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VOL. 98 | NO. 132Tuesday, April 8, 2014 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID”

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BATTLE FOR I-57The Eastern baseball team takes on Illinois-Urbana Champaign Tuesday in Mattoon.

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LET THE GAMES BEGINAfter the first day of tugs, find out who advanced to the next round on Wednesday.

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By Bob GaluskiManaging Editor | @BobGaluski

The second suspect in connection with Sep-tember’s “Barn Party” shooting plead guilty Monday to charges of resisting a police officer and driving with a revoked license.

Marquis Green, 24, of Park Forest, Ill., is the second suspect in connection with the “Barn Party” shooting. During the shooting, two people suffered non-fatal gunshot wounds.

Green received a combined fine of $1,500 as well as two years conditional discharge for re-sisting a police officer.

The conditional discharge has fewer restric-tions than probation.

Kajaun Wright, the other suspect, also ac-cused of resisting a police officer, plead guilty in November, where he was given one year of conditional discharge.

The “Barn Party” shooting occurred in Sep-tember during a party at a warehouse at 634 W. State Street in Charleston.

The party ended after gunshots were heard and the police responded. The party had an upward number of more than 1,000 attendees.

Phi Beta Sigma fraternity hosted the “Barn Party,” and in the wake of the shooting were suspended as a fraternity.

The policies for late-night parties at univer-sity buildings were also modified. Now attend-ees need to purchase tickets in advance, rather than at the door.

The attendees for the “Barn Party” met at the parking lot of Ruler Foods in the West Park Plaza on the night of Sept. 14. There, busses took them to the warehouse on State Street.

Wright and Green are the only two suspects in connection with the shooting. Neither were Eastern students at the time of the incident.

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Second ‘Barn Party’ suspect plead guilty

By Dominic Renzetti & Katie SmithEditor-in-Chief & Photo Editor

A C h a r l e s t o n m a n w a s charged with first-degree murder Monday, following an alleged shooting on the city’s north side.

Larry A. Steeples, 52, who’s recorded address is 207 Jackson Ave., Charleston, is charged in the death of Gina L. Giberson.

Giberson’s l isted address is 207 E. Vine St. , Charleston, which is where invest igators were seen Monday morning.

St e ep l e s bond wa s s e t a t $500,000.

Giberson was pronounced dead at 7:59 a.m. and an au-topsy, which occurred at 1:30 p.m. declared multiple gunshot wounds as the cause of death.

According to a press release made public by the Charleston Police Department as well as confirmation from Michael Ben-nett, the chief deputy coroner for Coles County, Steeples has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the con-nection with the death of Gib-erson.

Steeples pleaded guilty Feb. 18 to a misdemeanor charge of domestic battery and was sen-tenced to two years condition-al discharge. In that plea agree-ment, a Class 4 felony charge of unlawful restraint and a Class A misdemeanor charge of domestic battery were dismissed.

Steep le s was to appear in Coles County Circuit Court Tuesday morning in connection with an emergency order of pro-tection granted March 18.

He is also scheduled to appear in court April 28 in connection with a Class 4 felony charge of

domestic battery. The informa-tion filed in court alleged that he struck Giberson in the face on or about March 16.

Steeples was recently involved in an incident at Lefty’s Holler, 727 Seventh St., on March 30, where he was taken by Charles-ton ambulance to Sarah Bush

Lincoln Health Center after re-ceiving a knife wound to the neck. No one was arrested at the time, but Lee H. Conover, 57, of Ashmore was later charged with aggravated battery.

In Nov. 2013, Giberson and Steeples were involved in an ar-gument on 10th Street, where

Giberson reversed her truck and backed into Steeples, causing him to fall to the ground. He re-fused medical treatment.

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K atie Smith | the Daily eaSteRn ne wS aBOVe: Gina Giberson's home at 207 E. Vine Ave. is taped off after she after the 47-year-old female suffered mutiple gun-shot wounds Monday morning. According to a press release from the Charleston Po-lice Department, 52-year-old Larry Steeple has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in connection with Giber-son's death. BOttOm leFt: Police tape marks the boundaries of gubnshot fatality victim, Gina Giberson, after her death Monday morning.

