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THE PACERTuesday, October 23, 2018 thepaceratac.com Vol. 50, No. 3

Page 3 - Arts and Entertainment: See photos from “Bell, Book and Candle.”

Page 4 - Sports: Read about recent games.

Page 2 - News: Read about AC students share their Halloween memories.

Angelina College recently hon-ored 32 Smith-Hutson Scholarship recipients at an honors banquet at Ralph & Kacoo’s restaurant.

According to Angie Cranford, AC scholarship coordinator, the scholarship program focuses on students who have academic po-tential and are unable to attend college without financial assis-tance. “The scholarship awards are for full tuition, fees and books for the student each semester as long as he or she is in good standing,” Cranford said, “has maintained the required 2.5 cumulative GPA and is enrolled as a full-time student (according to the program lined out in the student’s degree plan).”

Scholarship recipients from Lufkin are Angelica Cordero, Jose Cuc, Wendy Cuc-Hernandez, Kyn-dell Gore, Gloria Hunt, Elizabeth Matthews, Alicia Vazquez, Andrea Vidal and Chloe Vineyard.

Scholarship recipients from Di-boll are Hunter Mercer, Milneshia Phipps, Kylie Rodgers and Vanessa Terrazas.

Scholarship recipients from

Central include Dyana Buenrostro, Summer Durham and Maddison Hoose.

Other scholarship recipients are Ramsi Bently and Gary Thomas Jr. of Apple Springs; Cooper Bendy and Clay Thomson of Chester; Colton Lovell and Monica Vera of Corrigan; Jennifer Hernandez, Groveton; Jolie Cheney, Etoile; Bethany Cole, Houston; Jocelyn Johnson, Jasper; Brennon Davis, Kirbyville; Jose Mora, Lovelady; Makayla Ray, Nacogdoches; Ellen (Niki) Murray, Palestine; Gracie Thompson, Trinity; and Marcie Morris, Wells.

The Smith-Hutson Scholarship program was founded by a Sam Houston State University grad-uate, who anonymously, invests in the future of young people. Established at SHSU in 1996, the program has since expanded to An-gelina College, Stephen F. Austin State University, Lamar University and Lamar Technical Institute.

Detailed information about the application process can be found at www.angelina.edu/financial-aid.

Banquet honors scholarship recipients

First-year recipients include, front row, left to right, Colton Lovell, Cooper Bendy and Jose Mora; middle row, Jolie Cheney, Monica Vera, Kyndell Gore, Hunter Mercer, Gracie Thompson, Bethany Cole and Marcie Morris; and back row, Ellen Murray, Elizabeth Matthews, Andea Vidal, Milneshia Phipps, Gary Thomas, Angelica Cordero and Brennon Davis.

AC press photosSecond-year students include, front row, left to right, Vanessa Terraza, Dyana Buenrostro, and Jennifer Hernandez; middle row, Wendy Cuc-Hernandez, Summer Durham, Jaselyn Johnson and Ramsi Bentley; and back row, Gloria Hunt, Kylie Rodgers, Chloe Vineyard, Alicia Vazquez, Clay Thomson and Makayla Ray.

Photo by AC Press photo

Angelina College now offers a heavy equipment operator pro-gram. The first class began Oct. 1.

“I’m pleased to announce that we . . . have already enrolled 12 stu-dents, the maximum number for the class,” said Tim Ditoro, dean of Community Services, before the start of the class.

Students who successfully com-plete the program will receive a Heavy Equipment Operator Level 1 credential through the National

Center for Construction Education and Research. Students will learn to operate bulldozers, motor graders and excavators through using six heavy equipment simulators.

Three of the simulators were procured with a grant from Texas Mutual Insurance Company to provide safety-related training to the public. Three additional simulators will be provided by Workforce Solutions Deep East Texas and the City of Lufkin 4B

Economic Development Corpo-ration through a matching grant program of the Texas Workforce Commission.

The tuition cost of the heavy equipment operator course is $500; however, the grant from Texas Mu-tual Insurance Company provided $450 of this amount for students who enrolled in the first course.

For more information, call Angelina College Community Services at 936-633-5206.

Community Services offers new program

Keith Dover instructs Demarcus Adams on a heavy equipment simulator that will be used in the new heavy equipment operator program.

Photo by Brandin BrewsterMadison Hall, assistant Lady Roadrunner soccer coach, dunks Colin Wise during the Dunking’ for Domestic Violence event held outside the Student Center on Oct. 9 and sponsored by The Janelle Grum Family Crisis Center.

