Country music star Josh Turner performed in the Hooper Eblen Center on Feb. 27 to a crowd of more than 7,000. Turner was joined by special guests Eric Paslay and Brent Cobb for the concert.

“Back in the fall, SGA executive offi cers met and decided which genres would be chosen for the students to vote for,” said SGA Secretary Daniel Tribble. “This semes-ter’s genre was originally la-beled as ‘other’ allowing for a genre to be repeated or a new genre selected, all deter-mined by the students’ vote. With the help of the SOLO Band Selection Committee, we selected bands that were in our budget and available to come on the possible dates we had open. Josh Turner was one of the fi nal selections on the list of country bands and won.”

Turner has produced fi ve platinum-selling al-bums that have earned him GRAMMY, ICMA, CMA, and ACM nominations. Turner’s unique baritone voice and chart-topping hits have set him apart from other country music artists.

“We have completely re-worked our show and set,” said Turner. “We’ve thrown in new video content that is interactive with the crowd.

We intentionally create our show so that it is energetic and entertaining no mat-ter where we go. I’m pretty proud of where we’re at.”

Originally from South Carolina, Turner moved to Nashville in 1998 to further his career in music at Belmont University.

“While I was at Belmont, I was still trying to fi gure out my style and my sound,” said Turner. In 2003, he re-leased his fi rst debut album, Long Black Train, through MCA Nashville Records.

Punching Bag, the latest record released by Turner in 2012, includes hits such as “Time is Love” and “Find Me a Baby.” Singles from other albums have reached the top ten on various country music charts, including “Would You Go with Me,” “Firecracker,” and “Why Don’t We Just Dance.”

Unlike most artists, Turner keeps his family with him while he is on tour. His

wife, Jennifer, plays the pia-no and sings backup during shows.

“We’ve realized we work better as a team,” said Turner. “When we started having kids, of course they came with us. We’ve evolved into this traveling family.”

Special guest Eric Paslay is a new and upcoming artist with his new album just re-leased on Feb. 4.

“Eric actually went to school with my brother at MTSU, so we have watched him go from a struggling star and college student to an artist,” said Turner. Paslay has previously opened for Eli Young Band, Little Big Town, and Jake Owen. He has co-written songs such as “Barefoot Blue Jean Night” by Jake Owen, “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” by Eli Young Band, and every song on his debut album. Brent Cobb, the second special guest of the concert, is currently on his 2014 promo-tional tour with HD Radio. Cobb was signed by Carnival Music in Nashville as a song-writer in 2009. He has written songs such as “Rockaway” by Kellie Pickler, “Tailgate Blues” by Luke Bryan, and “Go Outside and Dance” by Eli Young Band. Cobb has recently recorded his fi rst EP collection as an artist himself to sell at his shows.

March is Women’s History Month and Tech has scheduled a variety of events to com-memorate the signifi cance of women. Diana Lalani of the Women’s Center and Robert Owens, Director of Minority Affairs, each have opportunities for students to choose how to educate them-selves about the generations of women who have impacted change, growth, pioneered in science, the envi-ronment, medicine, impacted the course of business, labor, politics, religion and women’s rights.

Beginning Monday, March 3 through Friday, March 7 there will be an exhibit in the RUC fi rst fl oor lobby featuring an extensive collection of Women’s History posters chronicling information over the past several decades. Passerby’s can pick up pam-phlets or take quizzes for test-ing their women’s awareness knowledge.

There are two documen-taries to choose from being shown on Tuesday, March 4 and Tuesday, March 18, both at the dead hour in the lounge area of the Offi ce of Minority Affairs on the 2nd fl oor of the RUC. The fi rst is a historical feature about Ruby Bridges who dared to in-

tegrate into a white populated school. The second feature is a controversial fi lm entitled Dark Girls exploring the deep-seated biases and attitudes about skin color.

