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Late Monday, some say around midnight, a Facebook page was created to allow stu-dents to proclaim their love, or lust, for whomever they like.

The catch? It’s all done anonymously through Google Docs. The page has blown up over the past few days – before this issue went to print late Wednesday night, the page had more than 5,800 likes and hundreds of posts.

“If anything, it’s super entertaining,” said Michelle Burke. “Kinda like watching The Bachelor, but with people I know.”

There have been several oth-er universities who have created similar pages, though most are

reported and taken down within days of their initiation. Kato Dirt, a page that was started shortly after Kato Love Confes-sions and focused on negative comments towards individuals, can no longer be found.

One of the only other schools that still has a page like this is Stephen F. Austin State University, located in Texas. This page, which was started on Feb. 1, seems to be a mild ver-sion of Kato Love Confessions.

“I think it’s an interesting, fresh concept. It gives a voice to those who may not have enough courage to use theirs in public,” said Karl Sathers, a Corrections student.

While the page is meant to be anonymous, Mass Media major Travis Cahill wanted to

see if this was true. He logged out of his Facebook and tried to post through the Google Docs form. He couldn’t, making him believe that the administrators of the page could still see who posted each submission.

While it is a tool for those to shy to say something in person to confess that they like some-one, there are many individuals who have been using the page to make rude and offensive comments about others.

“There are some downfalls to that though. I’ve seen some extremely inappropriate posts so far,” said Sathers. “Some may be jokes, but there may actually be some really creepy people out there.”

Professing your love, or lust, one Facebook

post at a time Some consider the “Kato Love Confession”

social media page online bullying.

MEGAN KADLECeditor in chief

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Since 1976, every United States president has recognized February as Black History Month. Since then the month of February has been desig-nated to remember African American’s past struggles in the United States and confront the problems that still exist, but also celebrate how far it has come.

President Abraham Lincoln brought forth the Emancipa-tion Proclamation 150 years ago, declaring that slavery was to be abolished in The United States. One hundred years later On August 28, 1963, Dr. Mar-tin Luther King Jr. gave his fa-mous “I have a Dream Speech” in Washington DC, calling for racial justice and equality.

Since then, many major strides have taken place that make King’s dream become more of a reality but still rac-ism exists today. In celebration and commemoration of this year’s Black History Month, The Black Student Union along with the office of African American Affairs will be put-ting on several events includ-ing soul food dinners, panel discussions, a movie, and the 37th Dr. Michael T. Fagin Pan African Student Leadership Conference at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

“Dr. Michael Fagin, has been at this institute now for 47 years, he mentioned to us that when he was here with the Black Student Union when it was one of the most feared organizations on campus, but feared in a positive light, that whenever you see a black student union they were always doing something positive they were always helping out in the community they were always willing to give an extra hand

to those that are disabled or those that are less fortunate,” said President of the Black Stu-dent Union at MSU, Cortez J. Hollis. “So we kind of wanted to kind of bring back that legacy but let people know that just because we are the black student union doesn’t mean we are all black.”

Tuesday February 12 and Tuesday Feb. 19, the Black Student Union Hosted a mock panel discussions similar to what will be discussed at the PAN African convention. The topics were “being black in a predominately white campus” and “obsession complexion” both topics discussed realities that students face at MSU, ac-cording to Hollis.

“During the panel’s first discussion we talked about how any forms of oppression and racism that maybe some African Americans or Africans have faced on campus and we kind of went into detail from there” said Hollis. “It was extremely successful.”

Wednesday, February 20, a movie discussing the “n-word” free to all students was shown in the CSU North Ballroom.

There have been soul food dinners each Thursday during February. The event has been held at various places around campus where they serve food that has been traditionally popular throughout African American culture. Thursday Feb 21, the dinner will be held at 5 PM, in the Centennial Stu-dent Union in room 269. The dinner is free and is open to all students.

“You can see some corn bread you can see some bar-beque chicken, we had gumbo, snacks, brownies cakes, lemon bars, lemonade,” Hollis said.

Black History month celebrated

with soul food, discussions, film viewings and a

conferenceLUCAS RYANstaff writer

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Thursday marks the opening day of “And Then There Were None” presented by the Minnesota State University, Mankato depart-ment of Theatre and Dance.

The play is based off of Agatha Christie’s detective novel, which came out in 1939. In 1943, it was turned into a play and has been performed ever since, including a Broadway production in 1944.

