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Thursday, March 17, 2016
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Ole Miss sweeps GSU in weekend series
BRANDON LAGARDE
GSU Sports Media
The Grambling State baseball team suffered 15-2, 7-3,
and 6-1 losses to No. 13 Ole
Miss in a three-game weekend
series.
GSU played a double
header Sunday (March 13) due
to rain storms that pounded
northern Louisiana and Mississippi, leaving 1.33 inches
of rain in Oxford Friday and
Saturday, causing the postponement of Saturday night’s
scheduled game and forcing a
doubleheader Sunday.
Friday
night
Ole
Miss
(151)
pitcher
Brady Bramlett had 11
s t r i ke o u t s,
Nunez
and Ole Miss
took GSU
down 15-2 at Swayze Field.
In the second game, and
the first of Sunday’s doubleheader at the University of
Mississippi’s Swayze Field,
Grambling State got off to a
strong start.
Darien “Speedy” Brown
laid down a squeeze bunt and
used his speed to get on base.
With runners on first and sec-
Pitcher Caleb Nunez throws a fast pitch to an Ole Miss batter during one of the weekend games.
ond base, Rebels pitcher Chad
Smith bulked, Wesley Drain
and Brown advanced an extra base. Trey Bell stepped up
with a RBI single.
With the bases loaded
Brown stole home, and
Grambling State led 2-0.
Ole Miss settled down,
scoring the next seven runs,
enough to win the game.
Colby Bortles’ bat was still
hot from Friday’s win, going
2-for-3, including a solo home
run into left field. Ryan Olenek homered once.
GSU out hit the Rebels
9-8, with bases loaded in the
JOSHUA McCOY/Ole Miss Athletics
second and sixth innings Ole
Miss pitching and defense
showed why they are one of
the best ball clubs in the country.
Wyatt Short closed the
game for the Rebels, allowing
zero runs and one hit as he
faced five batters.
With the bases loaded in
the sixth, Bell stepped up again
with a RBI single to center,
Daniel Barnett scored.
Johan Mojica hit a pop fly,
and he was ahead in the count
3-0. Pinch hitter Andres Castillo went down swinging, and
Malcom Boyce. Short earned
both strikeouts in his relief efforts.
In the second of Sunday’s double header, GSU
third baseman Daniel Barnett
scooped up a ground ball and
fired it to second baseman
Larry Barraza for the third
out of the third inning.
Barnett then cruised to
second base after he crushed
the baseball down the third
baseline.
Barnett advanced to third
after a while pitch and Tray
Bell brought Barnett home
with a sacrifice fly ball. Barnett
scored the lone Tigers run.
In the fourth Barnett made
a catch in foul territory, then
squeezed the gap and threw a
dart two the second baseman
Larry Barraza for the force
out. In the fifth he showed his
patience in the batter’s box,
facing a 3-2 count Barnett took
the pitch and earned a walk.
Lady Tigers fall to Lady Hornets
in semifinal of SWAC tourney
BRE’ANNA JOHNSON
GSU Sports Media
Courtesy photo
Eleven students were among the Gramblinites who attended
the HBCU Summit recently in Jackson, Mississippi.
Recreation summit held
STAFF REPORT
An HBCU Summit was
hosted at the Walter Payton
Recreation Complex on Jackson State University’s campus
recently. The Summit was
a social event that aimed to
identify opportunities, challenges, and issues that Historically Black Colleges and
Universities face in the field
of collegiate recreation.
GSU’s Recreation and Intramural Center partnered
with the Kinesiology Department and sponsored 11 students to attend the Summit.
Attendees at the Summit,
held Feb. 24, were professional members of the National
March
Madness
in full
swing
SWAC representative
loses play-in game
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) —
Holy Cross has a losing record
— and a long-awaited win in
the NCAA Tournament.
The Crusaders beat Southern University 59-55 Wednesday night.
It was a sloppy game that
didn’t get tight until well into
the second half. Holy Cross
led by as many as 12 in the
first half, but a 9-0 run allowed the Jaguars to cut the
lead to 27-22 at halftime.
Southern started the second half with 7-0 spurt and
eventually tied it with 1:24 left.
Southern (22-13) earned
an automatic bid when it beat
Jackson State 54-53 in the
championship game of the
Southwestern Athletic Conference Tournament.
Intramural and Recreational
Sports Association.
Attending from GSU were
kinesiology professors Melissa
Russell and Yvonne Calvin; recreation/intramural staff member Marcus Kennedy; and kinesiology students Coi Duronslet,
Hal Mims, Chris Bethley, Darryn DeJohnette, Taneshia Morrison, Ryan Johnson, Candice
Newton, Angelo Eave, Trenton Scott, Traderric Ford, and
Whitney Marshall.
The event proved to be a
great opportunity for students
to receive internships, graduate assistantships and employment, in addition to building
a pipeline of emerging professionals in the field.
Grambling State University Lady Tigers (17-14; 13-5
SWAC) lost a Southwestern
Athletic Conference semifinal game, 64-50 Friday
(March 11) at the Toyota
Center, and head women’s
basketball coach Nadine Domond was disappointed but
Domond
proud.
“We walk in here with our
heads high because this is Neal led the team just as she
just the beginning,” she said did Thursday night, finishing
after her team lost to SWAC with 14 points and a couple
#1 seed Alabama State Uni- of rebounds.
Freshman guard and
versity’s Lady Hornets, the
same team that beat GSU SWAC Freshman of the
previously (March 5). “”these Year Jazmin Boyd finished
are just labor pains for what with 11 points and grabbed
we’re trying to do and to two steals. Shakyla Hill and
birth this thing into some- John’ea Thompson each added eight points.
thing great.”
The Lady Tigers’ steals
The GSU-ASU matchup
early
in the game gave them
was a good one in the first
half, with an explosive start momentum and an early lead.
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