Also on Tuesday, March 4 at 7 p.m. in Derryberry Hall the Women’s Center is present-ing a fi lm about Eve Ensler’s play the Vagina Monologues. Mark Creter from the Backdoor Playhouse is compiling some highlights of previous Tech Players presentations of the Vagina Monologues to be shown after the documentary. This program is sponsored by the Tech Players and Alpha Psi Omega Dramatic Honor Society and there is a $5.00 charge that will be donated to Genesis House of Cookeville.

Lalani said that the last two programs of the month will con-tinue the theme of Celebrating Women of Character, Courage and Commitment. Both events are in Derryberry Hall at 7 p.m. on each respective Tuesday, March 18 and Tuesday, March 25. Beverly Watts, Executive Director of the Tennessee Humans Rights Commission, will share memories of her life as an African American wom-an coming of age in the Civil Rights era.

The fi nal event is pre-sented by Dr. Kathryn Pearson, Associate Professor at University of Minnesota. Dr. Pearson will speak about the challenges for women political candidates and women who are already serving in elected offi ces.

Tennessee Tech students from the Model United Nations Team traveled to St. Louis, Mo. for the 54th Midwest Model United Nations Conference in February.

Model United Nations is a simulation of the actual United Nations. Teams of college stu-dents travel to these confer-ences and take on identities of countries. Delegates from each country meet in different com-mittees to propose ideas, then discuss and debate topics on current international issues. Delegates then write resolu-tions and present them to a Model UN General Assembly. The resolution is further debat-ed before the assembly votes on resolutions.

Tech proudly stood out at the MMUN conference, rep-resenting the United States of America. Students worked for months on their topic be-fore traveling to St. Louis, then worked with other delegates for at least 15 hours a day.

Tech’s MUN teams brought three awards home: Honorable mention, Outstanding Delegate, and Outstanding Paper Award.

Instructor of MUN, Dr. Jennifer Anderson, said, “MMUN is a competitive con-ference with about 40 universi-ties and 500 students vying for a limited number of awards, and it was only our second time as participants.”

Tech placed fi fth out of 40 other schools that attended the MMUN conference.

Rhendi Mitchell won theHonorable Mention Award herfi rst time in MUN for her workin the World Food ProgrammeCommittee. In this committee,delegates worked to come upwith a potential solution for theissue of Global Food Securityand the issue of malnutrition

throughout theworld.

“It was agreat learninge x p e r i e n c e , ”Mitchell said“Not only did Iget to learn how

to work better with people whohave different views on how todo things, but I also learned howthe United Nations works.”

Andrew Jefferies, presi-dent of MUN, won theOutstanding Delegate Awardand Outstanding Paper Awardfor his work in the SecurityCouncil. The Security Councildoes its job by promoting worldpeace and security. This com-mittee tackled the topics ofNorth Korea, terrorism, andnuclear weapons.

“Our biggest achievementwas global nuclear disarma-ment, which was secured inthe end of the conference,” saidJefferies. “Overall, we were toldby the president of the SecurityCouncil that we were the fi rstSecurity Council to pass sub-stantive resolutions on all threetopics and a crisis.”

Anderson said, “I’m excit-ed to continue to build our teamthrough experiences like MUNWe hope to compete at a nation-al conference sometime duringthe next academic year.”

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Facebook recently banned Randy Davis, a Christian, for supposedly posting “hate-speech” on his page.

The message he re-ceived notifying him he was banned stated “violated the site’s policies and would temporarily be blocked from using the platform.”

His article was actually just a call for Christians to stand up and fi ght against the evil of our day.

He pointed out where the Bible calls homosexual-ity a sin and how Jesus died to help deliver people from their sins.

“Hate-speech” is de-fi ned outside the law as speech that attacks a per-son or group on the basis of race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. If you were to read his post with an open mind, like we are asked to with everything at this liberal college, you wouldn’t be able to read it as hate-speech.

If you have a prob-lem with someone’s post, just hide it.

For those of you who didn’t know, Facebook has this little button on every profi le update you see on your newsfeed that lets you hide someone’s status.

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Thank God we are not in Kansas anymore!