According to the Department of Theatre & Dance website, Christie’s original story “con-tains some of that era’s more problematic so-cial beliefs about women, religion and race… We have taken the liberty of updating the text slightly to make it what we believe Christie

would have wanted if she were writing today.” The plot of “And Then There Were None” is

simple: a group of strangers have been invited to a mansion on a remote island. Throughout the evening, they enjoy themselves as they are wined and dined. After dinner, the guests realized that they have been tricked into coming to the island.

The book is one of Christie’s best selling nov-els and has sold more than 100 million copies,

making it the world’s best-selling mystery ever. Once trapped on the island, the guests are

murdered one by one. While there isn’t active audience participation, director Heather Hamil-ton believes that those who pay close attention will solve the mystery.

“It’s a murder mystery, and if the audience watches the action very closely they should be able to figure out who the murderer is at the end

of the play,” she said. “All the clues are on stage if the audience is clever enough to see them.”

There are toy soldiers representing each of the guests, and as the guests die, the soldiers crumble.

A nursery rhyme tells how each of the “sol-diers” met his death: “Ten little Soldier Boys went out to dine/ One choked his little self and then there were nine/Nine little Soldier Boys sat up very late/One overslept himself and then there were eight/Eight little Soldier Boys travelling in Devon/One said he’d stay there and then there were seven/Seven little Soldier Boys chopping up sticks/One chopped himself in halves and then there were six/Six little Soldier Boys playing with a hive/ A bumblebee stung one and then there were five/Five little Soldier Boys going in for law/One got in Chancery and then there were

four/Four little Soldier Boys going out to sea/A red herring swallowed one and then there were three/Three little Soldier Boys walking in the zoo/ A big bear hugged one and then there were two/Two little Soldier Boys sitting in the sun/One got frizzled up and then there was one/One little Soldier Boy left all alone/He went out and hanged himself and then there were none.”

Hamilton is an assistant professor at MSU and does acting and directing for the Theatre Depart-

ment. She has acted in almost 40 productions in the last ten years and holds a PhD in Drama from the University of California, Santa Bar-bara.

Hamilton said that in addition to the 11 students in the cast, “costumes, set, sound and

props were all designed by students.” There also is an all student crew.

Angela Sahli, a third-year MFA candidate, did the costume design for the production. Mary Jane Olson and Curtis Fliegel, both BFA candidates, did scene design and sound design, respectively. The students and Hamilton began meeting last

semester and have only been rehearsing since January, but the theatre department is confi-dent that the production will turn out exactly as planned: as a “superlative mystery-comedy” classic, complete with a dark and rainy night, a mysterious murderer and a creepy mansion.

The play will take place in the Ted Paul The-atre of the Earley Center for Performing Arts and will run from Feb. 21-March 3. On Feb. 21, 22, 23, 28 and March 1 performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Matinees will be held at 2:00 p.m. on March 2 and 3.

Tickets are $16 for general admission, $14 for senior citizens and students with their MavCards will be charged $11.

“Once trapped on the island, the guests are murdered one by one. While there isn’t active audience par-ticipation, director Heather Hamilton believes that those who pay close atten-tion will solve the mystery.”

Department of Theatre and Dance Is Back At It

‘And Then There Were None’ opens today

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BEST PICTURE: Who Will Win: Argo Who Should Win: eh, prob-

ably ArgoEven though it was snubbed

in the best director category, which usually goes hand in hand with this award, Argo has been cleaning house in all the precursor award shows. Though I didn’t put my money on it early on, it seems almost absurd not to do so now.

All in all, the movies nominated for best picture this year are mostly really good picks, certainly more so than last year’s anemic lineup. And while there are certainly other nominees like Les Miserables and Silver Linings Playbook that I enjoyed more than our current frontrunner, Argo is a flick that is exciting, enjoyable and well-made enough that I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it winning.

BEST DIRECTOR:

Who Will Win: Steven Spiel-berg, Lincoln

Who Should Win: Ben Af-fleck, Argo (seriously)

As I said, the winners of the best picture Oscar almost always take best director as well, so when Affleck was left out in the cold for his direc-tion on Argo, it seemed like the book was closed on that movie’s chances. We know differently now, but that doesn’t change the fact that Affleck’s work in craft-ing a tense, historically accurate thriller will go unnoticed by the academy.