By alex SeidlerStaff Reporter | @DEN_News

Former student government en-hancement committee chairman Nick Allen will have a tree planted in his honor on April 25 at 2 p.m. behind Old Main.

The tree was donated and cur-rently the marker is expected to cost around $75.

Nick Allen recommended a tree be planted every year as a tradition of the student government. The committee just brought this idea into discussion and now the deci-sion has been made to go through with it.

Yazmin Rodriguez, sophomore sociology major, currently holds the

university enhancement committee as co-chair along with Bianca Tom-lin. Rodriguez said Allen was very close to the members in student government.

“We were very great friends with him as well as many others in Stu-dent Government so we decided to incorporate it with Earth week,” she said.

Rodriguez added that Allen tried to get the tree planted, but strug-gled with funding and contacting departments around campus.

Rodriguez also said their main struggle was funding as well but they managed to obtain a tree in a cheaper way.

The tree was donated by the Ground Crew, which saved the stu-

dent government some money. “The funds for everything was

the main issue but thankfully we had the tree donated by Grounds Crew,” she said.

Former senate committee mem-ber Greg Schoonover said how the tree planting process works. “The committee used to be called the University Development and Recy-cling,” he said.

“It has been under the previous

responsibility of the committee to have special obligation to planting a tree every year.”

Schoonover said the tree plant-ing benefits the university and grounds crew because it is cost ef-fective and they overlap thus they get two for the price of one.

He said it was a basic activity that the student government could ful-fill every year, which can cost up to $200. He also said what the purpose

of a tree was. “A tree is a legacy that you leave

your mark on,” he said. “The stu-dent government works to make that happen.”

Nick Allen was a sophomore pre-business management major and ap-pointed as University enhancement committee chairman in 2012.

He served as the school mascot from 2012 until 2013 and vice pres-ident of membership development for Sigma Phi Epsilon.

He died from a seizure disorder in April of last year at age 21.

Alex Seidler can be reached at 581-2812


Tree to be planted in student’s honor“A tree is a legacy that you leave your mark on. The student government works to make that happen.”

Greg Schoonover, former senate committee member

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In the article “Delta Delta Delta” in Monday’s issue of The Daily Eastern News, The sorority second and third place winners were incorrect. Alpha Phi placed second, and Kappa Del-ta received third. The News regrets the error.

By Mariah ScottStaff Reporter | @DEn_news

Students and Charleston residents will be able to run as a part of the Girls on the Run, annual 5k run Sat-urday.

The Girls on the Run program, with support of Eastern students and staff, promote self-confidence in young girls. The run will start at 9 a.m. at O’Brien Field. The runners will begin at the field and end at the field.

For the 5k run, it will cost $20 to pre-register for anyone who wants to run, skip or walk to the finish line.

Students can register in person at the office located in Mattoon Area Family in the YMCA. They can also register online on their website. Reg-istration ends Thursday.

The Girls on the Run organization receives “tremendous support from Eastern Campus,” said Beth Gil-lespie, the east central Illinois council director of Girls on the Run.

Gillespie said this program re-ceived “tremendous growth” over the past six seasons. The first season they started out with 15 girls and during the past years they have had 1,057

girls to get involved with in the or-ganization.

The program focuses on building up young girls confidence ranging in ages from the third grade level to the eighth grade level. The program is a 10-week session, which ends with a 5k run that the organization will pre-pare to show that if the young girls can achieve this run, they can achieve anything.

Gillespie said research shows how advertising and social media has neg-ative affects on young girls and has impacted them in ways such as eat-ing disorders.

“It is hard to compete with 3,000 messages a day,” Gillespie said.

Gillespie began her own chapter in Charleston May 1, 2011 and start-ed their first program Sept. 11, 2011 in Coles County. She said she was shocked to find there was not a sin-gle program like it, even though there were still insecure girls who needed support in the county.

Gillespie added that the organi-zation helps influence not only the young girls but their coaches as well.

“They walk away with more of be-ing a coach,” Gillespie said. “They are still inspired by these little girls run-

ning.” Amanda Ziencina, the head coach

for Girls on the Run, has been in-volved for five seasons.

“Just seeing them grow and accept themselves for who they are and from where they start off at the beginning of this season to where they end is drastically different,” Ziencina said.

Other than participating in the run, the girls will meet with their counselors and talk about the topic of the day, which relate to improving oneself and teamwork.

