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Sobering Center could replace jail and emergency room trips
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Without the Sobering Center, students who get in alcohol-related legal trouble could find themselves transported more than 60 miles to regional jail BY ALAYNA FULLER CORRESPONDANT A public Sobering Center may soon be available in Morgantown. The Sobering Center will provide a safe environment for intoxicated individuals to sober up and begin recovery, said Daniel Shook, director of Mountain Safe in the WVU Injury Control Research Center. It aims to decrease alcohol-related injuries and enhance public safety by providing an alternative to jail and the emergency room. Shook works with injury prevention in the Morgantown community as well as throughout the Appalachian region, and he’s helping make the Morgantown Sobering Center a reality. “The Sobering Center, or Sobriety Center, is a place where people who are acutely intoxicated can go and safely recover without fear of further medical problems, injury or crime being applied to them,� Shook said. Shook said that sobering centers are fairly new, with only 28 in the United States.
SGA introduces new projects, Greek Week postponed, Campus Cup reinstated During last meeting, SGA sets pace for new year.
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The distance between High Street and the North Central Regional Jail is 68 miles. “This is not a safety issue throughout the state of West Virginia,� Shook said. “It’s in Morgantown, and it’s because we’re a university town, but we are geographically put in the places
where we have a lot of access to our downtown or to alcohol.� Morgantown city code allows bars to stay open longer than other surrounding states. Students from surrounding state universi-
ties come drink in Morgantown because the environment downtown is constructed so that people can drink an excessive amount of alcohol and be easily admitted into bars, Shook said.
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Farmers market provides fresh options for students WVU Medicine Farmers Market allows students, faculty and community members to shop local and eat fresh. page 5
Bot account can tell when PRT is down within five minutes BY KAYLA GAGNON STAFF WRITER What started as computer programming practice for Richard Deal has become a useful source of information for students traveling from campus to campus. Deal, a WVU alumnus, created an unofficial, bot-operated PRT monitor Twitter account, called
PRT Monitor, in February 2017. Deal studied computer science and is now a web developer for Marriott International. Every five minutes, the account gets information on the PRT’s status. If the status is different than five minutes ago, the information is saved and an update is tweeted. According to last Friday’s tweet from the PRT Monitor ac-
count, this semester the PRT has been down more than 70 times and had close to a 94 percent uptime. Deal said he wanted the PRT Monitor account to have short tweets that would give the information on the PRT’s status that would be useful to students. “WVU’s website only reports an outage if it’s going to be longer than 15 minutes, but any stu-
dent will tell you that all outages are significant when you are trying to get to class on time,� Deal said. In addition to its brief informational tweets, the PRT Monitor account also tweets at 5 p.m. on Fridays about the statistics of the PRT’s performance for the semester at that point. The account currently has 65 followers.
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Obioma introduces two new projects, SGA postpones Greek Week, reinstates Campus Cup BY QUEST BABCOCK CORRESPONDANT A number of campus events were scheduled and WVU Student Government Association President Isaac Obioma introduced two new projects at Wednesday’s SGA meeting. Obioma announced intentions to increase the diversity of ideas by encouraging open discussion with SGA and by creating videos highlighting individuals and their stories. Obioma’s second plan is to develop a Student Mental Health Council, which would work alongside WVU’s Carruth Center. He intends to expand some executives’ current responsibilities to include this council. Senator Madi Matheny announced the postponement
of Greek Week until October. Three new resolutions were passed, all with unanimous support. Five members of the legislative branch were absent Wednesday. The first new resolution was to reinstate the “Campus Cup”, a University-wide competition of both athletics and wits. The proposal was made with a an event schedule soon to be released and a points system. The resolution received unanimous support. The second resolution was to begin the process of adding representatives from the College of Law to SGA. The proposal was met with unanimous approval, meaning students will vote on the addition of the College of Law at the next SGA election. The last resolution approved created an Eberly
CENTER CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Emergency medical services or law enforcement usually handle intoxicated individuals, Shook said. He said on weekends the emergency department at Ruby Memorial Hospital have hallways packed with intoxicated people the police have taken there, and the hospital doesn’t have the resources to handle them. Shook said this can also lessen the problem that police and emergency responders have dealing with intoxicated people when they could be responding to actual emergency situations. Another issue is the financial impact that’s imposed on the county by sending these people to jail. “We really want to look at this from a financial standpoint. This is very costly to the county to transport, arrest and deal with drunk in-
dividuals,” Shook said. “A lot of resources go into taking care of these individuals who are coming out of bars intoxicated.” He said about 10 percent of all emergency room calls are alcohol-related and many of those are not emergency cases, just a place where somebody can be taken. Currently, intoxicated individuals who are arrested are sent to the North Central Regional Jail, which is about 60 miles away from Morgantown, Shook said. Students could be sent to the Sobering Center instead of the regional jail. There will be criteria in place to determine treatment for people and make sure they’re medically stable to come to the Sobering Center, Shook said. They can spend the night at the center and later be assessed to
College Town Hall in order for representatives to more effectively collect the opinions of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, due to its very broad group of majors. This proposal also received unanimous support. SGA granted funds totaling $6045.43 to the Reform University Fellowship, Public Relations Student Society of America, Alpha Phi Alpha, WVU Student Grotto, Bangladeshi Student Association and Young Democrats. Matthew Hartman, Alexander Arnold and Tyler Knight were all unanimously appointed to the Board of Finance. Brooke Hirst was also unanimously appointed to the position of election chair in addition to the office she currently holds as deputy legislative affairs officer.