With Affleck and other direc-tor snubs (Katheryn Bigelow, Tom Hooper, Quentin Taran-tino) out of the picture, the buck falls to the runner up, Steven Spielberg. Spielberg is no stranger to the director statue, having already won for Shin-dler’s List in 1993 and Saving Private Ryan in 1998. Spielberg is facing some stiff competi-tion from the likes of David O. Russel and Ang Lee, but when it comes down to it, the academy’s long admiration for The Beard has the best chance of shining through.

BEST ACTOR: Who Will Win: Daniel Day-

LewisWho Should Win: Daniel

Day-LewisThere are a lot of great lead-

ing male performances in this category: Denzel Washington carried an entire movie on his back, Bradley Cooper excelled at the marvelous writing he was given, Joaquin Phoenix trans-formed himself into something repulsive and Hugh Jackman brought a character to life that was more complex than any he’d been given previously (and flaunted his vocal prowess, no less). But just the name Daniel Day-Lewis should indicate how the race will turn out.

Daniel Day-Lewis wasn’t so much acting in Lincoln so much as Abraham Lincoln was appearing himself in the movie. Not satisfied with settling into the common image of Lincoln, Lewis poured time and research into our 16th president and crafted an absorbing role that stands on its own as the defini-tive portrayal of Honest Abe. And while I know it will break my poor editor’s heart, there was never any doubt where this race will end.

BEST ACTRESS: Who Will Win: Jessica

ChastainWho Should Win: Jennifer

LawrenceThis race is so tense I think I

need a Xanax. The two lead-ing ladies have for months been playing leap frog on who’s per-ceived to be leading. Chastain is indeed great but she has an almost an unfair advantage since she’s essentially the only character in Zero Dark Thirty.

Jennifer Lawrence however is once again playing a charac-ter that isn’t an obvious choice for her and knocks it of the park, showing off just how hilarious she can be, while also provid-ing more than one eye-opening scenes of just how intense she can get. The decision will ulti-mately come down to whether the academy wants to recognize a veteran character actress or reward upcoming talent.

BEST SUPPORTING AC-TOR:

Who Will Win: Anybody’s guess

Who Should Win: Robert DeNiro

If the last race was tense, this one is just unforeseeable. Tommy Lee Jones was the original frontrunner but the

victory of Christoph Waltz at the Globes, followed by multiple winners since has thrown that into wack and there has been a frontrunner since.

All the nominated perfor-mances are really good (though lack of a villain role in the list is disappointing). For the sake of choosing, Robert DeNiro, much like Lawrence, has at least two ‘awards’ moments in his role as Bradley Cooper’s OCD father. In picking a definitive winner, my crystal ball is foggy, so I plead the fifth.

BEST SUPPORTING AC-TRESS:

Who Will Win: Anne Hatha-way

Who Should Win: Anne Hathaway

Hathaway is only in Les Mis-erables as the doomed Fantine for about 15 minutes but once you see those 15 minutes, any second guesses about this cat-egory should be washed away.

BEST ORIGINAL AND ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

Who Will Win: Original

– Quentin Taratino, Django Unchained

Adapted – Chris Terrio, ArgoWho Should Win: Original -

Nobody

Adapted – David O. Russel, Silver Linings Playbook

Judging by all the screenplay awards he’s scooped up so far, Tarantino has the best shot at taking the original screenplay award home. I honestly could care less. In a category populat-ed with nominations for movies

in which the main detriment was writing, Tarantino’s pomp-ous, overblown, and boring screenplay is possibly the worst of them all. But hey, if the acad-emy enjoys 10 minute speeches about nothing (which I’m sure they’re used to by now), more power to them.

As for adapted, at least three nominees feature wit to spare. Terrio’s writing for Argo continues to be the frontrun-ner, being fast paced and subtle in its humor but Russel’s work on Playbook is just as humor-ous and dramatic as the others, if not more so. Add to that his personal connection of writing it for his son, who struggles with some of the issues of the film, and he seems all that more deserving.

BEST VISUALS:

Who Will Win: Life of PiWho Should Win: Skyfall,

among others Much like Hugo did with last

year’s awards, Life of Pi looks poised to be the collector of the technical awards this year. Ex-pect it to take home best visual effects, best cinematography, best production design. For best makeup expect Les Miserables, best costume for Anna Karenina and editing for Argo.

Life of Pi is pretty. Skyfall is gorgeous. The cinematography in the latter is shockingly good and it’s a shame it will probably end up being just another movie Roger Deakins gets snubbed for. Likewise, the practical produc-tion design in Les Miserables by far tops the CGI overkill of Life of Pi.