To prepare for the race, the girls will also engage with warm ups that will be disguised as running games to help them prepare for the 5k race.

“It’s not your typical 5k, we have no timer so it’s not competitive” said Ziencina.

The day of the 5k they have a fun-draiser. Those interested can also join the 24-hour run-a-thon and run for an hour winning money that will go to the young women in the program. They can win a minimum prize of $125 for the girl’s scholarships.

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Left: Spencer Payton, a freshman marketing major, falls and is dragged through the mud Monday during the first round of little men Tugs at the Campus Pond.

Police called to Klehm after Tugs gunshots

By Jarad JarmonAssociate news Editor | @JJarmonReporter

The sounds burst ing from a shotgun s ignal ing the star t of the first Tugs match were heard across the campus, but not every-one thought it was in the spirit of Greek Week.

A faculty member in Klehm Hall reported hearing the sounds of shots fired Monday, prompting police to arrive.

Once police arrived, it was real-ized it had only been the start for the Tugs kickoff Monday.

In the first round of Tugs, the Nat iona l Pan-Hel lenic Coun-cil and Phi Kappa Alpha forfeit-ed, leaving Alpha Sigma Alpha and Sigma Phi Epsilon to move to the next round.

Alex Lais , the Greek Week steering committee co-chairman, said the NPHC had not weighed in and a member of Phi Kappa Al-pha had broken his knee, leaving the Phi Kaps one man down for the little men bracket.

Despite a strong lead for much o f the ba t t l e , S igma Chi was not able to hold out longer than Lambda Chi Alpha who, even de-spite a couple of slips from those on the team, will move to the next round going up against Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Delta Zeta won a swift victo-ry over Sigma Kappa. As the front of their line inched over on to the puddle-ridden path surrounding the Campus Pond, Sigma Kappa lost momentum and footing leav-ing Delta Zeta to move to the next round facing Kappa Delta.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon also made it to the next round, defeating Sig-ma Nu in a close tugs match.

The Tugs stomping ground had become wartorn as fraternities and sororities dug their cleats into the loose and muddy soil loos-ened even more from the showers of rain hitting the area through-out each match. Soaked even be-fore they had touched the rope, the greek participants had slipped and struggled to find footing in the game.

Despite the consistent rain, Elissa Antonakos, a Delta Zeta tugger, said the team had practiced in worse weather so they had been prepared.

“There were practices where there was pouring down rain, it was muddy like that and we were used to that kind of stuff,” Anton-akos said. “If anything, it helped us out.”

Round one of the big men’s class and Round two of the women’s class will start at 4 p.m. Wednes-day.

Jarad Jarmon can be reached at 581-2812


Dominic Baima | The Daily easTern ne ws An officer fires a gun to signal the beginning of a tugs match Monday at Campus Pond. The blank shots were heard and misinterpreted as shots fired near Klehm Hall.

K aTie smiTh | The Daily easTern ne ws A Charleston Police Department vehicle sits outside Klehm Hall after a faculty member reported shots fired at about 3:30 p.m. Monday. The police department soon after reported that the sound was the product of a gun fired during the preliminary runds of Greek Week's Tugs, which took place at Campus Pond.

Tugs SchedulePreliminaries Wednesday at 4 p.m. Big Men Round 1 and Women Round 2Friday at 4 p.m. Little Men Round 2, Big Men Round 2 and Women Round 3FinalsSaturday at noon

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I can only imagine how members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity felt on Monday morning. After all, they came out this past weekend as victors of Airband and Greek Sing. I’m sure they didn’t just high five each other and hit the sack early for a good night’s rest for Monday classes.

These are all assumptions of course, but in case they went out and had some fun, it was completely deserved.

These two events are not just gigs that you cram for over night. I’m not going to start a Rocky pump up speech on how much blood, sweat, and tears members of the Greek community mustered, but give these guys and gals some credit.

Events like these require planning, col-laboration, and loads of practice. In order to win, you need to hit every cue, every step, and every note. In this case, is which the members of Sig Ep did this past weekend.

I mean there’s not a chance in Hades that I would smile that long. If it takes more muscles to frown than to smile, why does my face hurt so much after 30 seconds?

On top of smiling for about five minutes of a performance, there had to be a bit of creativity intertwined.

