November 16, 2012Vol. 91 Issue 6 EASTERN OKLAHOMA STATE COLLEGE EST. 1908Eastern StatesmanEastern Statesman

Campus News, pg. 3

Campus Life, pg.2

Views, pg. 5

Alumni pg.7

Sports, pg. 8

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner

fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an

encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the

inner spirit.”

- Albert Schweitzer

Eastern Oklahoma State College sophomores Kate Atchley from Brown-wood, Tex. and Jake Wood from McAlester were named the 2012 Homecom-ing queen and king during festivities on Nov. 3. Kate represented Eastern’s softball team, while Jake represented the baseball team.

EASTERN ROYALTY Eastern postmaster is one of the many veterans on campus

Chambers receives $1,000 community college scholarship

Eastern Oklahoma State Col-lege sophomore Larriann Cham-bers recently received a $1,000 tuition waiver scholarship from the Oklahoma Association of Community Colleges (OACC).

Chambers, who is from Tush-ka, is currently studying agricul-ture communications at Eastern. She plans to graduate in May and pursue a double major in agriculture communications and agriculture business at Oklaho-

ma State University.OACC scholarship recipi-

ents are selected based on academics, leadership and ser-vice. Chambers is very active in student organizations at East-ern. She is the Eastern Student Government reporter, the Aggie Club treasurer and a member of the Ag Ambassadors. She is also a Presidential Scholar and a member of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society.

GuY FOLGERSENiOr STAff WriTEr

There are over 125 veter-ans on the campus of Eastern Oklahoma State College. This is the story of just one, David Martinez, EOSC postmaster.

In 1973, Martinez received his GED from McLane High School in Fresno, Calif. Because of the growing gang popula-tion in and around Fresno, he had already decided against pursuing a law enforcement career and was now thinking of leaving the area.

When his best friend visited a Navy recruiter, in 1974, he decided to enlist, as well. After recruit training (boot Camp) in San Diego, Calif., he attended the Navy’s Boiler Technician School.

Since a boiler technician lit-erally keeps the Navy moving, a lot of time is spent at sea or aboard ship. During his naval career, Martinez was stationed aboard the USS Robinson, a guided missile destroyer, the USS Fort Fisher, a dock land-

ing ship, the USS Lockwood, an anti-submarine warfare fast frig-ate and the USS Blue Ridge, a logistics control command ship. While on the USS Robinson, the ship was at Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam.

Among the shore duty sta-tions of Martinez were the base police at Naval Air Station Cor-pus Christi, Texas, as an instruc-tor at the Engineering Systems School and as a Command Duty Officer at the Service School Command, both at the Naval Station Great Lakes, Ill.

After Boiler Technician School, Martinez received ad-ditional training at Automatic Combustion Control console op-erator and maintenance courses, Naval Instructor School, Career Information Coordinator course, Boiler Water Test and Treatment course and Gas Free Engineers course. As a result of his train-ing, he is a licensed First Class Stationary Engineer with the

Eastern President Dr. Stephen Smith presents sophomore Larriann Chambers with her $1,000 scholarship award from the Oklahoma Association of Community Colleges.

HONORING OUR HEROES David Martinez spent 22 years serving in the United States Navy

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Members of the Psychology and Social Sciences (P.A.S.S.) Club take time for a picture during a regularly scheduled meeting. Pictured front row, from left, Cheryl Wood-Myers (faculty sponsor), Hailey Luker, Morgan Merrifield, Virginia Rivera, Haley Cadle, Taylor Burch, Rebekah Ingle, Payton Hokit and Angelica Macias. Middle row, Brittany Martin, Kelsey Eller, Carlynn Wren, Mary-Iris Green and Nichole Stuart. Back row, Teaquah Robinson, George Green, J. Dante Wortham and Sam Harley. For information concerning the PASS Club contact Wood-Myers at 918.465.1757. Photo by Mark Stephens

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Phi Theta Kappa claims victory in statewide voter registration contest

Eastern’s Phi Theta Kappa honor society recently led a winning effort to register students to vote during a statewide competition. Officers include (l to r) Whitney Noel of Rattan, Haley Cadle of Haileyville, Taylor Glasco of Kinta, Brittan Raines of Red Oak, Allison Burns of Broken Bow, Khyria Vires of Haileyville, and Bradley Battershell of Calvin.