BEST SCORE:

Who Will Win: Mychael Danna, Life of Pi

Who Should Win: Thomas Newman, Skyfall

The academy, the majority of which are not musicians, tend to favor more ethnically centered scores, Indian being a popular sound they have favored in the past years. Mychael Danna is also a veteran composer with a long, varied career.

But you know who else is a veteran composer? Thomas Newman. You know who has been nominated like 14 times without winning? Thomas Newman. You know who wrote a score that steps outside the model of what that composer has written? Thomas Newman. You know who wrote arguably the standout score out of 22 other comparable ones? You guessed it.

BEST SONG:

Who Will Win: Adele - Skyfall

Who Should Win: Adele – Skyfall

Unlike last year’s meager two offerings, this year we have a grand total of five songs and they’re all good. However, one of them just happens to be the best thing since sliced bread and, so far, the various award shows have agreed. At this point the question isn’t whether Adele’s Bond theme will take home the gold, rather how much stuff is going to be burned to the ground if someone messes this one up.

Oscar Mystic Makes His PicksJAMES SCHUYLER HOUTSMAstaff writer

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A dirty living room is an inevitable conse-quence post mass consumption of greasy eatables and watered-down Keystone piss. On nights of sin, newly cleaned sinks and kitchen counter tops morph into stacks of foul smelling plates and rows of glass bottles. Bath-rooms begin to resemble crime scenes, and the last thing on one’s dehydrated mind is strap-ping on a pair of yellow dish gloves and going to town on a clogged drain.

So, my fellow Mavericks, how on earth does a family of maniacal college slobs from different parts of the state cooperate with each other and co-exist in a peaceful, trash-free environment? Well, the answer is quite simple: with today’s human mind comes an attention span that is comparable to an inebriated bloodhound’s, and as we all know, especially for the male sex, apathy tends to be a go-to after a night of bowel evacuation on the side of South Street Saloon – so, for four pizza inhaling derelicts who use cereal bowls for water glasses, keeping clean is an impossibility.

But there is hope, my worried reader, there is a light peaking through the darkened clouds of roommate hell. It’s called giving up and realizing the aforemen-tioned truth. Your stress will dis-solve; the boiling blood in your veins will subside; garlands of

fruit will fall from the heavens and birds will chirp their great-est songs. To let go of trying to change the degenerative habits of you and your roommates is beyond liberating.

Yet, there are a few steps you can take into making your stay here in Mankato - river city of love - more comfortable. So lets put our imagination hats on and dive head first into the deep caverns of sloth solution.

First and foremost, beer cans and bottles are little bastards who scatter everywhere like carpet platoons on a mission. And what’s even more terrible is the fact that, on average, each American drinker consumes more than 28 gallons of beer per year, which makes everyone’s lives seem even messier.

It is infuriating having to wake-up to a frenzy of empties blockading your favorite living room power couch, and half of them being tipped over, trickling out remnants onto the carpet. Therefore, make it a household requirement to use mugs while quaffing down cold ones. This way, you pour the golden glory into your apparatus, toss the can into the trash and you’re good to make your Irish relatives proud trash free.

Another killer of clean car-pets is the dreaded H20 that sits like a pool of black resin inside the bulb of your Tommy Chong. Mavericks, if you do indulge in the tied-stick, avoid leaving your “water piece” out for your insignificant others to tip over.

Trust the advice of yours truly; it stinks worse than lutefisk, and when you’re bouncing around your house listening to Prince party like it’s 1999, it’s sure to cause a stain.

Besides the nuisance of empty cans and spilled contra-band, comes an even more beast of an annoyance that fiddles

with the chords of our patience like a banjoist: the remains of a night’s drunken munchies.

Several screwdrivers deep, stomach thickened by lagers, failed attempt after failed at-tempt to capture lust, and now you’re one drunk bus ride home away from ordering two meat lovers pizzas from Domino’s and stuffing your face like

Oprah on a bad day. And to top off your excessive consumption of processed fat, you crack-open more cans of beer only to leave them full and sitting out for the rest of the night. Oh to be young.

According to an article in Men’s Health (online), it is sad that “binge drinkers are least likely to meet the dietary guidelines for fruits and veg-etables and more likely to skip breakfast, in comparison to people who drink less or not at all.” This means that, in a household of college kids who tend to drink, Jimmy Johns and Pagliai’s are a frequent way to stay full.