Photo by Jennifer BanksBusiness majors, Yosani Clay and Braxton Forman prepare their plates of food outside the Student Center at “The Beat Goes On” picnic celebrating AC’s 50th anniversary Thursday, Oct. 18.

Photo by Brandin BrewsterFormer AC student, Justin Mosley speaks about running for Justice of the Peace for precinct 2 of Angelina County, in front of the library during the stump speeches Thursday, Oct. 18.

50th Anniversary “The Beat Goes On”

Photo by Jennifer BanksCaleb Morgan looks on as Joshua Morgan represents the Republican party during the stump speeches outside the library Thursday, Oct. 18.

Stump speeches

4 The Pacer Angelina College Thursday, October 23, 2018

Sports

The Angelina College Lady Roadrunners launched a barrage of long-distance kicks during the match with Northeast Texas Community College Saturday, Oct. 6, connecting for 10 of them in a 10-0 blasting at Jase Magers Field in Lufkin.

From the opening kick, the Lady Runners were on the attack, attempt-ing several tries from long range

before Jerissa Grimes finally found the net with her first of three goals.

Along with the Grimes hat trick, AC got two goals each from Jasmin Keller and Sasha Moreira and a goal each from Bety Hernandez, Daisy de Boer and Bailey Bowers.

In a change of typical tactics, the Lady Roadrunners took nearly every shot from far outside the box. NTCC’s keeper thwarted a few,

including several on-target blasts from de Boer, but AC never let up in securing its fifth conference win – two full games ahead of the Lady Eagles.

The men’s game the evening of Oct. 6 was suspended because of lightning with NTCC leading 2-1 with 35 minutes to play in the match. No makeup date has been announced yet.

Lady Runners blast NTCC in 10-0 win

The Angelina College Lady Roadrunner soccer team picked up its game-winning goal from long distance on Sunday, Oct. 14.

AC’s Bailey Bowers blasted home a free kick from 35 yards out with 37 minutes elapsed in the first half, and the Lady Roadrunner defense repelled several ensuing LSU-Eunice attacks to squeeze out a 1-0 win.

Lady Runner goalkeeper Aubrey Pettett did a stellar job in the nets, saving several point-blank kicks in both halves of the match. Lady Bengal Katelyn Knowles very nearly put her team ahead on numerous occa-

sions, only to have AC defend-ers Bety Hernandez, Savannah Keziah and Bowers push back.

The Lady Roadrunner win capped a big weekend of AC soccer. On Friday, the Lady Runners held No. 1-ranked Navarro College to its lowest goal-scoring output in confer-ence play, only to drop a 2-0 decision to the Lady Bulldogs.

The Roadrunner men’s team lost a pair of tough ones, falling to Coastal Bend College 3-0 on Friday night and losing to Lar-edo College 3-0 on Sunday in a game suspended on Saturday because of lightning.

Angelina College’s Lady Roadrunner soccer team ex-tended its winning streak to five games with an 8-2 win Monday, Oct. 8 against Paris College, marking the longest such streak in program history.

The Lady Runners have av-eraged seven goals per game during those five games, and AC kept those numbers high on Oct. 8 with Jerissa Grimes accounting for a first-half hat trick for the second straight game and Stephany Lopez add-ing two goals.

Jasmin Keller, Kaitlan Mill-er and Gabriel Bradford also

found the net for the Lady Roadrunners, now 10-4, 6-3 on the season.

Grimes’ three goals lifted her total to 15 for the season. The Cypress Falls product struck her first goal with just four minutes elapsed in the first half, cap-ping solid ball movement from Bradford and de Boer to find an opening near the box. After a Bradford goal was waved off for an offside call, Grimes nailed another one just 20 seconds lat-er, and the rout was on.

In the later game, the Road-runner men’s team fell 3-0 to the Dragons.

Lady Roadrunner team beats Paris College

AC’s Jose Salazar, No. 7, captain of the men’s soccer team, takes the lead against the Coastal Bend College team on Friday, Oct. 12. The Cougars took the 3-0 win againts the Roadrunners.

Photo by Kaitlyn LePage

AC’s Gabriel Bradford, No. 12, maintains possession during the soccer match Monday, Oct. 8 against Paris College. The Lady Roadrunners set a program record with their fifth straight win, taking down the Lady Dragons 8-2 at Jase Magers Field.

Photo by Tyler Law

AC Photo pressBety Hernandez charges toward the ball during the soccer game Sun-day, Oct. 14 against the LSU-Eunice.