Take for example the members of Kap-pa Delta who sang an assortment of Taylor Swift songs. They twisted some of the lyr-ics to the song “22.” It went along the lines of “It feels like a perfect night…To hang out with sisters.”

I apologize for the readers who now have that song playing in their heads.

Granted, the members of Kappa Delta did not win, but everyone had similar occur-rences to try to make their performance the best.

This was my first time ever attending Greek Sing. I would not have even went if it wasn’t to the generosity of my girlfriend’s parents buying me a ticket in advance to watch her brother perform.

I have never been into musicals. I think Glee is the worst thing for television since

Steve Bartman ruining my childhood/pres-ent day dreams of the Cubs making the World Series in 2003.

What I am going to say contradicts every-thing I have ever said before and what I am saying a paragraph ago.

Greek Sing was quite entertaining. For anyone that has not gone, and has the opportunity to go next year, you should take a stab at it.

Everyone has their perceptions of frater-nities and sororities. That is never going to change. You may even think Greek Week is a waste of newspaper space. Heck, I have thought that once.

It’s unfair for those perceptions to halt you from attending events that are regulat-ed for our entertainment, and their compe-tition. This is something that is very impor-tant to the Greek community.

So, keep your ears open for the future Greek Sing and Airband competitions. Besides, you might hear a song you’ve never heard before.

Kyle Daubs is a special education major.

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Money does not solve enrollment woesPassing through certain buildings such as

the Doudna Fine Arts Center or Old Main, students may notice the kiosks that have tak-en residence – or the investment that should not have been made.

The kiosks, which The Daily Eastern News reported cost roughly $5,000 each, are part of a newer wave of ideas to help increase en-rollment – by letting the prospective stu-dents get a visual experience anytime of these buildings.

With the hope of having the kiosk in an-other building soon – Lantz Arena – this will turn into an approximately $15,000, and at a time when financial woes are at the fore-front.

Although a valiant effort to be more acces-sible to prospective students, these kiosks – and investments – are not something Eastern needs right now.

With the hottest topic on campus about the Council on Planning and Budgeting and

their $7 million budget cut, buying and in-stalling these kiosks sends the wrong mes-sage.

It sends the message that while the uni-versity needs to cut $7 million, it is OK to empty the wallets for something that people part of the New Student Program or Admis-sions Office should be doing already.

We already have staff here that is trained to help with prospective students and an-swer the questions about certain buildings. In fact, they go through rigorous training to be able to do so.

If the university is adding on kiosks or displays like a museum to help guide the prospective students, what is the point of these areas and staff?

The university should not be spending money on investments with the hopes that it will garner a higher enrollment.

The university should be focusing on ideas and programs that they know will help

boost our already low numbers. Instead, the university wastes money on kiosks that any person in a program they already pay for can do.

This is not a matter of Eastern needing to keep up with the latest technology or the fact that the “hippest” thing is to get screens everywhere (looking at you, electronic bill-boards).

But rather this is a useless investment with no sort of payoff. As students, the first thing they look for is probably not whether or not a screen or a person is giving them the tour.

If roughly $15,000 – if the one in Lantz is installed – is dropped, then the universi-ty should have a clearer focus for what they want the ultimate payoff to be.

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A Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The Chicago Tribune will be speak-ing to Eastern students Tuesday about his latest book, “To Chase a Dream.”

“To Chase a Dream” chronicles the true story of college soccer player Paul “Whitey” Kapsalis.

Ted Gregory, the author and journal-

ist, is an alum from Eastern. He gradu-ated in 1981.

His presentation will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Phipps Lecture Hall of the Physical Science Building. A book signing will follow the presentation.

Before Gregory’s presentation, there will be a meet and greet with Grego-ry at 3 p.m. in the Student Lounge of Buzzard Hall.

Author, journalist to present new book

By Nicole EllementStaff Reporter | @DEn_news

This Thursday the Sexual Assault Counseling and Information Servic-es, 23 years in, is hosting Take Back the Night march Thursday.

The series of activities will take place at 6 p.m. in the Universi-ty Ballroom in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

For over 35 years in the Unit-ed States, Take Back the Night has focused on eliminating sexual vio-lence, in all forms.

Thousands of colleges, universi-ties, women’s centers and rape cri-sis centers have sponsored events all over the country.