Now let’s break this down. You live with drunken slobs, such as yourself, who love to consume beer in the masses, listen to music at the highest of levels, eat chicken wings of the greasiest proportions, and ne-glect ever cleaning-up because, lets face it, it’s almost as bad as living in a puddle of your own vile excrement. Pizza boxes sleep on the ground, and empty bags of Jimmy float around your place like feathers. This here is a big problem, and the only solu-tion that yours truly has come up with is constant ridicule.

When a roommate leaves a mess, it should be mandatory for his or her roommates to take aim

at said roommate with a barrage of condescending subtleties that ultimately destroys any sense of maturity that the roommate thinks he or she posses. For ex-ample, if your insignificant other leaves a half-eaten sandwich out and carton of rotting milk for the whole world to enjoy, make sure you comment on how wonderful it smells and how marvelous that half-eaten grinder looks the next time you two are lounging on the couch. By then your room-mate will catch on, and due to embarrassment, he or she will in fact clean the mess.

Game set and match, Mav-ericks. Your prayers are hereby answered by the all mighty yours truly. Your attempts to change are truly squashed, but to start small is a good way to keep optimistic. It is a good guess to think that many of your living-rooms look like all hell, so try to keep it kempt people. It isn’t your fault nor your roommates, again, American excess is the one to blame. So the next time you party, don’t be surprised – just make sure you start the day off with the inevitable shower beer.

Once again, this has been another edition of An Editor’s Thought extracted out of the freaky mind of yours truly. Cheers to the world.

An Editor’s Thought:Messy Men and the Inevitable Shower Beer

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Mavericks open with three big wins at the dome One year after possibly the best squad in school history, the MSU baseball team traveled

to the Metrodome to pick up three wins to start their season off with the right foot.REECE HEMMESCHsports editor

Winona State 0 3No. 10 MSU 14 0

Sioux Falls 3 2No. 10 MSU 4 3

shannon rathmanner • msu reporterSophomore Connor McCallum went 6-13 in the weekend’s four games, including four RBIs, two runs scored and a monster homerun in game one of the weekend.

Almost eight months after the Minnesota State Univer-sity, Mankato baseball team took the field for their final bout of the 2012 season at the College World Series, the Mavericks returned to the diamond this past weekend at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, going 3-1 on the weekend against a pair of NSIC opponents.

The no. 10 ranked Maver-icks began their season split-ting against conference-rival Winona State Saturday, before sweeping Sioux Falls in deci-sive fashion. Although MSU played two teams within the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, all four games were billed as non-conference and would not count towards their conference record.

MSU came out guns blaz-ing Saturday, trouncing their first opponent of the season Winona State by a score of 14-0 in game one. The ball for the season opener was placed in the hands of junior pitcher Jason Hoppe, whose unforgot-ten heroics of last season were

not overlooked, as he went five innings for the Mavericks, giving up just two hits and walking two in the process.

Everyone knew MSU’s pitching staff would be back and rearing after last season, but the big story of game one Saturday was the sticks for MSU, who registered 15 hits in the process of 14 runs.

The Mavericks would lead just 1-0 heading into the fourth inning of game one when MSU’s bats came to life. The inning would end with Mankato recording six runs on five hits, holding onto a 7-0 lead with three innings left to play, but the game would be far from over, with MSU earn-ing seven more runs in the sixth inning to put the game away for good.

Sophomore third baseman Connor McCallum led off the sixth with a solo home run high over the “hefty bag” in right field, followed by a Scott Lindner single to bring in two more runs, followed by a triple from junior Parker Sullivan which brought in Lindner

and junior Ben Keller.When the final out was

reached, MSU stood atop Winona State with a 14-0 win.

“To score 14 runs in the first game of the season, that was a statement,” Sullivan said on the win. “We’ve been waiting six months for all that to happen and our hitting came on strong.”

Sullivan was one of four Mavericks to tally three hits on the game, as he ended up 3-5 with three runs scored and three RBIs for the Mavericks. McCallum also saw three hits on the game, along with junior Stetson Olson and sophomore Nolan Johnson, whose three hits were all doubles in the big win.

MSU’s bats would die down the second game, accumulat-ing just four hits as they fell to Winona State, 3-0.

“We saw a different style of pitching in game two, he was a little more crafty,” Sullivan said. “Everyone was trying to do too much after getting 14

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Mavericks get just one point from weekend with one series left on the season

The MSU women’s hockey team could not get their offense going as they lost and tied St. Cloud State over the weekend to put their record at 10-18-4 with one series left to play on the season.