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SGA president Isaac Obioma introduced two new projects at Wednesday’s SGA meeting.
“We’re hoping to make this a community service and something that really could save the lives of these people but also provide an educational experience for people at the university.” -Daniel Shook, Director of Mountain Safe see if they’re medically stable enough to be released. Students will be medically monitored for simple things like their vital signs, heart rate and blood pressure while at the center. Officials are also hoping to create a follow up with social services a few days later to see if students can receive some help for treatment, Shook said. Shook liked the idea of working with the WVU
School of Nursing and letting nursing students, or students who want to become nurse practitioners, assist at the Sobering Center. It could also extend beyond nursing students to include social science, neuroscience or overdose and substance prevention students. “We’re hoping to make this a community service and something that really could save the lives of these people
but also provide an educational experience for people at the university,” said Shook. There will also be supervision with law enforcement coming from Morgantown Police Chief Ed Preston’s personnel, Shook said. Preston said in an email that he had no status update on the project. “We do not have a sobering center or intox shelter yet, therefore I can not make any statements,” he wrote. “My apologies, but I am not in a position to comment on a working proposal.” Funding for the Sobering Center will mainly rely on public contributions, Shook said. Ideally, officials would like to have a volunteer staff, social service workers and psychologists paid or on call. “The county stepped up this year and has granted me a $25,000 fund, which would go toward purchasing equipment or whatever we need to help make this thing func-
tion,” Shook said. Preston wants to turn one of the first floor training rooms at the Morgantown Public Safety Building into the Sobering Center, Shook said, where there will be separate rooms for men and women. In two weeks, Shook said he is meeting with Morgantown Deputy Chief Eric Powell, deans at WVU and Dr. Toni Rudisill to put the health care component into the Sobering Center project. Rudisill is an epidemiologist at WVU, and Shook said she will be determining how well the Sobering Center works when it’s here. Based from the data shown in states with sobering centers around the country, Shook said it’s proven that the center will save the county money and ensure safety for intoxicated students.