I’m sorry, Tennessee. I spoke in haste. You are NOT the most ridiculous state in the union, nor the one with the most INSANE laws. Where Tennessee pushed “Turn Away the Gays” back into commit-tee, where it will hopefully die, Arizona has let it go be-fore the governor. But more than Tennessee, more than Arizona, the crazy state has to be Kansas.

State Representative Gail Finney (Wichita-D) introduced bill HB 2699, which redefi nes spanking in the state of Kansas as “up to ten forceful applica-tions in succession of a bare, open-hand palm against the clothed buttocks of a child and any such reasonable physical force on the child

Facebook bans a Christian for “hate-speech”

You have the right to dic-tate what you see on your newsfeed.

If one of my so-called “friends” cusses on their post, I can hide it. Facebook will ask why and most of the time I honestly say it is offensive to me. Facebook doesn’t ask why. But, I will tell you it is be-cause of my faith. I won’t cuss and I honestly can’t stand listening to people who do. They just sound fi lthy to me.

I am not supposed to think on dirty things, so why would I want to look at someone’s cuss word in-fested post?

If I post one thing in opposition to one person, I hear about it for hours on end and eventually, I just delete the person’s posts.

But, when someone posts his or her personal conviction he or she has learned through his/her faith, he/she will get com-pletely banned by Facebook

because a handful of people said a post was offensive.

I fi nd it offensive when girls basically expose them-selves on a public site and they are never banned. So, why should a Christian be banned for calmly stating the facts from the Bible?

Because one person calls it “hate-speech,” it is taken down and the author of the statement is banned.

I happen to agree with Davis. Christians need to wake up and call sin what

as may be necessary to hold, restrain or control the child in the course of maintain-ing authority over the child, acknowledging that redness or bruising may occur on the tender skin of a child as a result.”

Are you kidding me? I can’t even right now.

Currently, the Kansas law regarding spanking for-bids corporal punishment that would leave bruises. This new law would pro-tect those poor parents who have left marks on their children to be distinguished from -- wait for it -- child abusers.

That’s right. This law would allow parents to hit their children hard enough to leave bruises but not be arrested as abusers. I’m sorry.... how is hitting your child HARD ENOUGH TO LEAVE BRUISES anything more than legal child abuse?

Riddle me that!According to the Wichita

Eagle, Rep. Finney has com-mented that “There are some children that are very defi -ant and they’re not minding their parents, they’re not minding school personnel...[this] tries to give a defi ni-tion. … But it does not allow hitting, punching, beating, because that is still consid-ered abuse.” NO SUGAR, SHERLOCK. All of those things leave bruises -- as spanking would also do un-der this law.

But also -- you have children who are “not mind-ing” the authority fi gures in their lives, and the answer is corporal punishment? Why wouldn’t you consider rea-sonably engaging the child to fi nd out why they behave thusly and then correct the behavior from there? Oh, you’re trashed because you thought it was cool? Hitting you is only going to make you mad and feel like a mar-tyr. Instead, let me tell you how much time and toilet paper cost in dollars and then make you clean it up. Much better solution.

I was truly spanked only once in my life. I was four years old. I went ex-ploring, on roller-skates, in the woods behind our house without telling any-one, and was missing for

four hours. Our entire fam-ily and neighborhood was in frenzy. What I remember most about the event was that I was punished – for not telling anyone where I was going – but each and every punishment was spelled out to me: you are going to get spanked be-cause you did this and we want you to know we are serious; you are going to bed without dinner because of this. Because every pun-ishment was explained to me, I learned to always tell my parents where I was go-ing. From then on, spank-ing wasn’t the punishment of choice, because I knew that my parents would ex-plain why something was wrong. There was no arbi-

trary punishment after that point. Whether or not, as a teenager, I agreed with their reasoning is entirely a dif-ferent matter.

Don’t take me wrong: sometimes a kid needs a swat on the hand or leg -- a single swat to keep them from touching the stove, running into traffi c, or turning over a display of Reese’s Peanut Butter Easter Bunnies in the middle of Kroger. You may not know this, but tod-dlers are PSYCHO and you can’t reason with them. There is a MARKED differ-ence though -- word choice intentional -- between a gentle smack for attention and spanking with the pos-sibility of leaving bruises. Studies show that time-out

is much more effective incorrecting behavior whilenot encouraging children touse violence to solve theirproblems. Even now, some-times I just need a time-outto keep myself from “actinglike a charlatan/agitator.”

