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Heavy rains to hit Southeast Texas GALVESTON (AP) — Galveston County officials are recommending people on the low-lying Bolivar Peninsula leave in anticipation of high water and heavy rains from a storm brewing in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast.

County Judge Mark Henry issued a voluntary evacuation Monday as an alert that emergency responders may not be able to reach people if forecasts are correct that the sliver of land across from Galveston in Southeast Texas could get up to a foot of rain. The storm is expected to hit sometime Tuesday, with an expected landfall farther down the Texas coast.

A ferry to Galveston is the most common access to the peninsula, but service could be halted by winds and high tide.

Most structures on Bolivar were wiped out in Hurricane Ike in 2008.

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Gov. Abbott signs new $3.8B tax cut package AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law $3.8 billion in tax cuts for businesses and, potentially, for homeowners.

The Republican made slashing taxes a top priority of his first legislative session as governor, and headed to an Austin technology firm for Monday’s signing ceremony.

Approved by the Republicancontrolled Legislature, the new laws reduce business taxes by 25 percent.

They also create a November ballot initiative, asking voters to approve tax reductions for homeowners.

If that passes, property taxes will fall about $120 annually for the average homeowner. But, in many areas, that could be swallowed up by fast-rising home appraisals.

Supreme Court rejects abortion law appeal WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from North Carolina to revive a requirement that abortion providers show and describe an ultrasound to a pregnant woman before she has an abortion.

The justices left in place an appeals court decision that said the 2011 North Carolina law was “ideological in intent” and violated doctors’ free-speech rights.

The measure was championed by conservative Republicans in the state legislature, who overrode a veto from the thenDemocratic governor to approve the law.

The North Carolina law would have required abortion providers to display and describe the ultrasound even if the woman refused to look and listen — a mandate that the court found particularly troublesome. The law did not include any exception for cases of rape, incest or severe fetal anomalies.

A second appeals court ruling involving a Texas law imposing restrictions on abortion providers also is expected to make its way to the Supreme Court soon.

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TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY System Chancellor Robert Duncan met with media outlets in his office in the Administration Building on Friday. Duncan discussed several outcomes from the 84th Texas Legislature in relation to higher education, including Texas House Bill 100, the Hazlewood Legacy Act and campus carry.

Texas Tech University System Chancellor Robert Duncan met with media outlets Friday to discuss the 84th Texas legislative session. Duncan discussed Texas House Bill 100, the Hazlewood Legacy Act, the “Campus Carry” law and its implications for Tech students.

“This was a great session for our education,” Duncan said, starting off the meeting. “I think everyone in higher education would call this a very good session.”

During the legislative session, legislation was passed regarding higher education financing. Across various Texas higher education institutions, about $1.2 billion was allotted to fund operations to address the growth Texas has seen in its higher education system, Duncan said.

Texas had adopted the plan “Closing the Gaps,” which is designed to increase the number of students in higher education and to put more first-generation students in Texas universities, Duncan said. Since its inception, it has been a huge success, necessitating the need for campus growth.

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Tech partners with Lubbock ISD for STEM contest

By MICHAEL CANTU Staff Writer

Partnering up with Lubbock ISD for the second time, the Texas Tech Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Center for Outreach, Research and Education put together a competition for students from all ten middle schools in Lubbock.

The competition, which took place in the Byron Martin Advanced Technology Center, was a one-week program where students were tasked with designing a Rube Goldberg machine, a complex machine designed to accomplish a simple task named after a Pulitzer Prize winner, Jessica Spott, senior program director for STEM-CORE, said.

The simple task was to erase a small dry-erase board with the only requirements for the machines being they had to fit on an 8-by-8-foot platform, and could not go higher than 5 feet.

“It’s been really fun and interesting to see how each school has designed something totally different,” Spott said, “and has a totally different approach for solving the problem or completing

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THE TEXAS TECH Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Center for Outreach, Research and Education, along with the Lubbock Independent School District, hosted the 2015 Middle School STEM Challenge. The challenge pits ten LISD middle schools against each other in a weeklong competition to design and build machines.

the task.”