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Health Dean: Interpretation of life events important to mental wellness BY JOE SEVERINO NEWS EDITOR For Dr. Clay Marsh, strengthening mental health and wellness comes from working to change the way we interpret life events and how we respond to adverse experiences. Marsh, the executive dean and vice president for Health Sciences at WVU, said everyone deals with mental health issues and it’s important to recognize that. But he said there’s a difference in the way we all interpret and respond to stress. “People that stop being able to function well, whether it’s because they get depressed and lose energy to do anything, or whether they get so manic, so chaotic, that they can’t function, those are the people who need help,” he said. Marsh talked about how we all have a self-perceived personal value, which in terms of mental wellness, relates to what standards
“We’re trying to really work with people by trying to build resilience or build the ability for people to see that you ultimately always have control over how you interpret anything, you just may not have control over what those things are.” -Dr. Clay Marsh, Executive Dean and Vice President for Health Sciences we hold ourselves to and how we see ourselves in the world. He said it’s important to recognize that just one event could damage your personal value if you let it. “There’s also situational times, somebody does poorly on a test and feels very out of control or misinterprets their performance,” he said. “So, if I feel like every time I don’t make a great grade on a test, that I suck as a person, I have no worth, then every test is going to be risking my personal value; it’s going to make me very uncomfortable.” Marsh said the way we interpret life events at the end
of the day can be changed. He compared it to his time as a critical care physician in ICU, when he saw dying patients who were willing to give anything just to see a have a walk outside or have dinner with their family. “You think about it, you can do that any moment of any day, that’s a privilege, that’s a miracle, that’s a blessing you have,” he said. “But you almost never see it that way until it’s gone.” He said after dealing with an adverse life event, we should try to focus on how we interpret the event more than the event itself. “Whatever you interact
with, you then interpret, and that’s what you believe,” Marsh said. “So, that middle step of how you see it and how you interpret it is modifiable, and what we try to do is give people a different frame.” “So, I think the key for me in helping build resilience or helping build behavioral wellness is really giving people the ability to see that they can choose whatever frame they want,” Marsh continued. Resilience to adverse events also comes with age, Marsh said, so it’s important to remember mental wellness is something that takes a whole lifetime to develop. “We’re trying to really work with people by trying to build resilience or build the ability for people to see that you ultimately always have control over how you interpret anything, you just may not have control over what those things are,” Marsh said.
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Dr. Clay Marsh’s tweet on Sept. 10, regarding World Suicide Prevention Day.
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Morgantown: the new Hollywood? BY SEAN TANSKI CORRESPONDENT Morgantown may not be unseating Hollywood any time soon, but that shouldn’t discredit the hard work that was presented Friday night in WVUp All Night’s Campus MovieFest. Campus MovieFest (CMF) was initially two college students at Emory University who challenged their fellow classmates to see what they could make in a week. Since then, CMF has grown to involve more than 1 million students. More than 20,000 films have been made. This year, WVU had 50 student groups participate. CMF has grown so big that this year they partnered with Amazon Prime Video to stream movies that have been made by students. It all starts with an
info session where students learn tips and tricks on how to film and edit. After that, students get their equipment at “Launch day.” Students receive multiple mics, cameras and even a laptop with editing software. Then, after a week of filming is up, students head over to “Collection” where they turn in their finished film and equipment. Then it’s the big night, the “premiere.” At the premiere, students get to walk the red carpet and pose for pictures. They then get to watch the top 16 films the judges chose. These 16 films then compete for the jury awards, which are awarded to the top four films. These four films are then entered to go on to compete in the finals in Atlanta, and winners receive a one-year subscription to Amazon Prime and Adobe Cre-
ative Cloud. They also have an invitation to apply for a chance to take part in the Cannes Program. The Cannes Program is an invitation for 45 CMF filmmakers to attend the world-famous Cannes Film Festival in France. This years’ four finalists were: “Mobile Identity,” a film about contradictions between social media posts and real life, “Les Vaisselles,” a comedy about the struggles of washing dishes, “Routine,” an animation flick and “Act II,” a story about a gay man struggling to find love. “Act II” main actor, Adam Payne, also grabbed “Best Actor” for his performance. During his speech, he said his film was something, “based on true events near and dear to my heart.”
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Rob Simmons, Adam Payne and Sam Thompson in the short film finalist, “Mobile Identity.”
WVUp All Night Sponsors Weekly Improv Acting Classes STEPHANIE GOLDEN CORRESPONDENT This year, WVUp All Night has started sponsoring a new “intro to improv” class at the lair on Monday nights from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The class is available to any student here at WVU, regardless of whether they’ve been acting for 10 years or have never stepped foot on a stage. Currently, the class is focusing on the fundamentals of improv by practicing agreement, game playing, joining and more. Toward the end of the semester, they plan to do more with actual improv scenes. With that experience under their belts, students will culminate their own closed student recital in November
to share what they’ve learned with people they are close to. “It seems like there has always been an interest in getting an improv class or group going, but I think there’s been a struggle to offer something consistently,” said James Froemel, a 34-year-old recruitment specialist for the WVU College of Creative Arts and the class instructor. “By partnering with WVUp All Night, we’re hoping to provide more consistency and eventually to have a performance venue for the students.” Motivation to start the new program came from the University’s desire to create classes that are accessible to all students. Having the program tie into WVUp All Night lets students participate, free of charge, allowing them
to accomplish their goal of accessibility. Froemel graduated from the School of Theatre and Dance with an acting degree and took improv himself at several different training centers. It has been a while since he has taught classes, but he said “it’s been a lot of fun getting back to it.” Froemel believes the program benefits students here at WVU. “[It’s a] great outlet to create and to meet other people who share an interest in this. Improv draws in a different crowd than you might find in other areas of theatre,” he said. “We have students studying math, computer science, theatre and psychology coming together to cut loose and play improv games for a few hours a week.”