Soccer team squeezeswin from LSU-Eunice

ACPress photo

Angelina College’s Jerissa Grimes, No. 10, finds room to run during the soccer match against Northeast Texas Community College Saturday, Oct. 6. Grimes scored three goals to lead AC to a 10-0 win at Jase Magers Field.

The Angelina College Lady Roadrunner softball team will hold a fall mini-camp for young players on Friday, Nov. 16 under the lights at the Larry Phillips Family Sports Complex on the AC campus.

The camp is for players ages 12-18 and will focus on the fundamentals of fielding, hitting and base running.

Instructors will include AC coaches Mark and Barbi Mattson, who led the 2014 Lady Runners to the NJCAA Division I national championship, and members of the current Lady Roadrunner team.

Campers are asked to bring their own equipment, including tennis shoes for work inside the batting cages. The camp will run

from 5-9 p.m.The cost for the camp is $55,

and the deadline to register is Nov. 15. To view the registra-tion form, visit the Angelina College Athletics website at angelina.prestosports.com.

For further information, contact AC softball’s associ-ate coach Barbi Mattson at bmattson@angelina.edu.

Softball team to hold youth mini-camp

Arts and Entertainment Thursday, October 23, 2018 Angelina College The Pacer 3

The Angelina College theatre department revived “Bell, Book, and Candle” by John Van Druten Oct. 11, 12, and 13 in the Temple Theater.

This play was the first play ever performed by the theatre depart-ment at Angelina College during its inaugural school year 1968-1969.

The plot of the classic romantic play centers on a modern witch who falls in love and risks losing her powers.

After becoming a Broadway hit in 1950, the play was made into a movie in 1952 starring Jimmy

Stewart and Kim Novak. The cast members included

Lindsey Dobbins playing Gillian Holroyd, Cody Carter as Shephard Henderson, Cassidy Kelly playing Miss Holroyd, Riley Elledge as Nicky Holroyd and Sara Flowers as Sidney Redlitch.

Kary Raine, Angelina College theatre instructor, directed the play while Michelle Hill acted as stage manager and Blaze Steptoe was the assistant stage manager and run crew chief.

Other members of the crew in-cluded Meredith Taylor as scenic

designer and technical manager; Retha Power as costume designer; Taz Powers as sound designer; Noah Ashby as sound assistant and board operator; Alyssa Moss as electrics and LX board operator; Darbi Powers as properties master; Matthew Kitchens and Henry To-var as the run crew; and Andrew Reed, Angelina College theatre instructor, as lighting designer.

Before the performance on Saturday, Oct. 13, a reception was held in the Angelina Center for the Arts Gallery to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Angelina College.

AC theatre department presents“Bell, Book and Candle” play

Retha Powers and Cassidy Kelly try out a necklace backstage during dress rehearsal for “Bell, Book and Candle,” which ran Oct. 11-13.

Cody Carter, left, Sara Flowers and Riley Elledge rehearse their lines in Temple Theater for “Bell, Book and Candle.”

Riley Elledge practices his lines on stage for “Bell, Book and Candle.”

Sara Flowers relaxes on stage waiting for her cue to begin her lines for “Bell, Book and Candle.”

Photo by Moises Vazquez

Photo by Moises Vazquez

Photo by Moises Vazquez

Photo by Moises Vazquez

Director Kary Raine talks with Dr. Jimmy Tinkle, former Fine Arts Division director, during the intermission of “Bell, Book and Candle” Oct. 13.

AC Press photo

AC Press photo

Photo by Jennifer Banks

AC Press photo

AC Chamber Winds plays during a concert along with the AC Swingin’ Roadrunner Jazz Combo in Hudgins Hall Tuesday, Oct. 2.

Changing Lives Dance Studio brings its zumba class to the AC campus for Latin Dance Night Monday, Oct 1.

The AC Swingin’ Roadrunner Jazz Combo performs at the 50th Anniversary Musical Showcase and Reception on Saturday, Oct. 13 in the lobby of the Angelina Center for the Arts.

News2 The Pacer Angelina College Tuesday October 23, 2018

AngelinaCollege

Connections

Every Tuesday

Free lunch at BSM11 a.m.-1 p.m.

October

2-30 - “Robbie Lacomb: A Retrospective”, 6-7:30 p.m., ACA Art Gallery

25 - “Survivor Obstacle Course”, in front of

Student Center, 10:30 a.m.

27- Roadrunner Basket-ball vs. LSU-Alexandria, Shands Gym, 4:00 p.m.