EOSC PRESS RELEASEEastern Oklahoma State College’s Phi Theta

Kappa (PTK) honor society recently received first-place honors from Oklahoma Campus Compact for winning a statewide voter regis-tration competition.

Student PTK members registered an addi-tional 8.1 percent of Eastern’s student popula-tion to win. During the five-day competition, 24 participating colleges and universities reg-istered a total of 3,880 new voters. The winning institutions will be recognized during a Dec. 6 meeting of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.

Established in 2000 as part of the Oklahoma Campus Compact, the object is to increase stu-dent civic engagement on Oklahoma college campuses.

The competition is comprised of three cat-egories based on full-time student populations. Eastern is in the RED category with state univer-sities and colleges with 1-3,000 FTE (full-time-equivalent students). The runner-up for the RED category was Seminole State College with 4.6 percent of its student population.

11/19 Seminole State College @EOSC 6 p.m.

11/29 Northern-Tonka-wa @EOSC 6 p.m.

1/4/13 Talihina @ Wil-burton - 6:30 p.m.

1/24 Connors @ EOSC 6 p.m.

1/25 Hartshorne @ Wil-burton 6:30 p.m.

2/1 Heavener @ Wilbur-ton 6:30 p.m.

2/7 Carl Albert @ EOSC 6 p.m.

2/18 Redlands @ EOSC 6 p.m.

With the end of the se-mester coming to an end, it is important to be aware that the offices of Eastern Oklahoma State College will close for two weeks during the Christmas break.

While finals week will end Dec. 14, Eastern’s offices will maintain normal hours until Dec. 18.

Offices will open again Jan. 3, 2013. The spring se-mester will officially begin Jan. 14, 2013.

Offices closing for winter break

beginning Dec. 19

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McAlester campus gets new police officerGuy FolGerSenior Staff Writer

The McAlester campus of Eastern Oklahoma State Col-lege (EOSC) now has a new po-lice officer. Alton Jones comes to EOSC from the Latimer County Sheriff’s Department where he is still a reserve of-ficer.

Before Latimer County, Jones served 14 years in the U.S. Army including two tours

of duty in Iraq. He is still in the Army Reserve as a Staff Ser-geant in the Information Tech-nology System Analyst field.

Jones, in addition to being the McAlester campus police officer, is a full-time student at Eastern. He is in the Collegiate Officer Program (COP) and plans to graduate, in Decem-ber, with an associate degree in Criminal Justice.

“I really like it at Eastern,

eASTerN SAFeTy

both as a student and an em-ployee,” he said, “I can see the potential growth that Eastern has and I am hopeful to be a part of that growth.”

His eventual goal is to ob-tain his bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice and hopefully someday become a Game War-den with either a state or fed-eral department of wildlife.

Jones is married and has three sons.

Military veterans honored at annual recognition ceremonyCArTer hASkiNSStaff Writer

Veterans Day has come and gone, but the appreciation felt for our nation’s heroes can still be felt here on Eastern Okla-homa State College campus in Wilburton.

The community college held a celebration of military veter-ans Monday, Nov. 12 at 1 p.m. in the Student Center.

Before the actual ceremony, veterans were treated to lunch by the Honors Program, who host the annual event.

Every veteran in the room was individually introduced and honored in front of a near-packed room of appreciative

students, staff, faculty and guests.

Punch was served and two video presentations produced by the Mass Communication Department were presented to the room.

What originally started out as Armistice Day in 1919 by then president Woodrow Wilson, has changed its name in recent years to Veterans Day.

For over 200 years now men and women have sacrificed their every day lives to insure the safety and protection of American ideas.

Not all of these heroes were granted the choice of war or no war that any former com-

bat soldier will tell you is a life changing experience.

In a day when it is popular in certain circles to celebrate the death of men and women who made the choice to go to war, it is comforting to know that there are still patriots present in today’s society.

“It makes me proud to see the students of EOSC showing support for our country’s vet-erans,” commented Guy Folger, retired Navy Petty Officer First Class (1956-76).

“After all, we are your broth-ers, sisters, fathers, mothers, neighbors, and friends. Thank you to our veterans and those who support us.”eastern held a Veterans Day celebration honoring america’s heroes nov. 12 in

the Student Center.