Choosing four students from each middle school, the 10 six-member

teams were comprised of students, a faculty member from their school and a university student, she said.

In recruiting team members, each teacher picks their students based on their own inclinations.

Through this competition the students are confronted with team work, problem solving skills and creativity in figuring out how to work with limited supplies, Michael Sizemore, K-12 Science coordinator for LISD, said.

Through this competition, students can find out if their interests do lie in a STEM career field, he said.

In noticing the lack of summer programs for middle school-aged children, STEM-CORE felt the need to partner up with LISD, Spott said.

Organizers wanted to make it possible to offer a type of summer camp that would be beneficial to children that age, Spott said.

“If they’re not involved in STEM at that point, then we kind of lose them by the time they get to high school,” she said. “That’s kind of the idea behind this — to take something that would hopefully be fun and exciting for middle school students.”

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Engineering lab receives $1.6 million gift Tech leisure pool nationally recognized Engineering company CB&I has given Texas Tech a $1.6 million gift for its additive manufacturing laboratory.

The lab, now known as the CB&I Advanced Prototyping and Manufacturing Laboratory, will have upgraded equipment and technology to help students better understand engineering principles, according to a Tech news release.

“Texas Tech’s engineering program has a strong track record of preparing its students for success,” Philip K. Asherman, CB&I’s president and chief executive officer, said in the release. “Through this partnership, we are helping build a learning environment that will foster engineering innovation and produce the future leaders of our industry.”

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The university appreciates the company’s commitment to the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering, Tech President M. Duane Nellis said in the release.

Students will have access to a variety of technology, according to the release, like 3-D printing.

“This gift from CB&I will help the mechanical engineering department train the manufacturing engineers and innovative leaders of the future,” Al Sacco Jr., dean of the engineering college, said in the release. “It marks the beginning of a new phase in an existing fruitful partnership with CB&I, a company that has been hiring our students for many years.” ➤➤@DailyToreador

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College Rank has recognized the Texas Tech Student Leisure Pool as the No. 4 university pool in the nation.

The pool, located outside the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center, earned the university the highest ranking of any school in the Big 12 Conference and the state, according to a Tech news release.

“Without the direct input of the Texas Tech student body, our recreational facilities would not be where they are today,” Peewee Roberson, managing director of Recreational Sports, said in the release. “In the last 40 years, Texas Tech Recreational Sports has put in a strong effort to provide our students

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The Student Leisure Pool has been nationally recognized twice this year, according to the release.

Tech was ranked No. 15 in the nation for best extras on campus, according to the release, and received the highest ranking in Texas.

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Tech competes for national award in community engagement Students encouraged to take ‘It’s On Us’ pledge Staff Writer

Earlier this month, The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities announced that Texas Tech is the regional winner of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award.

As a regional winner, Tech will be competing for the C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award on Sept. 30 alongside three other universities: University of Minnesota, University of New Hampshire and San Jose State University.

Tech’s East Lubbock Neighborhood project was submitted for the Kellogg and Magrath awards.

The ELPN project, led by the College of Education, is a collaboration between several colleges in the university and more than 75 community partners and aims to revitalize East Lubbock, an area plagued by poor school performance, poor health, crime, drugs, inadequate housing, high teen pregnancy rates and the highest rate of child abuse

in the state, according to a Tech news release.

“The big idea is that the university is a large collection of expertise in many different disciplines,” College of Education Dean Scott Ridley said.

“So, if we can find a way to take those areas of expertise and apply those to the communities (that are suffering), it may be beneficial both to the university and to the communities.”

Although other universities have similar projects in place, the level of scale of ELPN is much larger in comparison, which is what makes it unique, Ridley said.