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Three students participate in an improv class on Aug. 27, 2018.
Farmers market provides fresh options for students BY RACHEL JOHNSON ASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR When food in the dining halls becomes boring, WVU students have to look no further than their own campus to find fresh produce and flavorful local foods. Every Wednesday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., the
WVU Medicine Farmers Market offers quality items grown, made or produced locally. This is a weekly event that takes place in the Health Sciences Center parking lot by the Neuroscience Institute. A variety of vendors attend on a week-by-week basis, selling everything from organic produce to local food favorites. Along with good food, visitors can take advantage of other
services offered such as chair massages and floral arrangements available for purchase. There is also live music at the Farmers Market as part of the summer concert series. The lineup for the summer concert series includes Jones Avenue on Sept. 19, Jenny and Nathan Jazz on Sept. 26, Wes Hager on Oct. 3 and Kevin Hamric on Oct. 10. This is the 10th season the
WVU Medicine Farmers Market has been providing services to students. The price range of the Farmer’s Market varies. Most food vendor’s main dishes are $8$10, fruits and vegetables vary and drinks are a few dollars The Farmers Market is held no matter what the weather or other circumstances are like. The Farmers Market allows students and employees
to purchase everything from fresh produce from farmers to lunch food from area restaurant vendors. All products are handmade or homegrown. This event allows students, faculty and anyone walking through a chance to get fresh fruits and vegetables, enjoy local live music, experience different ethnic eats that Morgantown has to offer and get a better sense of the commu-
nity that we live in. The Farmer’s Market also gives faculty and students some variety in foods to choose from. Students wanting to learn more should search https:// wvumedicine.org/wellness/ programs-and-classes/farmers-market/. Any questions about the WVU Medicine Farmers Market should be directed to farmersmarket@hsc. wvu.edu or 304-293-1819.
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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
To burn or not to burn: the Nike controversy BY SIERRA POWERS OPINION WRITER
Unless you have been living under a rock, you have probably heard of Nike’s new ad campaign and all the controversy that has erupted because of it. For the 30th anniversary of the famous phrase “Just Do It,” Nike decided to use former NFL player and famous kneeler, Colin Kaepernick, as the face of their campaign. Kaepernick became a household name in 2016 for kneeling during the national anthem. He started this kneeling controversy that became widespread among NFL players in protest of racial injustice in America. His simple action of kneeling has left America in an uproar, creating two sides of the argument. You are either kneeling with Kaepernick or you are standing in disgust watching. Among Kaepernick’s haters, there are lots of military veterans. According to The Undefeated, a sports and pop culture website, many people say Kaepernick has a “lack of patriotism.” I feel Kaepernick, under his First Amendment rights, has the freedom to do whatever he pleases during the
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Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started the trend of kneeling during the national anthem as a form of protest for civil rights in America. anthem. I don’t believe he is disrespecting the armed forces; I believe he is protesting the disrespect minorities receive in America. Kaepernick himself, in an interview in the New York Times, said “Once again, I’m not anti-American, I love America. I love people. That’s why I’m doing this. I want to help make America better.” Whether this campaign left your opinion of Nike
unchanged or made you want to burn your workout clothes, there is no doubt that this campaign was a smart business decision. On Sept. 5 when the campaign was released, the Nike stock closed at $79.60 but as of Sept. 14, the stock closed at $83.49. According to a Fox Business article, Nike’s shares have reached an “all-time high” even after the backlash of their campaign. I hope
the people who are burning their Nike shoes and clothes realize that destroying apparel they have already paid for doesn’t affect Nike at all. So, while I sit here writing my article in my Nike leggings, maybe the anti-Nike crowd should go donate their unwanted clothes to a homeless shelter, where someone would happily take any clothes they can find. Now that is justice.