TIM FAKLISstaff writer

The Minnesota State Univer-sity, Mankato women’s hockey program fell to a tie and a loss over the weekend in their last home series of the regular season to the St. Cloud State Huskies.

With the loss, the Mavericks fall to 10-18-4 on the regular season, and have been struggling equally in the WCHA confer-ence, with a 6-16-4 mark in that regard.

This marks the last series that the Mavericks will play in Mankato this regular season, and with a 4-8-4 record at home this year, there was some left to be desired for the Mavericks on the ice at All Seasons Arena this year.

In the opening game of the weekend, the Mavericks finished the night with a 2-2 tie against the Huskies.

The Huskies would eventu-ally take the mandatory shootout by a score of 1-0 on a goal from Audrey Hamner.

One major moment was when Lauren Smith continued to further add to her record-setting season, putting in yet another goal for the Mavericks. This goal also happened to tie yet another Mavericks record, as she extended her goal streak to five games, tying the MSU record.

A major role in the loss had to do with a matter of shots on goal. The Huskies outshot the Mavericks 39-25 in the game,

and despite goaltender Danielle Butters’ impressive efforts, her 37 saves were not enough to pull out a victory against an aggres-sive St. Cloud State offense.

In the second game of the se-ries, the Mavericks were shutout in a game where the offense was never able to get anything going.

In a 2-0 loss to St Cloud State, despite an impressive 40 saves by Danielle Butters, the shaky play by the defense, and a Mavericks offense that was doubled in shots on goal by their counterparts.

The Huskies’ Audrey Hanmer put in both goals for her squad, getting the first goal early in the first period, with the second coming on a power play

St. Cloud State 2MSU 2

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in the third, which was enough to give them enough breathing room for the remainder of the contest.

“We got out shot bad because we need to be quicker on our breakout decisions,” head coach Eric Means said, following the set of games over the weekend. “We need to convert the first pass. We haven’t done it consis-tently and we spend too much time in our own zone.”

With one series remain-ing in the regular season, the Mavericks take their talents to Columbus to take on the Ohio State Buckeyes, a team that the Mavericks are plenty familiar with.

In late November and early December, the Mavericks’ fate in Mankato to the Buckeyes was similar to the one they

just experienced last weekend, finishing with a loss and a tie at home. Their hope going on the road, with nothing to lose at this point, is to get an unlikely set of wins against a top-5 team in the WCHA.

The Buckeyes sit right above the Mavericks in the WCHA standings at fifth, but the results this season are not as close. Ohio State currently stands at 16-14-2 in the regular season with an 11-13-2 record in play against teams in the WCHA.

“Once we take care of that area of the rink we will gener-ate more offense,” Means said. “Right now we spend too much time in our end and we deplete our energy before we ever get to play offense.”

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runs, I guess the expectations were a little higher.”

Junior Tyler Ockuly would start on the mound for Manka-to and go five solid innings, striking out a game-high 10 batters, but giving up three runs, including a first-inning solo homerun to Warrior shortstop Seth McMullen, the NSIC preseason player of the year.

Junior transfer Chris Wil-liams would come in for the final two innings of the ball-game, slamming the door on Winona State and not letting a batter reach first base. The relief effort would be a solid one, but MSU could not get a pair of hits in the same inning, splitting the series against Winona State to start their season 1-1.

Although Sunday’s double-header against Sioux Falls would not be as flashy as their work Saturday, the Mavericks would steal a key two wins from the Cougars to bring them back to life.

“You always want to get at least three games out of a series of four,” Sullivan said. “Overall it was just a bench-mark to see where we stood and what we need to work on. It was a good start and now we just have to build on from there.”

Game one saw senior Har-vey Martin start on the bump for the Mavericks, who made a name for himself in the NSIC last season, going 10-0 with a 2.95 ERA. Martin would go four innings for Mankato, giving up just one run on two hits.

MSU would trail Sioux Falls 3-1 heading into the bot-tom of the sixth, when junior Todd Standish laced a triple with two outs to score Wil-liams and Lindner, giving the Mavericks their final lead of the game, 4-3.

Lindner would lead MSU offensively in game one, fin-ishing 2-2 at the plate, includ-ing an RBI triple in the fourth. Mankato would only see five hits in the game, which was good enough for the win.