The College of Human Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education, College of Visual and Performing Arts, School of Nursing, Division of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement and other divisions within Tech have collectively collaborated on this projected, Ridley said, to make an impact within the East Lubbock community.

“So, there’s probably not another project in the United States where the university is involved with the

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level of scale that Texas Tech is involved,” he said.

The schools in East Lubbock have struggled for a long time, Ridley said. In schools such as those, the curriculum narrows, and the focus becomes increasingly on preparing the students to pass the tests. The enrichment that students experience in affluent schools is thus lost.

The ELPN after-school programs have helped revitalize the school curriculum and bring back the enrichment, he said. The programs offered are similar to those one might see in some of the most affluent schools.

“We certainly didn’t do this for awards,” Ridley said. “I am proud of Texas Tech because we’re applying what we know to make things better.”

ELPN project is also looking to transform and establish Estacado High School in East Lubbock as an early-college high school, Ridley said.

Students at Estacado will then be able to earn college credit while still in high school.

Statistical data shows students who come from communities of poverty are more likely to complete col-

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On Friday morning, the students’ machines were judged by a group of people from the Tech community, LISD and people from private industries throughout the area, Spott said.

Given a rubric, the judges were to pick which mechanism showed the most creativity and reliability, and the winner of the would be given a trophy named the Dwyer PHOTO BY MOLLIE ANDREWS/The Daily Toreador Cup along with individual plaques.

Because of the partnerships be- THE TEXAS TECH Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Center for Outreach, Research and Education and the Lubbock Indetween the two organizations along pendent School District joined to host the 2015 Middle School STEM with grant money, all of the activiChallenge. The challenge pits ten LISD middle schools against each ties were free to the students, she other in a weeklong competition to design and build machines inspired said. It is also through scholarships by Rube Goldberg, the Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist. that all of the university students It was also through the prior its signature events. were being paid.

But the main objective is to “They are funded by two grants year’s success that both organizathat are funded by the NSF. Nation- tions can continue with challenges show attending any college or major al Science Foundation is funding such as these, he said. It is also university is not out of reach for the the stipends for both the NOYCE through competitions like this students, Spott said. With some of scholars and the other students,” that those competing will take a the children coming from low socioJerry Dwyer, professor of math and serious interest in anything related economic families, STEM-CORE is showing students they can improve STEM-CORE director, said. “And to STEM. “I think it is also important to their future by taking events like the Halliburton Foundation is also see that Texas Tech professors and these seriously. funding some of this.”

“A lot of time the thought of It is through the STEM-CORE faculty are welcoming and willing program that the combination of to work with them,” Dwyer said. going to college is so far out of their engineering, outreach and exposure “It’s also to show that both to the normal everyday life, that when to teachers is possible, Dwyer said. student workers and to the middle they come here and they’re able to meet undergraduate students In this collaboration between LISD school kids.”

With some of the assistance that are real Tech students, they’re and STEM-CORE, the interest of the various students can be caught. coming from surrounding com- able to see ‘OK this is normal, this “They pay for what you see here munity colleges, Dwyer said he is cool, this is fun,’” she said. “And today,” Sizemore said. “They feed hopes this program can sway them hopefully it kind of inspires them to our kids, and the teachers who to join the Tech community. As reach beyond what they originally director, he considers the thought might be possible.” volunteer. We could notFOR doRELEASE this the JUNE 13, 2015 STEM-CORE Challenge one of ➤➤@MichaelCantuDT without Texas Tech University.”

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lege if they experience post-secondary education while still in high school, Ridley said. Taking college level classes while in high school makes the students realize they, too, are capable of passing college classes.

Pastor Bill Stubblefield, East Lubbock pastor and community activist, said he is happy with Tech’s initiative of an early college high school, which will foster the development of a successful high school student – one that is both college-prepared and college-ready.

“Now, right here, locally, they get a chance – a chance that they always wanted – and an opportunity that they always much needed,” Stubblefield said.

