas State coach Bruce Weber said.

Between the FBI probe and other media reports, violations have been alleged at 28 schools, ranging from businessmen taking recruits’ parents out to lunch to $100,000 payoffs to get them to sign with certain programs; 17 of those teams were in the March Madness bracket. A panel led by Condoleezza Rice is examining the problems and is expected to release a report, and its recommendations, on April 25.

The president of the NCAA has promised action , but said he would not support anything truly gamechanging — as in, rules that would fundamentally alter the amateur status of the “student-athletes” whose efforts are the underpinnings of the $1.1 billion the NCAA earned in 2017. The lion’s share of that comes from the men’s basketball tournament that brought Villanova and Michigan to Monday night’s final.

More significant change might have to come from the NBA, which is considering ending the “one and done” rule that calls for players to either be 19 or complete at least one year in college before becoming eligible for the draft.

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“Any time there’s money involved, isn’t there always corruption?” West Virginia coach Bob Huggins asked, rhetorically. “We’ll have to wait and see how widespread it is. If that’s it, and you see it’s only four (coaches) who were guilty, that’s pretty good.”

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By NOAH MICIOTTO Staff Writer

The Texas Tech softball team has had an explosive season offensively, and a strong part of that explosiveness has been the batting contributions of redshirt freshman Michaela Cochran.

The Red Raider offense is largely dependent on the top half of the lineup to get things moving during games. One of the most essential batters in the top half of the lineup is Cochran.

Cochran frequents the two-hole spot in the lineup.

The two-hole hitter is traditionally someone who has excellent bat control along with the skills necessary to effectively place a bunt or hit-and-run. Another important quality the second batter in the lineup must possess is the ability to get on base, something Cochran does very well.

Through 36 games played, Cochran claims a respective batting average of .352 along with an onbase-percentage of .373, according to Tech Athletics. Though her physical abilities on the field are of the most importance, it is her mental aspect of the game that has helped Cochran perform the way she has.

“If you’re in the box a headcase, you definitely won’t perform physically,” Cochran said. “I’m really comfortable and it’s just the preparation that we do before we go into the games that allows me to do what I do. I pick one side of the plate and then I pick my pitch to hit, I’ll pick a zone to hit and I’ll focus on that.”

“That’s my go to [approach] unless we’re getting worked inside, or the pitcher isn’t really pitching to my strength,” Cochran said. “Most of the time they usually don’t, so it changes from pitcher to pitcher.”

Cochran’s approach at the plate has proven to be successful thus far as she has six doubles and ten RBIs on the season, according to Tech Athletics.

Cochran keeps a cool and composed presence in the batter’s box that helps her have the success she does.

Cochran’s strength is when she has a bat in her hands.

“I think Michaela is just so steady, she doesn’t really ride the emotional train,” Tech head coach Adrian Gregory said.

“She’s very confident in how she plays the game and she’s very proud in making sure she does her role and she does it well. You can look back at games we’ve won, and she has been on base multiple times.”

Cochran’s consistency is valued not only by her coach but by her teammates as well.

“She’s awesome, we were looking back at the number of hits she has, and it is incredible,” junior infielder Kiana Workman said. “I think she really sets the table for everyone in the lineup. It’s almost a no brainer when she’s up to bat whether or not she’s going to get on, that’s really awesome to have that to rely on in the top of the lineup.”

Cochran also carries a big responsibility on the defensive side of the ball. Cochran locks down center field with a fielding percentage of .962, according to Tech Athletics. Cochran, being a center fielder, is required to have substantial leadership skills.

Traditionally the center fielder is the “commander” of the outfield due to the positioning and ability to see the ball travel off the bat in ways the other defenders can’t.

Cochran is from Ennis, Texas, and is a graduate of Ennis High School. During her high school career Cochran played shortstop and was regarded as the No. 82 infield prospect by MaxPreps.com, according to Tech Athletics. However, Cochran got most of her experience playing in the outfield on her summer ball team.