Competition is key: alternatives to paying high prices for textbooks SUBMITTED BY THEODORE STACKPOLE FRESHMAN FINANCE STUDENT
Recently, I read an opinion article in the Daily Athenaeum by one Seth Mitchell, titled “iGotRobbed: the price students pay in order to attend college.” The article raised the concern that many materials sold by the WVU bookstore, such as the iClicker, are incredibly overpriced, which is an opinion that myself and many others on this campus share. I was happy to find that there are those willing to bring attention to the issues and raise awareness through the campus news media and through a creatively-worded and entertaining article to boot. But my reason for writing this piece is because, while the article I read brought forth information on the problem, what I found lacking was a comprehensive solution to the issues at hand. Perhaps articles such as these can place pressure on the University to lower prices or alter their business practices, but I feel that this kind of pressure may not be
nearly enough. What is necessary to facilitate a meaningful change in the price of their wares is action by the students who consume the bookstore’s products. And when the bookstore throws you a bad deal, the best way to convince them to give you a better offer is to give your patronage to their competitors. You may say, “How can I do this? What are my options? Where am I going to find the time to visit competing stores when the campus store is closer?” Luckily for all of us, there are answers to these questions that can work for us students in most cases. First, a search on Google can provide you with a number of options for various booksellers in Morgantown, many with good reviews and some reviews which explicitly mention prices and service quality above that of the WVU Bookstore. A Google search will also provide anyone interested with a map of where these stores are located and how to reach them. Secondly, many options exist online for the meticulous shopper. Data and cur-
rent events have shown that online sellers are not only highly competitive, but that they can in many cases, outpace and outmaneuver their counterparts who operate primarily out of physical locations. Amazon, Chegg and others market themselves as a cut above the rest by attempting to offer prices lower than competing stores and tend to have reliable and quick deliveries a majority of the time. And for those who are looking for supplies, Amazon and retail stores such as Office Depot offer online orders and delivery of materials at reasonable prices right to your location. Thirdly, an increasing number of textbooks are becoming accessible to students in digital formats, usually with access coming directly from the makers and publishers. Pearson, who provides the materials for the Computer Science 101 course, offers online access to the materials for nearly $60 less than the cheapest package currently listed on the bookstore website. I was able to get a .pdf file of my Psych 101 text-
book entirely for free. The McGraw-Hill site saved me $10 on a digital business book and additional materials when compared to the campus bookstore, and while that may not seem like a huge amount, every penny counts when you’re a college student. So, if you’re a student who’s fed up with the bookstore, if you’re tired of overpriced materials and you want to try and change the situation, then the best place to start is to be a resourceful consumer and make use of every other option on the market. And even if the campus bookstore stays the same as it always is, then at least you’ve saved yourself some money and troubles. And if the University is really as greedy as some would make them out to be, then they’ll be more likely to change pricing to meet our needs than to lose our business altogether. “The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.” – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States.
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Pros and Cons of WVU not playing on Saturday BY MATTHEW GOLD ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
FOOTBALL The West Virginia-NC State football game on Saturday in Raleigh was cancelled due to Hurricane Florence. The two schools and athletic departments tried everything they could in order to get the game in, but nothing materialized and it does not seem like it will be made up. Of course it would have been ideal for WVU to play, but having an early bye week may not be all bad for the Mountaineers. PROS: Moving up in the rankings Then-No. 7 Auburn lost on a last second field goal to then-No. 12 LSU, and then-No. 6 Wisconsin lost at home to then-unranked BYU. LSU will still be ranked ahead of the Mountaineers because they own a 3-0 record and have two wins over ranked opponents (Miami and Auburn). But the losses to Auburn and Wisconsin helped WVU jump in the rankings from No. 14 to No. 12 even
without playing. WVU did not crack the AP Top 10, but could be there next week. The fact that the No. 8 team, Notre Dame, did not look too good in their 22-17 win over Vanderbilt, helps too. CONS: Grier’s Heisman chances could be hurt WVU quarterback Will Grier is no doubt one of the contenders for the Heisman Trophy. Grier is off to a great start through two games, as he is completing just under 80 percent of his passes to go with 761 yards and nine touchdowns with only one interception. Only playing 11 games- potentially 12 if WVU makes it to the Big 12 Championship Game- could hurt his chances at winning college football’s most prestigious award. The voters may look at Grier’s body of work and discount it a bit because of playing one less game than other contenders. But if he keeps putting up the kind of numbers that he has been, playing one less game should not make a difference. PRO: No injury risk West Virginia has had the in-
jury bug bite them already this season. In the first game of the season, WVU lost starting linebacker Charlie Benton for the season with a knee injury. In the second game, there was a scare as freshman running back limped off the field. Head coach Dana Holgorsen downplayed the injury as nothing serious. It is important for the Mountaineers to stay healthy, as they have a deep group of running backs and cannot afford to have one go down with a serious injury. CON: Loss of a game against a good football team Playing at NC State would have been a good test for the Mountaineers the week before Big 12 play starts. The Wolfpack are a quality football team and this would have been a true road game for WVU. After playing a neutral site game against a very mediocre Tennessee team and then a home game against an FCS opponent, playing a game on the road against a pretty good team in the ACC would have been a nice measuring stick game for WVU before conference play starts up next weekend.