I understand that eachgeneration is concerned that its successor is less disciplined, less ambitious,less considerate, whatever. There are hundreds of ar-ticles about “entitled mil-lennials” that speak to that.But, the answer isn’t to fallback on “Ol’ Reliable,”spanking, but to actuallytry and bridge the gap be-tween parent and child soeach can discover what theother thinks and what theiractions mean.

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it is -- sin. We are to judge what is holy and what is darkness.

The worst part is this: Christians’ rights are being taken away from them. We are being told we cannot voice our opinions or our beliefs anymore.

To be honest, Christians have been quiet for too long. This nation is getting dark-er and darker, and what to we do? We sit back and let people take our rights away and stomp all over us.

Enough is enough. Davis is right people! Don’t hate him because he has ex-posed your sin. Don’t get mad at me because I am ex-ercising my right to speak and write according to my beliefs.

I am writing this to in-cite the Christians on this campus to take a step up. We can’t remain silent any longer.

How many more Christians will be banned from Facebook because what we say doesn’t agree with the 3.2 percent of the population who claim to be in the LGBT community?

We have to stop catering to peoples wants and meet their true needs. Their need is more of the real Jesus, not the sugarcoated donut ver-sion many churches are giv-ing out.

Facebook doesn’t have

the right to dictate what wecan and cannot say whenit comes to our faith. Daviswas speaking the truth inwhat he said, people justcan’t handle the truth whenthey hear it.

I know many peoplewho read this will hate meeven more for this and Ihonestly don’t care. Hateme all you want, I won’t callyou Christian-phobic.

Know this, I will go tobed at night knowing I wrotethe truth. I will not fear thestorm about to come, be-cause I believe Jesus will bewith me. It also helps that Idon’t actually read the let-ters to the editor any more.

I call things as I seethem. I call black, black andwhite, white. I say Facebookshould apologize to Davisand let him back on. If theycan’t handle it, honestlythey should shut down.

I fi nish with this. I knowI am far from perfect and Ireally don’t want to be. Ihave massive fl aws and Itry to fi x them as much as Ican, but I can honestly say Ijudge myself on a daily ba-sis and always fi nd myselflacking.

So, I challenge you tojudge yourself according toa standard higher than yourown, see your fl aws andwork to fi x them.

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ENTERTAINMENT

By JAKE THREETEntertainment Editor

By KIMMY MANNINGEntertainment Critic

American Idol and Sony to battle it out in court

Editor’s predictions for the 86th Annual Academy Awards

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2013 was one of the best years in a very long time at the movies and award season has been crazy good this year.

The Oscars is the biggest stage of them all and the greatest award an actor can receive. This year’s ceremony is no cakewalk when it comes to predicting, but somebody’s got to do it and I’m ready to dive in!

Best Supporting Actress•Sally Hawkins- Blue Jasmine•Jennifer Lawrence- American Hustle•Lupita Nyong’o- 12 Years a Slave•Julia Roberts- August: Osage County•June Squibb- Nebraska

Should Win: This is a strong category, with impressive performances all around. I believe it should be between Roberts and Nyong’o, with Lupita edging Julia by just a smidge for me. Both gave outstanding performance

in their respective fi lms. Side note: My heart will always belong to Jennifer Lawrence and if she wins it will be happy.

Will Win: Based on awards season, it will come down to Lupita and Jennifer. Lawrence won the Golden Globe and BAFTA, while Nyong’o has won the SAG and Critic’s Choice. If I had to put money on it, I’m going with Lupita Nyong’o to win for her fi rst fi lm role ever.

Best Supporting Actor•Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips •Bradley Cooper – American Hustle •Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave •Jonah Hill – The Wolf of Wall Street •Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club

Should Win: Again, awesome group of nominees, but Jared Leto should win. No questions asked or concerns about it.