The ELPN project has also aided in the creation of jobs within the East Lubbock community, Stubblefield said, which is yet another example of the positive impact the ELPN project has had on the community.

The ELPN project employs people from the East Lubbock community to empower people within the community, he said.

“I would encourage the readers of

(The Daily Toreador) to find out more about this by visiting the ELPN website,” Stubblefield said. “As long as we have an interest in the program, the possibility for funding to be continued is greatly enhanced.”

Earlier this year, Tech’s Office of Outreach and Engagement sent out a call for proposals to faculty campuswide, Birgit Green, director of Engaged Research and Partnerships at Tech, said.

This was the first year that a call for proposals was made, Green said, and they received four proposals. The ELPN project was then selected and submitted for the Kellogg and Magrath Awards, which recognize institutions for their community engagement.

“Since the Magrath Award emphasizes community collaborations and impact, the ELPN project stood out for its vast network of partners and the impact that is being made related to the East Lubbock community,” Green said.

Although Tech tried for the regional Kellogg Award last year, it did not win, she said. This year the

school made a strong case for a winning submission.

A project such as the ELPN, which actively seeks community involvement with emphasis on shared knowledge and responsibility, has a large impact on learning both inside the classroom and outside the classroom in the real world, Green said.

“For Texas Tech University to stand out among these many competitors is a true honor,” she said, “and we are very proud of the ELPN project.”

The regional winners will be recognized for their achievement Sept.

30 at the ESC conference at Pennsylvania State University. They will compete for the national Magrath Award at the same conference, where each university will present its project to the judges.

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Though overdue, the $1.2 billion for university growth will be key for keeping Texas education successful and nationally competitive, Duncan said.

For the Tech System, this will mean new infrastructure. Through House Bill 100, soon to be signed

by Governor Greg Abbott, Tech will receive about $250 million, Duncan said.

According to the bill, these funds will be used to construct various buildings on the Tech System campuses, including an additional Experimental Sciences building on the Lubbock campus, a new facility on the Odessa campus and several new health sciences buildings on the Health Sciences Center campuses in Lubbock, Amarillo and El Paso.

“The message that the State of Texas made this session is, to the rest of the nation, that Texas is in the business of education,” Duncan said. “We, unlike other states, like Arizona, Connecticut, Kansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, who are cutting education, the State of Texas saw fit to invest.”

Despite the accomplishments the legislative session saw regarding operations funding, Duncan said there were some disappointing moments in the session. The Hazlewood Legacy Act, passed in 2001, failed to be updated this session, bringing large costs to Texas

By MICHAEL CANTU Staff Writer

Beginning a new campaign in aiding sexual assault prevention in 2014, the White House launched the “It’s On Us” campaign in an effort to educate and engage more college students in taking a stance against sexual assault.

Partnering up with the Center for American Progress and more than 200 universities throughout the country, the campaign is meant to shift the way students think about sexual assault. It is through this that students can become more than a bystander, according to whitehouse.gov.

In its research, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that if there is any bystander intervention, there is more of a possibility for change in individuals and communities, according to the website. It is with that information that Texas Tech is committing itself to taking a stand against sexual assault.

“At some point we’re all bystanders when it comes to sexual violence and harassment and stalking on campuses,” Patricia Earl, unit coordinator and academic adviser for Women’s Studies, said. “Or at least knowing about them you can be categorized as a bystander.”

Pledging to “It’s On Us” encourages

students to find the courage to step up and say something, Earl said. Even though it does seem like a small step, it is going toward a much bigger movement than anybody will ever realize.

Taking an approach to spread the word and making it go a long way, Women’s Studies released a video filming students taking a video pledge, she said. By engaging Women’s Studies in the pledge, Earl said she hoped it would encourage more departments across campus to also partake.

Finding that the video pledges would have to be directed to make sure the students involved would send out the right message, she found herself playing director to the students.

Through this approach, all the students were able to give oral accounts of their reasoning behind taking the pledge without being shy.