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Toyous Avery during West Virginia’s game against Youngstown State.
WVU beats Penn, Wake Forest to sweep Mountaineer Classic BY ANDREA WARNER CORRESPONDENT
VOLLEYBALL West Virginia swept the University of Pennsylvania in their second game of the Mountaineer Classic tournament. Lindsay Proctor got the Mountaineers on the board early in the first set of the match with an ace. Defensive specialist Alexa Hastings matched with another ace, putting WVU up 7-2. Penn answered with three straight cutting their deficit to three (11-8). A trio of kills put an end to Penn’s scoring run. A kill from Kristin Lux put WVU at 20 (20-11). The Mountaineers reached set point at 25, posting 12 kills for a .435 hitting percentage in the first set. In the second set both teams traded points early on. WVU took the lead 9-7 off a Quaker ball handling error. Freshman Lacey Zerwas advanced the Mountaineers lead to 11-8 with an ace. Lindsay Proctor served up her second ace of the day taking the lead 13-9. The Mountaineers reached set point at 25 following a Penn attacking error 25-17. WVU, hungry for the sweep,
went into set three with a 2-0 lead. WVU came out strong in the third set with a 4-0 lead following back-to-back kills. The Quakers kept the set close with a 4-0 scoring run, tying it up at 6-6. Kristina Jordan put down a kill giving the Mountaineers a 14-13 lead. Katie DeMeo got the Mountaineers to 20 with a kill. Penn scored two straight taking the 21-20 advantage. Lux put WVU ahead with back-to-back kills (22-21). Mountaineers racked up three straight to reach set match and point 24-21. Marielena Somoza hit an ace for the 3-0 sweep. Lux, a freshman outside hitter, finished the match with 13 kills for a career high hitting percentage of .579. The Mountaineers faced off with Wake Forest in their third game of the tournament on Saturday evening. There was a lot of back-andforth in the first set until Wake Forest scored three straight to take the lead 9-7. WVU answered with four in a row including an ace from Lacey Zerwas, giving the Mountaineers the 11-9 lead. Wake Forest capitalized off a pair of WVU miscues tying up the set. The Demon Deacons took the lead following a
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Natania Levak celebrates a point against Penn. kill and a Mountaineer attacking error (18-16). DeMeo tied up the set with back-to-back kills 23-23. DeMeo kept the blocks coming giving WVU the first set victory 25-23. Wake Forest took a 15-12 lead midway in the frame. Back-to-back points from the Demon Deacons increased their lead 20-14. The Mountaineers scored three in a row including an ace from Somoza. Wake Forest took the second set off a WVU service error 25-20.
WVU used a pair of scoring runs to take the early lead in the third set 8-2. A trio of Mountaineer kills extended the lead 11-3. Jordan hit an ace to start a five point scoring rally (16-9). Wake Forest scored four in a row to cut WVU’s lead to 16-12. DeMeo got her fourth block of the night bringing the Mountaineers close to set point. Katelyn Evans found the floor as the Mountaineers take the set and the 2-1 lead in the match. Sophomore Ava Richards
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Kristina Jordan during WVU’s win over Penn. hit the fifth ace of the match taking the lead to 9-7. Backto-back Demon Deacon attacking errors increased the Mountaineer lead 13-10. A Wake Forest service error brings WVU to 20 (20-17). Two
service aces hand WVU the set and match 3-1. The Mountaineers will be back on the court Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the Coliseum against Iowa State for their first Big 12 game.