Will Win: Jared Leto has been unstoppable so far in awards season and he isn’t stopping here. His dedication to transform his body and his mind blowing performance

sealed this. Put it in the books already, the Thirty Seconds to Mars front man is about to be an Oscar winner.

Best Lead Actress•Amy Adams – American Hustle•Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine•Sandra Bullock – Gravity•Judi Dench – Philomena•Meryl Streep – August: Osage County

Should Win: Wow, what a group of nominees. I mean does it get any more talented? I’m going to be biased in this one though. Sandra Bullock gave the best performance of her career in ‘Gravity’ and I still get chills thinking about it. If it was up to me, I’d give her all of the awards. Side note: Emma Thompson was robbed of a nomination for ‘Saving Mr. Banks’!

Will Win: Cate Blanchett has won everything so far, and I do believe she’s not going to stop here. She and Sandra are so close as to who should win this award but it seems like this awards season, its Cate’s year. Honestly though, they are both hilarious and, either way, we’re going to get a great acceptance speech.

Best Lead Actor•Christian Bale – American Hustle•Bruce Dern – Nebraska•Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street•Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave•Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club

Should Win: This is an interesting category with an abundance of talent. I think either Leo or Matthew should take home the golden statue, but I am leaning more towards McConaughey. Side note: Tom Hanks was robbed of a nomination for ‘Captain Phillips’!

Will Win: DiCaprio and McConaughey both won Golden Globes for their respective fi lms, but since then it’s been all McConaughey and rightfully so. His dedication to turn his career around and focus on better roles has paid off, not to mention his extreme dedication and body transformation for the role of Ron Woodroof should be rewarded. Everybody get ready to say, “Alright, alright, alright,” because Matthew McConaughey is bringing

home the Oscar.Best Director

•Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity•Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave•Alexander Payne – Nebraska•David O. Russell – American Hustle•Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

Should Win: ‘Gravity’ was something out of this world visually and it was a mental roller coaster. I really cannot put into perspective how good this fi lm was and what it has done for the future of fi lm. Watching it, it literally felt like I was in the middle of space looking at earth while watching the events of the fi lm transpire.

Will Win: Alfonso Cuarón is the frontrunner and I do not see anyone getting in his way, no matter the talent that is on that list. ‘Gravity’ was just that good and he made it that way.

Best Picture•12 Years a Slave •American Hustle •Captain Phillips •Dallas Buyers Club •Gravity •Her•Nebraska

•Philomena •The Wolf of Wall Street

Should Win: I’ve seenevery one of these fi lms andall have been rewarded witha nomination deservingly so.This is the hardest category of the night to try and predict as it could go one of three ways. For me, I have to give it to‘Gravity’. It is just so hard tonot be consumed by that fi lm.

Will Win: This year’sbiggest award is simply a three-way race between ‘American Hustle’, ’12 Years a Slave’, and‘Gravity’. Truthfully, it couldgo to any three of them. All have won a major award forfi lm of the year already andthere is no clear cut favorite.If I were betting money onthis, although it would notbe much, I would go with ’12Years a Slave’, but ‘Gravity’may shock the world.

It’s sure to be aninteresting, fun night to say the least and I cannot wait towatch because I have threehours of my life to throw away.The 86th Annual AcademyAwards air this Sunday at 8/7central on ABC, and is hosted by the über funny and talentedEllen DeGeneres.

K e l l y C l a r k s o n , C a r r i e Underwood and other “ A m e r i c a n Idol” winners’ record label

is suing Sony Music for $10 million for misusing royalties.

The complaint was fi led in the New York federal court by 19 Recordings, a music company founded by “Idol” creator Simon Fuller.

“The suit focuses mainly on issues of accounting,” according to Entertainment Weekly. “The complaint accuses Sony of treating master recordings streamed on services such as Spotify as ‘sales’ or ‘distributions’ rather than ‘broadcasts’ or ‘transmissions.’”

By doing this, Sony is permitted to pay drastically less money than it should under the terms of its recording agreements.