Music Department schedules 86th annual Candlelighting program

The Eastern Oklahoma State College Music Department will present its 86th Annual Candle-lighting program at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 2 in Mitchell Audi-torium. The program will feature performances by the Eastern Concert Choir and Mountaineer Band. The concert is free and open to the public.

The Mountaineer Band will begin the evening with songs from “The Nutcracker,” “A Peace-ful Christmas,” Jingle Bell Gallop,” “A Christmas Cannon,” “The First Noel/Pachelbel’s Canon” and the “Twelve Songs of Christmas.” Eastern’s Concert Choir will per-form a variety of holiday selec-tions and melodies.

Patrick Moore, Eastern’s di-rector of instrumental and cho-ral ensembles and head of the Music Department, will direct the performance, while Mary E. Ford will serve as the accompanist. Eastern students Hailie Dust of McAlester, Sam Harley of Idabel, Rodney Morris of Forney, Tex. and Alison Burns of Broken Bow will give solo performances.

EOSC performers include Pat-

ty Craig, Cheyenne Crosby, Pat-rick O’Hara, Laren Cox, Nicholas Santine, Nicholas Wingo, Adam Butler-Jones, John Fryer, Miran-da Isbell and Trisha Sykes, all of McAlester; Dayna Bills, Ashton Forwoodson, Trevor Vasquez, Nicole Grimsley, Hailey Ketchum, Lacy Dunlap and Melissa Mor-rison, all of Wilburton; Brittany Cooper, Tyler Mottioda, Kylie Holman, Shirlene Green, Caleb McCoy, Olivia Green and Jo Stew-art, all of Hartshorne; Josh James and Dottie Minshall of Clayton; Sarah Stockton of Quinton; and Jordan Franks of Norman.

Homecoming 2012Page 4 November 16, 2012

Eastern has a major hangover after the festivities of homecoming week. Monday our campus played host to illusionist Craig Carge. Sam Harley won the always coveted Miss-ter Eastern pageant on Tuesday, or as most of Sam's friends now know him Ima Dreamcatcher. Wednesday the campus found itself over run with ghost and ghouls as the Halloween carnival was a hit as clubs and students lined the streets for Trunk-or-Treat. The week was capped off with a flame, literally, the bonfire was a hit once again, followed by a concert by the always entertaining and Eastern Alum Bo Phillips. The award that all the clubs of Eastern were vying for was the ever elusive Spirit stick, which was won by the Lady Mountaineers basketball team. The Math and Science Club also won for Best Float in two different categories.

November 16, 2012 Page 5Views & Reviews

Guy FolgerSenior Staff Writer

Over the Eastern Oklahoma State College homecoming weekend, alumni and students alike were heard to ask, “What’s wrong with the clock tower?” or “What’s going on with the clock tower?”

During the homecoming pa-rade and weekend, it was noted that some EOSC Photo Club, Criminal Joes, and Native Ameri-can Student Association (NASA) members were wearing t-shirts emblazoned with “Save the Clock Tower”. Actually though, instead of EOSC clock tower doom it was merely a homecoming float idea gone awry.

Originally, the Photo Club, Criminal Joes and NASA had combined their manpower and efforts to enter a float in the homecoming parade. Their idea was taken from the blockbust-er movie “Back to the Future” (1985).

In the movie, set in 1985, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is accidentally sent back in time to 1955 in Doc Emmett Brown’s (Christopher Lloyd) DeLorean time machine. At 10:04 p.m. on November 12, 1955, the town’s clock tower is struck by lightning rendering it stuck in time. Back

in 1985, the movie depicts citizens pass-ing out fly-ers proclaim-ing, “Save the clock tower.”

Fast forward to 2012 and a McAlester auto deal-ership has promised the clubs the loan of their DeLo-rean automo-

bile, so all that is left to do is build a clock tower out of cardboard, get more candy and maybe some t-shirts. An award-winning float was definitely in their future.

However, with only two days left before parade day, the deal-ership backs out of their promise; there is no clock tower; there isn’t even a lab coat for Doc Brown. There is a truck, though, and can-dy and t-shirts, so the show must go on.

“Save the Clock Tower” may still be seen on campus.

By the way, there are some who believe that the “Back to the Fu-ture” clock tower scenario is the reason for the clock tower part of the Eastern Statesman logo, but that’s another story.