At least one out of every three women worldwide has been beaten, forced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime by a partner, relative, friend, stranger, employer, and/or colleague.

Of these crimes, less than 50 per-cent are reported to the police. Take Back the Night’s goal is to bring awareness to the issue.

On Thursday, SACIS wants to bring awareness to the communi-ty and show that people are impact-ed by sexual violence and to reclaim safety and security in the area.

This march is a safe and respect-ful way to create awareness for ev-eryone.

The first documented Take Back The Night in the U.S. took place October 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Citizens rallied together after the

murder of young microbiologist, Susan Alexander Speeth, who was murdered by a stranger no more than a block away from her home while walking the streets, alone.

The Moondogs, a local acoustic group, will be preforming live mu-sic at 6 p.m. in the University Ball-room. At 6:45p.m. a keynote speak-er, Jeannie Ludlow the coordinator to Women’s Studies at EIU, will be speaking on the issue.

Ludlow will start off the march sharing her thoughts on the victim blaming rape culture and the sen-sitivity associated with sexual vio-lence.

In year’s prior, candles have been given to walkers, but due to weath-er complications this year glow sticks will be given out and a list of chants.

At 7 p.m., those marching will then walk the campus chanting and raising awareness of the cause. Although the event is held on the Eastern campus, community mem-bers are also welcomed to join.

In previous years, the greek com-munity has always had large atten-

dance numbers and members of the SACIS encourage these organi-zations to make time around their busy Greek Week schedules to par-take in the event. However, the march is not limited to anyone.

The march will conclude at the 7th Street Underground where a vigil will take place. Anyone is able to speak at the vigil about past ex-periences they have had or noticed, or about the march they just partic-ipated in.

Ludlow said Participants in the march are encouraged but not re-quired to stay for the reflection of the night.

The Women’s Empowerment League is going to bring their clothes line project to the 7th Street Underground afterwards, along with a denim line created by volun-teers.

For more details on other up-coming events, those interested can go to the SACIS website.

SACIS is also hosting their first annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes April 27. The run will begin in Morton Park and walkers can either wear gym shoes, flip flops, or even high heels to walk a mile in effort to raise awareness during Sexual As-sault Awareness Month.

Their will be prizes given out to groups and individuals on best shoe design, and even for “Best Legs.”

Nicole Ellement can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected]

Event raises awareness, encourages empowerment

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The Agency, a student-run public relations firm on campus, will host its second annual talent show at 7 p.m. Thursday in Pemberton Hall’s Great Hall.

Michael Wolber, a senior journalism major, will be this year’s host and mas-ter of ceremonies for the talent show.

The entry fee to attend the talent show is $1 or one canned good. All of the proceeds will go to benefit the Sal-vation Army.

Wolber said that last year, the show filled up a 50-gallon bag with cans from the talent show spectators.

“We did really good last year,” Wolber said, “This year, we hope to raise more money and more canned goods than we did last year.”

Daniel Trevor, a junior mass com-munication major, is the defending tal-ent show champion.

Trevor, who won with a beat box routine last year, said he enjoys the thrill of performing.

“Anytime I can go up and perform and showcase my skills with my lips, I take it,” he said. “I used to get ner-vous whenever I performed, but now, I thrive on the nervous energy.”

Last year, Trevor beat boxed and he is planning a new beat boxing routine for this year.

“My favorite part about this partic-ular show is actually the cause,” Trevor said, “The fact that its run by students and the money is going to The Salva-tion Army is very cool.”

This year’s acts include beat boxing, Irish dancing, poetry, singing, rapping, guitarists, comedians and many more.

Hello Dali, an improvisational troupe from Eastern, will be perform-ing during the intermission.

Talent show’s profit to go to good cause

Shuttle stuck in a muddle

JaSoN HowEll | THE Daily EaSTERN NE wSAn accident involving a car and bus occurred around 2:30 p.m. on Grant Ave behind the University Police Department. The driver of the bus, Wes Craft of Charleston, was driving eastbound when the other vehicle didn’t stop and crashed into the right-front side of the University Village shuttle bus. The driver of the silver SUV did not com-ment. One person was evaulated on scene and refused transport.