“So I had to remind them that the message they’ve committed to and they do believe in,” she said, “you need to tell the other person behind this camera through this lens.”

Watching students transform themselves from an individual that was uncomfortable to talking about sexual assault to being able to give their story comfortably was the most comforting thing, Earl said. This gave her the hope that the students would use that energy derived from discomfort to be able to

step up against a perpetrator and be professor of history and associate dean a bystander who does something to of the Honors College, said. Therefore, prevent any sexual violence. she said she felt her college had a reWith “It’s On Us” there is an sponsibility to the students to educate additional push for a person in an them early and make sure the message opportunity to did get across. ask someone Providing if they are OK her students or need help, with the voshe said. Even cabulary and if butting into knowledge of an argument or the responsibila heated situaity of living in tion seems like co-ed residence it could be dihalls was a nesastrous, that cessity, Wong action could said. There was save someone a great need to from becoming give them the a victim. earliest interALIZA WONG “If we really vention posASSOCIATE DEAN are wanting to sible in order to make change, be positive that HONORS COLLEGE then we got to students knew take the heat if the meaning of someone thinks we’re butting in,” consent, and knew that any actions Earl said. “Because if we don’t butt they took had consequences that in, then the ultimate consequences could be good or bad. could be dire.”

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Moving away from home and family is a part of growing up, Wong said, and as in this growing there is a need to face issues that could pop up in the near future. Feeling the need for education that goes beyond academic, the Honors College also wants to educate students socially on living safely and happily with each other, she said.

The college also plans on reviving its efforts for the “It’s On Us” campaign, making sure all of its first year students are properly educated on sexual violence, Wong said. In the upcoming semester, the Honors College is starting a pilot program that would help students recognize vocabulary and give them tools to not only be able to prevent sexual assaults, but to realize that they too can fall victim to its far reaching hands.

“Our job is not necessarily to teach them how to think,” she said, “our job is to give them the language, the knowledge, the experience to begin to explore, to begin to communicate where they stand on these very important issues.”

Prior to campaigns such as this, Wong said she felt there was a general lack of knowledge in all people, and no one was talking about the issue correctly. Now with this campaign there is more of a serious tone that can be taken when talking about issues like sexual assault.

It is a responsibility that lies within

every individual, she said. If we want to stop sexual assault and violence, each individual must step up and talk about the issue and face the challenges that come along with it.

“We all have a responsibility to protect ourselves from sexual assault, to protect others from sexual assault,” Wong said. “It’s about all of us stepping up and talking about it. It’s about us stopping it when we see it happening, and it’s about us not accepting that rhetoric, not accepting that language.”

In today’s culture there are still individuals out there that knowingly make jokes and try to put others in uncomfortable positions regarding rape and sexual assault. It’s in those moments and people that change is needed, Earl said.

Most people have had those moments all of their lives and never thought there could be the potential to lead to violence and harassment, she said. It’s usually in a group setting that intervention is bypassed the most.

“It becomes hard for someone who feels like they’re the only one that is about to step up and say ‘hey this isn’t right,’ because of other pressure,” Earl said. “So we have a number of ways to look at the campaign as a reminder of what does bystander intervention even look like, and who it is that is participating as the bystander?” ➤➤@MichaelCantuDT

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TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY System Chancellor Robert Duncan met with media outlets in his office in the Administration building Friday.

Duncan discussed many of the outcomes from the 84th Texas Legislature in relation to higher education.

higher education.

The Hazlewood Legacy Act was originally passed to financially cover veterans and their children. Duncan said by allowing veteran Legacy students to be financially covered, a huge financial strain has been put on Texas higher education, much more than initially projected.

“It has now become a very significant cost driver in higher education. The numbers we were looking at this session were about $170 million across the state. For Texas Tech that means about $8 million a year that Legacy students cost the university,” Duncan said.