Save The Clock Tower? Clubs confuse onlookers with Homecoming shirts

Guy FolGer Senior Staff

Writer

Jayson KniGhtStaff Writer

I believe the best idea our founding fathers had was mak-ing the freedom of speech the very First Amendment. I appre-ciate the exchange of ideas. I’m happy that the world’s politics were fairly popular over the last few weeks.

Despite agreements, the com-munication between different viewpoints is what creates Amer-ica’s melting pot. Cultures com-ing together and finding com-mon ground is a beautiful thing. That’s why it has upset me to hear so many things said to silence or discard someone’s opinion dur-ing recent political discussions.

My three least favorite ideas that were so popular in day-to-day conversation, Facebook posts and YouTube comments all sought to suppress free speech lately: “If you don’t vote, then you don’t get to complain about the president”, “I see a lot of bit-ing the hand that feeds” and “If you don’t like it the way it is here, then why don’t you just leave?”

I didn’t vote because lobby-ists and unions that support the campaigns of politicians are only concerned with the bottom line. Until a presidential candidate speaks out against the military industrial complex that I feel is obvious, I will not support any of them. I would have voted for Ron

Paul because of his consistent voting record on all topics and because of his non-intervention-ist foreign policy.

Please pardon the ramble, but it’s important to note that my decision was an educated one. As long as people are reading up on policy and issues with a non-bias approach and picking a candidate to steer America in one direction or another, then I not only respect that, I admire it. I believe if you treat the privi-lege with the respect it deserves, it doesn’t matter whether or not you voted. What matters to me is doing the right thing, which for me not supporting the political system. While it isn’t a popular opinion, I support your belief in voting, and I believe mine war-rants discussion. In my opinion, elected positions should be fam-ily businesses far more rarely.

My point is there is no melting pot if you don’t allow yourself to take in some new ideas. Conver-sation builds community. If we could replace the greed of the wealthy with an equal amount of community, I believe the world would view us as a fine example. There’s nothing wrong with na-tionalism by itself if that’s what you’re into, but we can’t ignore the effects we have on the world.

The first amendment was, in my opinion, designed and imple-mented for the distinct purpose

of biting the hand that feeds. You can’t just be a good dog and obey your owners in this era of available knowledge that proves obvious misgivings and wrongdoings from our politi-cians. These highly respected, and respectable, positions are occupied by leaders that owe ev-ery taxpayer their best efforts at a better community.

As a member of the world community, I would love to visit every country, but I love being an American. I love our people, our strength and what the con-cept of America (Latin for free-dom) really means. That doesn’t mean that I have to accept being part of war profiteering. I don’t understand why it’s celebrated. When I served in the military, I truly believed that I was a link in a chain that was keeping my family safe. I see now the connections between the politicians in power, who they’ve been supported by and how the policies they go after benefit those interested in only profit. When did the pur-suit of happiness become just a strong sense of greed and hate-ful sensationalism?

I want the precedent for Amer-ica to be the people’s devotion to their goals; I want to see them chase their dreams. But I’m uto-pian in nature, I wouldn’t be hap-py until I found out what dreams chased.

Freedom Of Speech: What has become of the First Amendment?

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theatre eastern's Childrens theatre is currently in production of the Jun-gle Book. Look to the next issue of the Statesman for more pictures from the performances.

NewsPage 6 November 16, 2012

American Society of Power En-gineers (ASOPE).

Awards earned by Marti-nez include the Southwest Asia Service Medal with two bronze star devices, Navy Commenda-tion Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon with four bronze star devices, Navy Expeditionary Medal, Navy Unit Commenda-tion, Saudi Arabian Liberation of Kuwait Medal, Meritorious Unit Commendation with one bronze star device, Navy “E” Ribbon, Navy Good Conduct Medal with four bronze star devices, Kuwait Liberation of

MARTINEZCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

Kuwait Medal, Navy Expert Pis-tol Medal, National Defense Service Medal with one bronze star device and the Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist breast insignia.

Additional training com-pleted by Martinez was at the Senior Enlisted Propulsion Engineers Course, Shipboard Engineering Plant Program Manager Course and the Se-nior Enlisted Academy. After 22 years and 4 months service , he retired as a Boiler Techni-cian Master Chief Petty Officer (Surface Warfare). Martinez be-came the EOSC postmaster in Nov. 2010.