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Howell continues hot streakJunior outfielder Caleb hit .444 (8-

for-18) in four games last week for East-ern and continues to lead the Ohio Val-ley Conference in batting average at .469 in conference play.

On Tuesday against Illinois State, Howell went 3-for-5 and then he capped of his week’s play by going 4-for-5 against Murray State Sunday. Howell leads Eastern with a .431 overall batting average and has a team-high 53 hits.

In the four-game stretch, Howell scored five runs, adding to his team best 30 this season, 17 have come against conference opponents.

Not only does Howell lead the OVC in batting average, he also has a confer-ence high .565 on-base percentage.

In 18 of 31 games, Howell has re-corded at least two hits for the Panthers this season.

Pitching shows improvementAfter junior Matt Borens allowed five

earned runs against Murray State Friday, sophomore Jake Johansmeier and senior Joe Greenfield combined to throw 13.1 innings allowing five earned runs.

Johansmeier pitched into the eighth inning for the Panthers Saturday after-noon, allowing two runs in 7.1 innings. He received a no-decision, as Murray State eventually scored two runs in the

bottom of the 10th inning to beat East-ern 4-3.

Johansmeier surrendered six hits and three walks, while recording four strike-outs.

On Sunday, Greenfield improved to 4-3 this season, pitching six innings and allowing three runs.

It was the senior’s second start of the season and although he walked four bat-ters and yielded nine hits, Greenfield was able to maneuver his way past Mur-ray State to collect the win.

Eastern won two of the three games in Murray, Ky., allowing 16 runs dur-ing the weekend, which was 23 less than what Jacksonville State scored against the Panthers at Coaches Stadium on March 28-30.

Upcoming scheduleEastern plays two midweek games,

starting with a 6:05 p.m. start Tuesday in Mattoon against the University of Il-linois at Urbana-Champaign at Peter-son Park.

The Panthers return to play at 3 p.m. Wednesday against Illinois College, which is the first of five straight home games for Eastern.

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Maday wins OVC Pitcher of the Week awardBy Kaz DarzinskisStaff Reporter | @DEn_Sports

The Eastern softball team im-proved to 26-11 on the season, while improving their Ohio Valley Conference record to 7-4, follow-ing a 3-1 weekend against Eastern Kentucky and Morehead State, re-spectively, during the weekend at Williams Field.

The Panthers are currently sit-ting in third place in the OVC west division and fourth overall in the conference.

Ja ck sonv i l l e St a t e cu r r en t -ly leads the conference in wins, as the Gamecocks are currently 26-11, with a 10-4 OVC record. Southern Illinois University-Ed-wardsville and Tennessee-Martin currently lead the west division, as they are tied atop the standings with 9-3 marks in conference play.

Eastern st i l l has to play Ed-wardsville, as well as Tennessee-Martin, before the season is over, setting up a situation, which will determine seeding come tourna-ment time.

Senior Stephanie Maday threw a five-inning no-hitter in the Pan-ther’s second game with Morehead State Sunday.

Maday was named Ohio Valley Conference Pitcher of the Week Monday, joining her teammate Hanna Mennenga in winning the weekly honor this season.

It was Maday’s second no-hitter of her career. Maday improved her record to 10-5 on the season af-ter winning both of her starts this weekend.

She picked up 20 str ikeouts during her two outings.

Conference leadersJennette Isaac currently carries

a league-leading 17-game hitting streak.

Savanna Carpenter of Southeast Missouri leads the conference with a .450 batting average in 27 games played. Brooke Owens of the Pan-thers is currently fifth in the con-ference with a .353 average.

Jacksonville State has the top four run scorers, two of the top five in slugging percentage and three of the top five home run hit-ters this season.

Eastern between Hannah Cole and Brooke Owens, has two of the top five in hits this season, as well as Cole and Reynae Hutchinson have hit in the top five for RBIs.

Amongs t s t a r t e r s tha t have more than 10 starts on the season, only Leanna Pittsenbarger has bet-ter numbers than Mennenga, and Maday is only two spots back of Mennenga, meaning Eastern has the number two and number four rated starting pitchers by ERA in the OVC.

Come tournament t ime any-thing can happen, but with strong leaders such as Maday, Mennenga, Brooke Owens, Carly Willert, this team is confident in their abilities and believes they can go far this season.