Texas lawmakers discussed different options for fixing the problem, Duncan said, but because of the complexity and emotional weight of the issue, the Texas House of Representatives opted not to make changes.

After discussing the Hazlewood Legacy Act, Duncan answered questions regarding Senate Bill 11, Texas’ new Campus Carry law.

“There is a lot of concern about this. I think generally higher ed., faculty and administrators oppose this type of legislation,” Duncan said. “In listening to the concerns that higher education had, and providing its flexibility, this is about as good as it can get.”

Prior to the new campus carry law, Texas law allowed licensed individuals to carry their firearms on campus, as long as it was outside campus buildings, Duncan said.

While some students and faculty members remain suspicious of the bill, it is not a “game changing bill,” and Duncan said the Tech administration will be able to

define areas where carrying a handgun would be restricted.

Duncan explained the need for these designations, noting family counseling, the Center for Addiction and Recovery, courtrooms and childcare centers are scattered throughout the campus. For guns rights advocates, Duncan said the legislation would prevent campuses from enforcing unreasonable “blanket sorts of prohibitions.”

By allowing universities to be flexible as to where the campus carry rule is enforced, Tech can also retain its competitive edge in competing for federal and corporate research, Duncan said. These research initiatives may have security restrictions that must be maintained, something the university was concerned about as the legislation was drafted.

The bill will take effect in 2016, and Tech is already in discussion regarding the rules and regulations, Duncan said.

In regards to the campus carry flexibility and the funding of higher education growth, Duncan was supportive of the Texas Legislature.

“The State of Texas has made a significant investment in higher education. We are telling the rest of the country ‘we want you here,’” Duncan said. “If you are a faculty member or a researcher and you are worried about your future, Texas had made a strong statement that we want you to be here.” ➤➤@DailyToreador

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Rachel Dolezal resigned as president of the NAACP’s Spokane chapter Monday amid a furor over racial identity that erupted when her parents came forward to say she has been posing as black for years when she is actually white.

The announcement, posted on the civil rights organization’s Facebook page, said the attention surrounding Dolezal has distracted from the group’s goals.

“In the eye of this current storm, I can see that a separa-

tion of family and organizational outcomes is in the best interest of the NAACP,” said Dolezal, a longtime figure in Spokane’s civil rights community who was elected to the NAACP post six months ago. “Please know I will never stop fighting for human rights.”

City officials, meanwhile, are investigating whether she lied about her ethnicity when she landed an appointment to Spokane’s police oversight board. On her application, she said her ethnic origins included white, black and American Indian.

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1:58 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for two outstanding Lubbock Police Department warrants and released pending the filing of criminal charges for possession of more than one driver’s license after a traffic stop in the 2500 block of 15th Street. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was released to the passenger at the owner’s request.

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Texas Tech senior defensive lineman Pete Robertson and senior offensive lineman Le’Raven Clark were named to Athlon Sports Preseason All-Big 12 First Team this past weekend.

Robertson finished last season with 12 sacks, which was the most in the Big 12 Conference, and added 14.5 tackles for loss, according to the Tech Athletics website.

Clark was a part of an offensive line that paved the way for a 1,000-

yard rusher and was named to the All-Big 12 First Team last season.

Senior running back DeAndre Washington and senior wide receiver Jakeem Grant were both named to the All-Big 12 Second Team, according to a Tech Athletics news release. As a kick returner, Grant was also named to the third team.

Washington ran for 1,103 yards on the ground, which was the most by a Red Raider since 1998, according to the website.

Also on the third team was senior defensive lineman Branden Jackson and senior place kicker Taylor Symmank.

Jackson record 44 tackles this past season, five of which were sacks.

Sophomore quarterback Patrick Mahomes II, junior wide receiver Devin Lauderdale, senior offensive lineman Jared Kaster and senior offensive lineman Alfredo Morales were named to the All-Big 12 fourth

team for Tech on the offensive side of ball.

Sophomore defensive back Nigel Bethel II and senior linebacker Micah Awe were two of the final six players named to the fourth team.