Eastern postmaster, David Martinez, speaks during the Veterans Day assembly in 2011. Martinez served 22 years and 4 months in the United States Navy.

Area college students join PTK national honor society

A group of 25 high-achiev-ing Eastern Oklahoma State College students were recent-ly inducted into the national honor society Phi Theta Kappa during a campus ceremony in Wilburton.

Founded in 1918, Phi Theta Kappa is recognized as the of-ficial honor society for com-munity colleges. The organiza-tion seeks to foster scholarship, leadership, service and fellow-ship among its members. Mem-bership is based on academic achievement and is granted by invitation only. To quali-fy for membership, students must have completed at least 12 hours of associate degree course work with a cumulative 3.5 grade point average.

Pictured at the event were (left to right) Callie Morris, Wilburton; Katelyn Coe, Fay-

etteville, Ark.; Rebecca Stewart, Stafford, Tex.; Caitlin Busby, Wil-burton; Dan Wong, Wilburton; Lesa Curry, McAlester; Amber Jones, Stuart; Michael Staggs, McAlester; Chassidy Ward, Wil-burton; Nichole Stuart, Talihina; Amanda Rhine, Lincoln, Ark.; Joseph Nelson, Talihina; Sarah Davidson, Haileyville; Larriann Chambers, Tushka; and Kyle

Buck, Broken Bow.Also inducted, but not in at-

tendance were Misti Buckely, McAlester; Dianna Gage, Ida-bel; Set Hix, Mannford; Chelsea Hofegartner, Canadian; Larry James, Millerton; Catherine Live-ly, Broken Bow; Sandra McCabe, Wilburton; John Troussel, McAl-ester; Chris Turner, Tulsa; and Larry Whitney, Talihina.

CASTS A MEAN SHADOW

Statesman Senior Staff Writer Guy Folger caught this great photo of the Mountain-

eer’s shadow outside of Johnston Hall.

Alumni November 16, 2012 Page 7

By Mike Cathey EOSC 1983 Of IndIanOla

EOSC Alumni are not just some “old fogies” with gray hair who walked the halls of EOSC during the Stone Age. On the contrary, EOSC alumni even in-clude those like the Sandefur sib-lings who just graduated during 2010 and 2011 and who both are just now finding their way in the world.

Daniel Sandefur (EOSC 2010 of Hartshorne) earned his asso-ciate’s in Business Management in 2010 before earning a 2012 bachelor’s in Business Man-agement from Oklahoma State University (where he graduated Magna Cum Laude). During Dan-iel’s time in Stillwater he was employed as a Merchandiser/Cashier at Twenty Something.

Daniel currently resides in Oklahoma City and since Oc-tober is an Equipment Opera-tor for Archer Pressure Pump-ing, an oil and gas company of Union City.

“I am responsible for the safe operation of fracking equipment and the support of well site ac-tivity,” Daniel shared about his new position. “I am called upon to verbally communicate and understand certain details and directions and I also am charged with operating certain company vehicles and to accurately main-tain Department of Transporta-tion logs.”

Leslie (Sandefur) Nichols (EOSC 2011 of Hartshorne), earned her EOSC associate’s in Criminal Justice in 2011. Since Leslie’s graduation she has got-ten married and is currently em-ployed as a teacher’s assistant at the Choctaw Nation of Oklaho-ma’s Jones Academy Elementary School near Hartshorne. Leslie and her husband, Laramie, are currently in the process of buy-ing their first home.

While at EOSC Daniel was ac-tive in Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) the

business fraternity and was the PBL Club representative for the Eastern Student Government As-sociation. He also volunteered in the annual holiday Toys for Tots charity program at the PBL State Conference.

He was also a participant in the EOSC Honors Club, where he was also involved with a holiday program for the disad-vantaged families of the com-munity and was the male atten-dant for the Honors Club during EOSC Homecoming.

Daniel was also a two-time participant in the very popular Mr. Eastern Pageant.

Though not too far in the past Daniel remembers about his time at EOSC, “Some of my favorite memories came from hanging out with members of the Honors Club. We spent numerous hours with research projects and com-munity service activities around Wilburton.

“I also enjoyed Homecoming week, where there were different activities that the student body would participate during the week, from shopping cart races to the trivia game to the Mr. East-ern Contest.