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Jason Howell | THe Daily easTern ne wsSophomore outfielder Jennette Isaac bunts Saturday against Eastern Kentucky. The Panthers split the double-header 2-1 and 1-0.

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By aldo sotoAssistant Sports Editor | @AldoSoto21

Editors note: This is the first install-ment in a series looking back at Eastern baseball coach Jim Schmitz’s 20 years coaching the Panthers.

Jim Schmitz had a small office buried away in a corner of Lantz Arena when he first arrived to East-ern in the fall of 1994.

The Eastern baseball season was five months away, when Schmitz first took a seat in his own minis-cule oasis.

“We had a l i t t le of f ice over in Lantz — we had a shag car-pet, a military file and a typewrit-er,” Schmitz said. “That was it. No computers, no nothing.”

Schmitz said he was well aware of the differences between Eastern and his former employer, but he was not only physically more than 400 miles away from Ole Miss, Schmitz was in a complete different world of recruiting.

After spending four years be-ing the assistant coach under Don Kessinger at Ole Miss, Schmitz ar-rived in Charleston where he had no money, no assistant coaches and no where to stay.

The day before he departed for Eastern, Schmitz made a call to de-termine where he would be stay-ing in his first couple of days in Charleston. Schmitz did not get the best answer.

“We don’t have a place for you to stay,” Schmitz said was the response he received.

With no place to stay, Schmitz had to rely on an unconvention-al roommate that happened to be a member of the baseball team.

Mike Higgins only appeared in two games during the 1994 sea-son and knew he was a fringe guy on the Eastern roster heading into 1995, so he decided to help out the new face in town.

“He knew he wasn’t going to pitch much and he was probably going to be the 13th pitcher, so he said ‘what the hell, I like baseball why don’t I just help and not play,’” Schmitz said.

So for two nights, Schmitz slept on Higgins’ couch until Eastern set him up with a place at Carlyle Apartments.

Schmitz said the first two weeks he got to work with his team all he had the players do was scrimmage. He wanted to see what he had and what he needed to teach for his team to adjust to his coaching style.

It was no smooth transition, as players had to continually stop what they were doing during the middle of scrimmages if Schmitz did not like what he was seeing.

Schmitz would bring the team in as a whole and teach. If he saw something else wrong, he would do the same thing.

One day, Schmitz simply told the team to go home.

“I was so frustrated because I had brought them in so many times and I brought them in and said, ‘just go home and there’s no practice to-morrow. Just get out of here. Go home. I’ll pick all of the things,’” Schmitz said.

But even through the frustrat-ing scrimmages, less than desirable practice fields, which included tak-ing ground balls on tennis courts and having three players quit before the season started, Schmitz coached Eastern to a 28-19 record that in-cluded a west division title in the Mid-Continent Conference.

“It was really neat to see that group of guys waking up and saying, ‘hey I’ll do it his way,’” Schmitz said. “They didn’t have to do that.”

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When junior women’s golfer Tiffa-ny Wolf was about 12 or 13, she quit golf because she did not enjoy play-ing it.

“Golf is a tough sport and can be discouraging at times, especially when you are young because there is so much to learn about the game,” Wolf said.

It was not until her junior year at Mattoon High School she started golfing again.

At Mattoon, Wolf helped her team win the sectional and regional cham-pionships her senior year of high school and ended up going to state tournament twice.

Wolf thought she would have a dis-advantage of trying to play golf in high school because she said most col-leges look for golfers in their sopho-more or junior year of high school.

But she was lucky enough that cur-rent Eastern golf coach Mike Mon-cel was Wolf ’s swing coach in high school and has been her only instruc-tor throughout her career.

“I was fortunate enough that my swing coach was the coach at East-ern Illinois,” she said. “He knew that I could play and that I work hard. He has helped me so much with the as-pects of my game and I am so grate-ful for it.”

Wolf said she enjoys playing close to her hometown and that the team practices in Mattoon.

“I get to see a lot of people that I know,” she said. “It’s nice to have that home atmosphere.”

Throughout her college career, Wolf has been about as consistent of a golfer as they come.

She averaged a score of 83.8 her freshman year and sophomore year of college and then this year through

eight events she is averaging an 83.2.So far this season, Wolf ’s best score

came in the Austin Peay Fall Invita-tional, when she shot a 74 in the sec-ond and final round if the tourna-ment.