“We did not want to have to fi le this lawsuit, but Sony left us no choice, so this became necessary to protect our artists,” Jason

Morey, 19 Entertainment’s worldwide head of music, said. “Our complaint lays out the claims in great detail. Everything we have to say about the case is set forth in it.”

Billboard said that Sony has been “systematically robbing them of millions of dollars in royalties” and somehow getting away with it for the past twelve years.

“Sony is among the larger music entities that have forged licensing deals with streaming services run by Spotify, Google and Apple,” according to Billboard, making it an even

bigger matter than before by tying in larger entities that rake in more profi t for Sony Music.

The allegations are reciprocated, though, and are creating a controversy on both ends. Sony Music claims in some cases they have overpaid 19 Recordings.

As this story unfolds and clutches its results in the New York federal courtroom, be careful as to where your money is going when you purchase that $0.99 song. Your artist may be receiving an nth of what you expect.

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Frost Classic bids better results

By ALLISON BOSHEARSBeat Reporter

BASEBALL

The men’s golf team traveled to Goodyear, Ariz. to compete in the Snowman Getaway tournament on Feb. 24 and 25. The team fi nished 12th overall in the fi rst com-petition of the season.

Illinois State and Air Force tied for the number one spot, both shooting 15 under par. The tournament was fi lled with numerous schools known for their ath-letic programs, including the University of Indiana and Gonzaga. Tech outperformed the two other OVC teams that participated in the Snowman Getaway, Murray State and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.

Lee Whitehead led Tech, shooting an impressive 65 in

his second round and fi nish-ing two strokes under par for the two-day tournament. Whitehead’s performance was good enough to land him the 12th best individual score out of 100 total participants.

This year marked the fi rst time Tech had competed in the tournament, which is de-signed to allow cold-weather schools to get a head start on their golf season by traveling west.

The men’s team, who was picked to fi nish fourth in the OVC preseason coaches’ poll, was able to gain valu-able experience against tal-ented opponents.

“When you play good in cold weather like we have had for the past month, and then you go somewhere with 80 degree weather, you can’t help but play better,” said

Mason Griffi n, redshirt junior from Oak Ridge. “That’s just how it is.”

Griffi n struggled early, but was able to fi nish strong, shooting a 77 in his fi nal round.

“Although the overall team fi nish is not what we hoped for, I was very ex-cited to see some low scores from several players such as Lee Whitehead and Adam Cunningham,” said Coach Brown. “We’re looking for-ward to getting back to prac-tice for our next tournament.”

The golf season is just getting started and the men’s team is set to compete in the Grover Page Classic during Spring Break, which is held in Jackson, Tenn.

Intramural basketball champions

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Last weekend, the Golden Eagles played fi ve games at the Frost Classic tournament held at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga where they went 4-1 in tournament play in three days.

The Golden Eagles be-gan the tournament on a high note, earning a 5-3 vic-tory over the Toledo Rockets on Friday. Tech opened up the scoring early with a one run lead after junior in fi eld-er Hannah Eldridge’s double allowed Kendall Hooper to score. Eldridge would bat Hooper in again in the third inning extending the lead to two. Tech would add three more runs to beat the Rockets 5-3, giving Tech its second win of the year.

The Golden Eagles also picked up a 6-5 win against Ohio on Friday. The Bobcats

were looking for their ninth straight win. Tech scored two runs by way of a throwing error by an Ohio infi elder. The Golden Eagles gained the lead 6-5 in the top of the eighth.

On Saturday, the team picked up another win against Campbell before falling to Northwestern State. In their meeting with Campbell, the Golden Eagles did not earn a run until the top of the seventh inning. The Golden Eagles were tied with the Fighting Camels until the ninth inning, when Tech scored two runs at the top of the inning. A fi nal de-fensive stand in the bottom of the ninth closed the game for Tech.

The Golden Eagles faced the Northwestern State Lady Demons Saturday afternoon. The Lady Demons lit up the stat sheet with 11 hits and nine runs. An impressive defensive performance by

Northwestern State held the Golden Eagles scoreless. TheLady Demons walked awaywith 9-0 tournament victory.They fi nished the tournamentwith a 1-0 win over Radfordon Sunday. SophomoreMadison Taylor’s homerunwas the only run scored.