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Redshirt freshman center-fielder Michaela Cochran makes a run at first base after making contact with a pitch against Oklahoma State on Friday, March 30, 2018 at Rocky Johnson Field. The Red Raiders are hosting their Big 12 Conference play home opener.

“On my select team I played outfield. It was really like a transition from outfield to infield then back to outfield. Before I came here I was playing in the outfield, so it really wasn’t that hard of a transition,” Cochran said.

The 2018 season is Cochran’s first time stepping on the field for Tech. In Cochran’s first year as a Red Raider she was redshirted due to a knee injury. Cochran’s injury forced her to sit out all last season; however, she gained a lot of experience from watching last year’s squad and that has assist-

ed her in helping create the team the Red Raiders have fielded this season.

“We really enjoy being around each other. This year we actually enjoy the time we spend together, which is literally all the time,” Cochran said. “I feel like that is a great foundation because you don’t dread coming to practice and you want to come and be with your friends and get better at what you do.”

Cochran is an important factor for the Red Raiders and she has a mindset for herself and her team moving along with conference play.

“I think we’re trying to remember that no matter where we go we have to play our game,” Cochran said. “It doesn’t matter what stadium we’re at, we can’t let fans and the upbeat tempo take us out of our element.”

Although this is only Cochran’s first season getting playing time, her teammates value her and the younger players see her as a leader. Cochran has learned some of her leadership skills from her team captain, junior Jessica Hartwell.

“She [Hartwell] shows even when she’s not doing well that she’s still confident in what she does,” Cochran said. “It shows me that I need to learn to deal with my failures a little bit better like she does. She can go 0-for in a game but she’s still out there leading the team defensively.”

Overall, Cochran is one of the young star players for the Red Raiders. She is revered by her teammates and coaching staff and she will continue to be depended on in her career at Texas Tech.

“I think she’s done a phenomenal job. I’m so excited that she’s a freshman and I think the future is very bright.” Gregory said. @NoahMiciotto_DT

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Ogunbowale encore! Final Four hero lifts Notre Dame to title COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Arike Ogunbowale hit the shot of her life — again.

Ogunbowale floated in a 3-pointer from the corner with 0.1 seconds left, lifting Notre Dame to its second women’s basketball title with a thrilling 61-58 comeback victory over Mississippi State in the NCAA championship game on Sunday night.

It was the second straight game that the junior guard hit a shot in the final second to carry the Irish. Her jumper with one second remaining in overtime knocked off previously unbeaten UConn in the semifinals Friday.

With this game tied, Ogunbowale took the inbounds pass from Jackie Young, dribbled twice toward the corner and, closely guarded, lofted home

an off-balance 3 from in front of the Notre Dame bench, nearly the same angle as her shot that beat the Huskies.

“It just felt right,” said Ogunbowale, who scored 16 of her 18 points in the second half. “I practice lategame all the time. I just ran to Jackie and said, ‘Throw it to me, throw it to me.’”

Ogunbowale earned most outstanding player honors for the tournament and also received a congratulatory tweet from Kobe Bryant, who took in the semifinal win over UConn.

All the Irish players could celebrate after pulling off the biggest comeback in title game history. They rallied from a 15-point deficit in the third quarter and were down five in the final 1:58.

Marina Mabrey hit a 3-pointer from the wing and Young had a

shot in the lane to tie it.

The title came 17 years to the day after Notre Dame (353) won its only other championship in 2001 on Easter.

“It’s Easter Sunday, and all the Catholics were praying for us,” said coach Muffet McGraw, who was wearing floral shoes in honor of the holiday.

When the final buzzer sounded, a wild celebration started with the Irish faithful who were part of the sellout crowd. McGraw’s team had fallen short four times in seven years in the title game, losing in 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015. Many of the Notre Dame alums who were on teams that had fallen just short of winning a title were there to enjoy it, including Natalie Achonwa, Natalie Novosel and Becca Bruszewki.

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