She has only one top 20 finish this season and it came in the Butler Fall Invitational where she shot 10 over par for each round, finishing with a score of 160 for the two rounds.

Wolf credits her consistency over the course of her college career to the coaching she has received.

“My swing has become very con-sistent, which keeps my fall flight straight and not too often it will go off,” she said.

During the offseason, Wolf said she practices with her sister every day dur-ing the summer and is able to practice as much as possible now, because the facility is open to work on her chip-ping, putting and hitting.

Wolf also participates in multiple tournaments over the course of the year to keep herself in playing mode.

Golf at Eastern is in the fall and spring and Wolf said it is difficult to manage her time with both school and practice, especially when they have to miss school to go away for tournaments.

“I find that having a plan for each day and knowing what I have to get done helps a lot,” she said.

Throughout the course of her ca-reer, Wolf said along with Moncel, her dad has helped her over the years with her golf game.

“He has helped me over the years with watching me and making sure that I do not stray away from what Coach Moncel had taught me.”

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suBmIT TED pHoToTiffany Wolf, a junior on the Eastern women’s golf team, is a biological sciences major with a concentration in pre-optometry.

Coach helps golfer find new swing

By Aldo sotoAssistant Sports Editor | @AldoSoto21

The Eastern baseball team is scheduled to play the Universi-ty of Il l inois at Urbana-Cham-paign Tuesday night, but pending rain showers may lead to a cancel-ation of the game for the second straight season.

Last year, the two teams were scheduled to play on April 23, but rainy conditions forced the game to be canceled at Peterson Park in Mattoon.

Eastern coach Jim Schmitz said a decision would be made by noon Tuesday i f the game would be played.

“It’s looking a little iffy right now,” Schmitz said.

If the game does get underway, Schmitz wil l send senior Jaden Widdersheim to the mound for the Panthers against the Illini.

Illinois is 17-11 this season and is coming off a three-game sweep of Northwestern.

The Illini have won five straight Big 10 games, leading to a 5-1 re-cord, which is their best start in conference play since 2008.

Eastern won its first Ohio Val-ley Conference ser ies , beat ing Murray State twice during the weekend.

The Panthers are 9-22 overall.Il l inois has not announced a

starting pitcher yet for Tuesday’s game.

This will be the 75th meeting between the Illini and the Pan-thers, as Illinois has a 50-24 series lead, but with Schmitz coaching Eastern is 11-11 in the series.

Last year, Eastern defeated the Panthers 8-4 in Champaign, as the Panthers scored eight runs in the top of the sixth inning and held on to win after the Illini scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning.

Eastern has won three of its last five games in the series and have split four games at Peterson Park.

First pitch is scheduled for 6:05 p.m. Tuesday at Peterson Park in Mattoon.

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By Aldo sotoAssistant Sports Editor | @AldoSoto21

Junior Brant Valach went 0-for-3 against Illinois State in Eastern’s 9-4 loss Tuesday, but in the next three games the third baseman went 9-for-15 against Murray State, including a three-home run game Sunday.

To go along with the three home runs in the Panthers’ 14-3 win in the series finale, Valach drove in 10 RBIs against Murray State and scored six runs, which earned him Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Week.

Since his return from a hand in-jury, the infielder has hit 14-for-29 (.483) in seven games.

During that seven-game stretch, Valach has committed only one error for the Panthers.

Taylor hits for cycleRed-shirt sophomore Demetre

Taylor recorded a single, double and

triple before his fifth at bat Friday against Murray State.

In the 10th inning he hit a home run to complete the cycle, while also giving Eastern an 8-7 lead.

The Thoroughbreds scored a run in the bottom half of the inning to tie the game, but Eastern bounced back in the 13th inning, scoring two runs and held on to win 10-9.

Taylor’s cycle was the second in as many weeks for an Ohio Valley Con-ference player, as Tennessee Tech’s Brandon Thomasson also achieved the feat on March 26, in a 13-5 win over Miami (Ohio).

Taylor finished Friday night go-ing 4-for-6, scoring three runs to go along with a walk and his 10th-inning home run. He now has five home runs and 31 RBIs this season, which leads all Eastern hitters.

Valach wins OVC weekly award

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