With the Red Raiders’ 13 selections, they tied with Oklahoma for the third-most selections, according to the Athlon Sports website.

Baylor led the conference with 15 players. ➤➤@JeremyK_DT

Gutierrez named to Gold Glove Team On Sunday afternoon, Texas Tech junior first baseman Eric Gutierrez was announced as the best defensive first baseman across in the nation in college baseball as he was named to the Rawlings Gold Glove Team, according to the American Baseball Coaches Association.

Gutierrez becomes the second player in school history to be a named a Gold Glove winner, as Kelby Tomlinson was the first in 2011, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

The junior first baseman was the only player from the Big 12 Conference to be selected to the Gold Glove Team,

making Tech the only school in the conference to have multiple players selected all-time, according to the Big 12 website.

In more than 600 chances at making a defensive play, Gutierrez had only five errors, resulting in a .992 fielding percentage.

In addition to his work in the field,

Gutierrez hit .315 at the plate with four home runs and team-high 46 RBIs. He had a career-high .444 on-base percentage this season, according to the release.

Gutierrez was also named to the All-Big 12 First Team after the regular season. ➤➤@JeremyK_DT

Armstrong riding Texas Tech golfer leg of Colorado race plays in Palmer Cup GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.

(AP) — Lance Armstrong is joining cyclists on the second leg of the 30th annual Ride the Rockies in western Colorado.

Armstrong tweeted that Monday’s route from Grand Junction to Hotchkiss over Grand Mesa looked “epic.” He

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Armstrong, who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles over doping, is a part-time resident of Aspen, Colorado. On Sunday he participated in Aspen’s GrandFondo to raise money for the organization hosting the city’s stage of the USA Pro Challenge.

Texas Tech senior golfer Clement Sordet won his individual matchup in the final round of the Palmer Cup on Sunday at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Illinois.

Playing for the European team, Sordet defeated opponent Anders Albertson, but Team USA won the match 18-12, according to a Golf Coaches Association of America news release.

Sordet, who is originally from Charbonnières, France, made the All-Big 12 Championship team in

each of the last two seasons and was a finalist for the Ben Hogan Award for the 2014-2015 season, according to the Tech Athletics website, leading the Red Raiders to a runner-up finish at the Big 12 Championships.

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US woman attempting to row across Pacific Ocean rescued off Japanese coast TOKYO (AP) — A steering system failure, bad weather and a sense that “things weren’t going right” has ended an American woman’s attempt to cross the Pacific by rowboat.

“The past eight days have been interesting and we knew we were taking a chance with the weather and late season, concerned more about the weather upon arrival in California in the fall,” Sonya Baumstein’s expedition support team said in a statement early Monday.

The 30-year-old Baumstein departed from Choshi, Japan, one week ago, heading for San Francisco, California, in hopes of becoming the first woman to row solo across the Pacific.

She spent several days after her departure relatively close to shore as she waited for her sea sickness to subside, but then made progress and was able to get into the Kuroshio current that crosses the Pacific west to east as planned.

But Baumstein was rescued off the Japanese coast on Saturday after sending out a distress signal when about 250 kilometers (155 miles) offshore. At the time, she was approaching the limits of the Japanese Coast Guard’s normal range and decided with her team that it would be irresponsible to continue and potentially put rescuers’ lives at risk, the team said in a statement.

A freighter traveling nearby

rescued her and a few hours later a Coast Guard vessel in the area picked her up and helped tow her boat back to shore.

“Sonya and some team members felt that things weren’t going right. While we couldn’t put our finger on it, something felt wrong. Our expedition experience has taught us that when that feeling doesn’t go away, you pay attention,” it said.

Baumstein was in the process of re-entering Japan on Monday morning. She said earlier that any costs for a rescue were to be covered by insurance.

Baumstein was hoping to finish the 6,000-mile (9,600-kilometer) journey by late September.