“I would encourage any EOSC student to participate in as many clubs and activities on campus as possible. This gives you the opportunity to network with other people and institutions. This could help someone land a job after you graduate and also a great way to make lifelong friends.”

Leslie was named the 2011 Outstanding Divisional Gradu-ate in the EOSC Social Sciences Division. While at EOSC, Leslie was a member of Phi Theta Kap-pa Honor Society, was listed on both the Dean’s and President’s Honor rolls and was selected to Who’s Who Among American Ju-

nior Colleges. She was also a member and

secretary of the Criminal Justice Club and represented the club during Homecoming as their queen candidate.

“My most memorable mo-ments at EOSC were in the Criminal Justice Club and all of the adventures we took,” shared Leslie.

“I learned a whole lot and made a lot of memories with the club activities. I also have very

WHERE ARE THEY NOW...

Eastern Alumni making an impact on the world

Daniel & Leslie (Nichols) Sandefur

fond memories with all of the activities that occurred at the be-ginning of each school year.”

Daniel Sandefur and Les-lie Nichols are third generation EOSC Alumni. Their mother, Me-linda (Sherrill) Sandefur (2006 of Hartshorne), and their grand-father Charles “Buddy” Sherrill (EOSC 1959 of Hartshorne) are also EOSC Alums. Daniel and Leslie’s father Buddy Sand-efur is a member of the EOSC faculty teaching both Spanish

and English.Though their journeys are just

now beginning, Daniel and Les-lie are sure to get out there and make an impact on the world.

Mike Cathey is a lifetime member of the EOSC alumni association. While at Eastern, Cathey was also a staff writer for The Statesman and the Vice President of the Student Senate. Cathey is also a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and resides in Chicago, Ill.

daniel (left) and leslie (nichols) Sandefur are third-generation Eastern graduates. Top right, leslie was named the 2011 Outstanding Graduate of the Behavioral and Social Sciences division. Below right, daniel as a contestant in the Mr. Eastern pageant. Submitted photos

SportsPage 8 November 16, 2012

Dalton ShumateStaff Writer

Eastern opened basketball season with convincing Home-coming wins over Rhema Bible College

Eastern Oklahoma State Col-lege opened the basketball sea-son with two convincing wins over Rhema Bible College during Homecoming festivities on No-vember 3. The Lady Mountain-eers finished with an 87-50 vic-tory over the Lady Eagles.

The Lady Mountaineers had two freshmen in double figures. Jordan Franks of Norman led

Dalton ShumateStaff Writer

The Mountaineers open the basketball season with a convincing Homecoming win over Rhema Bible College.

The Mountaineers started off strong and finished strong with a 126-99 win in a high scoring season opener against the Eagles. Sophomore Rod Lewis of Memphis, Tennessee led the Mountaineers in scor-ing with 21 points. Lewis is a returning sophomore from last year’s 32-5 team that finished fourth in the NJCAA National Tournament.

Freshmen DeVaughn Pur-cell of Orlando, Florida and Alfonzie Wilson of Memphis, Tennessee both added 17 points in the victory over the Eagles. Ryan Devers and Ky-mer Levy added 13 points each in the victory over the Eagles.

Eastern defeated the semi-pro team Dallas Diesel in overtime on November 10. The team will open up confer-ence play with a home game against Seminole State Col-lege on Nov. 19.

Lady Mountaineers pick up Homecoming victory

the Lady Mountaineers with 21 points and 18 rebounds, while Octavia Allen of Brenham, Tex-as added 14 points and 10 re-bounds. Freshman Olivia Brown of Pearland, Texas finished with 14 points and 5 assists; sopho-more Taylor Jones of Austin, Tex-as and Jasmine Perkins of Little Rock, Arkansas both added 12 points.

“The freshmen stepped up and did a great job,” said head coach Amber Taylor “Their team defense was great.”

The women will open up con-ference play at home Nov. 19.

Eastern men soar high in opening game; Lewis leads team in scoring

Left, sophomore rod Lewis goes up for two of his 21 points in the home opener.

Members of last year’s men’s bas-ketball team helped unveil the new National tournament banner before the Homecoming game took place. the 2011-12 Mountain-eer team finished fourth in the na-tion with a 32-5 record.