The weekend would be completed with the Mavericks

taking their final game, 3-2 from Sioux Falls, thanks to some late inning heroics once again from the MSU side.

With the score tied 1-1 heading into the final inning; McCallum delivered a single that would score Standish and Sullivan off of a throwing error to give the Mavericks a 3-1 lead. Junior transfer Tyler Sparger would let up one run in the final inning, but it would be enough as MSU walked out of the Dome with a 3-2 win and three wins on the weekend.

Junior Bryce Bellin would start the game on the mound for the Mavericks, going six strong innings without letting up an earned run before being replaced by Sparger in the seventh.

MSU would again see a three-hit game from Sul-livan, who went 7-14 on the weekend, leading MSU in hits during that span; a feat worth while for Sullivan, who saw little playing time in his first two years on the squad, before receiving the opportunity to start this past weekend and taking advantage of it.

“I guess the change in myself mainly came from my confidence,” Sullivan said. “My first couple of years I put a little too much pressure on myself and it came out back-firing. This year I knew I was a guy who had to step up and make things happen. I got an opportunity and never looked back from there.”

With the solid swinging of MSU’s offense laced in with it’s dominant pitching and over-abundance of arms on the squad, it is safe to say that the NSIC preseason ranked no. 1 squad is right back from where it left off last season and is prime for another run at a conference champion-ship and possibly its second straight berth in the College World Series.

MSU will next be in action Feb. 26th as they head back to the Twin Cities and the Metro-dome to take on Bemidji State in another non-conference matchup.

With less than a month re-maining in the regular season, the race for the WCHA’s top prize is on, and with just three points separating the league’s top five teams, the McNaughton Cup is still very much up for grabs.

Statistically, the Mavericks have a slim, single digit chance of hoisting the team’s first championship banner next fall, but in hockey perhaps more than any other sport, there’s always a chance.

Of the twelve teams that make up the WCHA, an unprecedented seven of them are still in the running, at least mathematically.

With a little bit of number crunching however, we can nar-row that list down a bit.

Four of our final seven teams have six games, or 12 possible

points, remaining on the sched-ule, giving St. Cloud, UND, Minnesota and Denver a sizable advantage in that regard.

UNO, Wisconsin and MSU however have just four games remaining on the schedule, a total of 8 points.

Further complicating mat-ters is the fact that our final seven will square off against each other five times over the next three weeks, making those series’ the ones to watch.

All together, a crucial 20 points remain on the table in those series, meaning that the cup will likely remain up for grabs well into the league’s final weekend.

Overall, despite sitting just three points out of first place, the Mavericks will need to win all four of their remain-ing games in order to have any chance at claiming the trophy.

First up is a trip to Colorado Springs next weekend, a place

that has been less than kind to MSU throughout its history.

Colorado College owns a commanding 26-14-1 record against the Mavericks in a series that dates back to 1999, and will be in a position to so-lidify home ice for the WCHA playoffs if it can defend World Arena for one more weekend.

Still, a sweep is absolutely necessary to MSU’s title hopes.

Next on the docket is a hometown showdown with an impressive North Dakota squad that has lost just three of its last 17 games.

Alright, let’s say that it all comes together over the next few weeks. MSU’s efficient offense continues to roll, the defense stays solid and Stephon Williams manages to shut down a pair of potent offenses.

The Mavericks will have finished with 37 points, three

Shooting for St. PaulRYAN LUNDnews editor

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Breaking down the final three weeks of the WCHA regular season.

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Sioux Falls (12-12) &SW Minnesota State (15-12)

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RECAP: The Minnesota State University, Mankato men’s basketball team kept their first place status in the NSIC, but it isn’t all theirs as the Winona State Warriors have tied them for first after they knocked off the Mavericks 75-64 this past Saturday. Junior guard Gage Wooten led the Mavericks with 13 points to go along with his team-high eight rebounds. Sophomore forward Assem Marei added 12 points and five rebound of his own. The night before, the Mavericks won their 10th road game of the season with a 67-54 victory over Upper Iowa. It was sophomore guard Zach monaghan’s night with his team-leading 17 points and six dimes. The former South Da-kota State Jackrabbit also provided five steals in the first half. Junior forward Connor O’Brien also added another double-double to his career with 13 points and team-high 15 boards.