29 - RAD (Rape Aggres-sion Defense) Class, Ac-tivity Center Room 118, WOMEN ONLY, noon

November

1 - Roadrunner Basket-ball vs. Victoria College, Shands Gym, 7:00 p.m.

6-21 - Graphic Arts Stu-dent Exhibition, ACA Art Gallery, 6-7:30 p.m.

7 - Rodrunner Basketball vs. McLennan, Shands Gym, 7:00 p.m.

13 - AC Swingin’ Road-runner Jazz Combo and AC Community Big Band Fall Concert, Hudgins Hall Auditori-um, 7:30 p.m.

14 - Lady Roadrunner Basketball vs. Cedar Valley, Shands Gym, 6:00 p.m.

15-17 - “Guys and Dolls”, Temple Theater, 6:30 p.m.

16 - Angelina Classic Lady Roadrunner Bas-ketball Tournament, Shands Gym, 5:30 p.m.

17- Angelina Classic Lady Roadrunner Basketball Tournament, Shands Gym, 2:00 p.m.

17- Roadrunner Basket-ball vs. Arkansas Bap-tist, Shands Gym, 4:00 p.m.

19 - Roadrunner Basket-ball vs. Uptempo Bas-ketball, Shands Gym, 7:00 p.m.

23-24 - Coca Cola Classic Basketball Tournament, Shands Gym

27-Dec. 11 - Visual Arts Student Exibition, ACA Art Gallery, 6-7:30 p.m.

28- Lady Roadrunner Basketball vs. McLen-nan, Shands Gym, 5:30 p.m.

29 - 5th Annual “Holiday, Hope and Honor”, AC Chorale and Friends, Temple Theater, 7:30 p.m.

What is your most terrifying or memorable experience revolving

around Halloween?

“I was driving to Kroger and saw a leg hanging behind a truck, and thought it was real until my husband told me it was a Halloween decoration.”

Fang PankratzNursingChina

“When I was 15 years old, I volunteered to be in a Hal-loween house. While partic-ipating, a kid hit me with his sword.” Christian PalosComputer scienceLufkin

“My brother threw up on me after eating all of our candy on a roller coaster.”

Lindsey Dobbins EducationColmesneil

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Editor:Jennifer Banks

Photographers:Jennifer Banks, Brandin Brewster,

Hector Castillo, Tyler Law, Kaitlyn LePage, Karen Machain,

and Moises Vazquez

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Hector Castillo, Tyler Law, Kaitlyn LePage, Karen Machain,

and Moises Vazquez

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Coordinator of Student Publications:Libby Stapleton

The Pacer is the official student newspaper of Angelina College and is published six times during the fall semester and six times during the spring semester.

Unsigned editorials are the opin-ion of The Pacer editorial staff and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of individual students, advisers or college administrators.

The staff encourages readers to write letters to the editor, which must be signed for publication.

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President’s house torn down

AC Press photoA bulldozer scrapes up the rubble from the AC president’s home on Daniel McCall, which was demolished because of irreparable problems. The house was built in 1967 for Dr. Jack Hudgins, first AC president.

AC Press photoThe Angelina College Police Academy takes part in an active shooter drill Thursday, Oct. 11 during a fire drill for Hudgins Hall, the Business Building and the Liberal Arts Building.

Jennifer Banks, editor of The Pacer, participates in the TCCJA live multimedia contest.

AC Press photo

Staff member Moises Vazquez shoots a mock car accident at TCCJA on Oct. 12 in Commerce.

AC Press photo

Staff winsawards

The staff of Angelina College’s student publications recently won five awards at the Texas Commu-nity College Journalism Associ-ation convention held at Texas A&M-Commerce.

Jennifer Banks, 2018-2019 ed-itor of The Pacer newspaper, won a first-place award for an envi-ronmental portrait of welding students, and Brianna Cryan and Kendall Hargraves won a first-place award for a magazine story package that appeared in the 2017 AC View magazine.

Three honorable-mention awards for The Pacer were also received, including Daniel Salinas for a feature photograph, Richard Hardesty for a non-photographic illustration, and Hardesty for a front-page design.

Two members of the staff, Banks and Moises Vazquez, attended the convention on Friday, Oct. 12 where they participated in the live multimedia contest in the morning and in workshops in the afternoon.

Texas Community College Jour-nalism Association’s members are two-year colleges with journalism departments that publish news-papers in print and/or online. Its convention always takes place in the fall at a four-year university whose journalism department agrees to sponsor the event.

Illustration by Gabriel Tovar

Happy Halloween from the staff!

REMEMBERthe last drop day to drop is:November 6