The Golden Eagles soft-ball team will travel to EastCarolina for a three gameweekend series. The teamwill begin the series with adouble header on Saturday versus Conference USA’s East Carolina Pirates. The fi rst contest will begin atnoon and the Golden Eagles will return to action at 2 p.m.The series will conclude with a game on Sunday beginningat 11 a.m. The Pirates are cur-rently 8-4. The Golden Eaglesare 5-8 overall on the seasonwith nine home runs and a.222 batting average.

The Golden Eagles willbe back in action on March 1against Eastern Carolina.

By TRAVIS JOHNSONBeat Reporter

SOFTBALL

By ALYSSA ADKISSON Beat Reporter

The Tennessee Tech base-ball team is off to a hot start this season as it begin its 2014 season at 8-1 after defeating Lipscomb Tuesday afternoon.

On Tuesday, the Golden Eagles went head to head against the Lipscomb Bison, winning with a walk-off hit ending the game at 10-9. Senior Zach Zarzour took the Lipscomb win as a test for the Golden Eagles.

“It was a test of our char-acter to come back from large defi cits at multiple points in the game,” said Zarzour. “We stayed positive and believed in the talent we have as a team and got the job done.”

The Golden Eagles were down more than once with multiple errors within the fi rst four innings.

As the Golden Eagle of-fense started to catch, Zarzour batted fi rst in the bottom of the fourth, bringing in a six-pitch walk. Immediately fol-lowing, third baseman Daniel Miles hit a long ball to center fi eld, resulting in a base hit.

Tech was fi nally on the board after junior Dylan Bosheers hit a single to cen-ter fi eld and a hit by Jordan Hopkins brought in another run. Both David Allen and Jordan Parris brought in hits

in the fourth, putting the Golden Eagles at a 4-4 tie with the Bison going into the fi fth.

The Bison answered back with four more runs on fi ve hits at the top of the fi fth. In the bottom half, the Golden Eagles fought back, bringing in two hits to put the Golden Eagles at a two hit defi cit. After two runs by Allen and Hopkins, the match was tied at the bottom of the fi fth.

After an early hit at the top of the sixth, Lipscomb held the Golden Eagles at 9-8 throughout the sixth and sev-enth innings. With runners on second and third, Bosheers batted in Hunter Hudson off a 2-2 pitch deep to right fi eld. Bottom of the ninth with bas-es loaded, junior outfi elder Connor Godspeed hit a long fl y ball to right fi eld driving in the winning run.

Over the weekend, the Golden Eagles brought home the sweep after playing a four game series against the New York Institute of Technology Bears.

The Golden Eagles of-fense racked up a total of 55 hits against the Bears. Leading the Golden Eagles offense was junior David Allen, who went 3-for-3 in the fi nal contest, with three RBIs, two runs scored and one base stolen. Allen attributes the

four game win to the power-ful Golden Eagle roster.

“We have guys that con-stantly get on base and then other guys that can hit the ball harder than anyone else in our conference,” said Allen. “When our offense puts up double digit runs in the NYIT games, it takes a lot of stress off our pitchers, which, in turn, helps our pitchers dom-inate the opposing hitters. That was a major factor in our four game sweep.”

This weekend, the Golden Eagles will return to the diamond on Friday for a three game matchup against Big Ten member Northwestern at home.

The Northwestern Wildcats are 2-5 this season after a recent loss to Ball State.

The Golden Eagles are expected to start pitchers Chris Chism, John Gora and David Hess over the week-end against Joe Schindler, Matt Portland, and Reed Mason.

“I’m very excited,” Hess said. “They’re coming in with a good team that is look-ing for some big road wins. I feel that we are well prepared and as long as we go out and play our game, we should come away with some wins.”

The fi rst pitch is at 3 p.m. on Friday at Bush Stadium.

Starting the season off hot

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS- Brothers of Tau Kappa Epsilon (above) and sisters of Alpha Delta Pi (below) pose after winning their respective intramurals championships.

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