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WVU tunes out Red Flash, wins 2-0 BY JARED SERRE SPORTS WRITER
WOMEN’S SOCCER Coming off of a win against Boston University this past Thursday, the WVU women’s soccer team was able to sweep its homestand as it defeated Saint Francis, 2-0, on Sunday afternoon. Right from the kickoff, WVU (4-2-3) came out aggressive. Despite not scoring in the first half, the Mountaineers were able to get off 15 shots—three of which were on goal. The first score of the game came off of the foot of senior forward Sh’Nia Gordon in the 70th minute. The Mountaineers were able to add an insurance score not too much later as freshman forward Alina Stahl was able to connect with freshman forward Jordan Brewster for a goal. The Red Flash (2-6-2) was unable to overcome the deficit and ultimately lost the match. “You have to give a lot of credit to Saint Francis – they did everything they could to disrupt us,” Mountaineer coach Nikki Izzo-Brown said postgame. “At the end of the
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Sh’Nia Gordon charges towards the goal during WVU’s win over St. Francis. day, we’re going to take this win as we move into conference play.” Outside of the two goals, many other Mountaineers contributed a strong offensive effort. Sophomore forward Lauren Segalla led the team with six total shots, while senior forward Hannah Abra-
ham added five of her own. Three Mountaineer players (Gordon, Addison Clark and Grace Smith) tied to lead the team in shots on goal with two. Defensively, junior goalkeeper Rylee Foster and the rest of the WVU defense was able to hold St. Francis to zero shots for the whole match. This is the second match in a row in
which the opposing team did not get off a single shot. This was the Mountaineer’s fourth defensive shutout of the season, as well as the team’s second consecutive shutout after holding Boston scoreless in WVU’s last match. Up next, the Mountaineers open up Big 12 Conference play as they travel to Lubbock,
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Sh’Nia Gordon celebrating with fans over West Virginia’s win over Boston University. Texas to take on the Texas Tech Red Raiders on Friday. In the last matchup between the two
teams, they battled to a 1-1 draw in Morgantown.
WVU hockey team breaks ice for 50th season BY SEAN TANSKI CORRESPONDENT
HOCKEY The West Virginia Mountaineer hockey team broke ice on the season Saturday for its 50th season, but lost in heartbreaking fashion to Duquesne, 3-2, in overtime. In what was a hard fought game, WVU started off hot when Eric Keefe scored with nine minutes left in the first period. The Mountaineers kept up the pressure with another goal by JP Sawyer five minutes into the second period. The momentum changed, and West Virginia wouldn’t score again. The tides turned 28 seconds later when the Dukes’
PJ Breslow cut the deficit in half with Duquesne’s first goal. Then in the third period, the Dukes tied the game when Martin Hubert sneaked the puck into the goal with 15 minutes remaining. WVU had some opportunities to retake the lead but couldn’t capitalize on those chances. They had a power play when Duquesne’s Stephen Delia was charged with a hooking penalty and was sent to the box. The Mountaineers hurt themselves with seven minutes left in regulation when a cross checking penalty was called on Jamie Shuttner. WVU had another advantage to capitalize on a cross-checking call with 1:09 remaining in regulation when Devin Rosato of Duquesne was charged. The Mountaineers couldn’t
capitalize on the final power play opportunity. The ice then seemed to crack on the Mountaineer’s dreams of a season opening day victory when overtime started. The Mountaineers’ kept pace for the first half of the second period, but couldn’t score on the Dukes’ defense. The Dukes, however, could score on the Mountaineers‘ defense. Hubert scored the winning goal, which was his second of the game. The overtime loss marked the first game for new Mountaineer head coach Steve Cagle, who came to Morgantown from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The Mountaineers will be back home next Friday against Temple to try and pick up their first victory.
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Tyler Richardson faces off against Slippery Rock in January in Pittsburgh.
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WVU men’s soccer wins against St. Francis
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Action during West Virginia’s win over St. Francis.
Joey Piatczyc celebrating during West Virginia’s win over St. Francis.
Rushawn Larmond flexin’ on ‘em during WVU’s win over St. Francis.
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