HISTORY: The Mavericks and the Southwest Minnesota State Mustangs have been conference rivals for quite some time and the tides have turned back and forth through the past four seasons. In their past seven meetings, the Mavericks have taken five of them including an 85-84 victory back in Decem-ber. With the University of Sioux Falls, there isn’t much of a history with the Cougars just joining the NSIC this season. The two teams did meet back in December and the Mavericks came out on top 74-52.

MSU NOTES: As the season wraps up this upcoming week-end, the Mavericks have shown the NSIC two things: they can flat out score and rebound. Even as they do lead the NSIC with 78.2 points per game, the squad does a great job distribut-ing the ball around. With 15.17 assists per game this season, Monaghan has been the floor general of the NSIC with a conference leading 5.79 assists and an assists/turnover ratio of 2.78. With rebounding, the squad has not only been doing a good job controlling the boards, but they have kept the whole conference off them. With an impressive 9.4 rebound margin, those rebounds have given them two or even three chances each possession to score.

SWMSU NOTES: The Mustangs of Southwest Minnesota State are starting their travels this weekend with a 15-12 overall record and 12-8 in the conference. With the squad sit-ting at fifth in the South Division, these Mustangs are hungry for wins this weekend. The squad hasn’t really gotten into a groove throughout the year, but they have beaten the teams they should, and as years have gone by the conference knows SMSU’s fundamentally sound program and they will get after you offensively. As of this week, the team sits at sixth in scoring with 72.2 points a game with Jordan Miller leading the way with 15 points a night. The key matchup will be with Marei and SMSU’s center Nick Smith. Smith is a bruiser down low and will be one of the toughest tests Marei will see in the NSIC.

SIOUX FALLS NOTES: The Cougars of the University of Sioux Falls haven’t been welcomed to the NSIC with open arms as they sit in seventh in the South Division with a 7-13 conference record. Even with their mediocre 66.9 points a game, the squad came off their best win of the season with a 70-58 over the 14-6 Augustana Vikings this past weekend. Three players to watch for are James Rader, A.J. Holland and Derek Brown, who all average in double-digits in points-a-game. While the squad is relatively young, they don’t lack in size and they can really drive the ball to the basket.

PREDICTION: After losing to Winona State this past week-end, the Mavericks aren’t playing around this weekend, as they need two wins to keep their NSIC regular season title hopes alive. After winning by 22 points up in Sioux Falls, the Mav-ericks shouldn’t have any problem with the Cougars. Saturday will be different as the Mustangs are in a win to survive mode as they make their way to the Taylor Center. It will be a hard fought game, but the Mavericks have a chance to close out the regular season with two wins.

Hoops team needs two big wins to sit atop conferencepoints shy of last years Mc-

Naughton-winning Minnesota squad (40 Pts) and six points shy of 2011 champion North Dakota (43 Pts).

Over the last decade, the av-erage number of points required to win the WCHA’s regular sea-son title has been 41, while just two teams (Minnesota in 2007 and North Dakota in 2009) have won with fewer than 40.

And while those trends certainly don’t favor the Mav-ericks, the WCHA has been far more competitive this season than in previous ones, with six teams currently poised to make the NCAA tournament, and no. 18 Wisconsin still in position to make a run.

A few key things however, will need to happen.

St. Cloud State can win no more than two of its remaining six games.

A third win would give the Huskies 37 points and the title, based on the WCHA’s tie-breaking procedures.

The Huskies will round out the season with trips to Colo-rado College and Wisconsin, as well as a home series with Michigan Tech.

For MSU to remain in the conversation, at least one of these teams would need to deliver a sweep of the Huskies on the road.

Nebraska Omaha is in a similar position, and can win no more than three of its final four against Wisconsin and Duluth.

With six games remaining on the schedule, UND repre-sents a more tangible threat for the Mavericks.

While North Dakota is free to sweep Denver and Bemi-dji without impacting MSU’s chances (they would finish with 36 of 40 possible points), MSU will still need those remain-ing four points against UND to have any chance at the trophy.

Minnesota, with its no. 2 spot in the Pairwise and domi-nant home record, can win no more than four of its final six, a selection that includes Duluth and Denver at Mariucci, as well as a trip to Bemidji.

The Gophers have led the league in almost all major statistical categories this sea-son, and will still represent a tangible threat to MSU should their dominance against Duluth and Bemidji continue.

Once again however, it’s important to remember that anything can, and likely will happen.

At the end of the day, the Mavericks might not be in the drivers seat with just four games left to play, but for a team picked to finish near the bottom of the WCHA this sea-son, it’s been a wild ride.

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