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Running With Sugar

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High school students honored for research University hosts annual science symposium

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5K PARTICIPANTS enjoy their donuts during the Dance Marathon Not-Fit 5k Saturday morning.

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Dunkin Donuts, brownies, cans of pop and high-fives were handed out at the finish line of the Dance Marathon Not-Fit 5K on Saturday morning.

Students, Bowling Green Dance Marathon participants, Greek Weekend volunteers and even dogs walked the perimeter of the Perry Field House to raise money for Dance Marathon’s main event.

Thomas Hamway, fundraising chairman, said the inspiration for mixing junk food with being active came from wanting to do something different.

“The Not-Fit 5K idea came from one of my core committee members,” he said. “I have never heard of something like this, so I thought it would attract different kinds of people.”

About 150 participants attended the event, raising $2,000 through donations and sign-up fees.

Participant Breezy Eichenauer, intervention specialist student, ran the 5K to support Dance Marathon and Greek Weekend.

“I haven’t participated in any previous BGDM events, but I plan on doing so in the future,” she said. “It was honestly a lot of fun.”

Eichenauer enjoyed the not-fit angle of the event.

“I loved the not-fit part. If it was a [regular] 5K I wouldn’t have done it,”

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5K RUNNER leads the pack Saturday morning in the 5K. The event raised $2,000 through donations and sign-up fees.

This past week the University served as home to the 52nd Annual Ohio Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, which brought together the state’s leading high school students, each tasked with presenting an original scientific research project.

Originating over 50 years ago, the JSHS Program was designed to promote, encourage and recognize the nation’s best scientific researchers at the high school level.

First place and the grand prize of a $2,000 scholarship went to Pallavi Lanka of Sylvania Southview High School.

“I’m really, really excited,” Lanka said. “I still can’t believe that I got first place because there were so many amazing projects this year.”

Lanka’s research tested a new potentially more efficient production method of algal biofuel, an alternative to fossil fuels.

“Overall, I’m so happy with this research field,” she said “It’s something which I really want to do in the future, so I felt like it would be interesting if I could start doing that.”

Lanka said her biggest inspiration is her high school science teacher, Blythe Tipping.

“I know how hard she has worked and I know how down on herself she has been,” Tipping said. “It’s torture for me because I’m saying the names and I don’t see her name and I’m like, ‘Oh, there’s no way first, no way first, because you see these presentations,’ and when it came across — it’s just — you’re so excited for the kids. It’s just amazing.”

“I didn’t think I had it in me,” Lanka said. “I’m really happy that my hard work and all my stress paid off this year.”

Also joining Lanka at that National JSHS will be second place winner Srinath Seshadri of Village Academy.

“It feels really good,” Seshadri said. “I’m glad I participated and it was a really fun experience.”

Seshadri won a $1,500 scholarship and will also be presenting his work at the next level. His research studied the cloning and sequencing of a particular gene that could be important to the future of bioethanol, another alternative source of energy.

“I’ve been working on the research for like three years

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College Student’s health linked with overall happiness

SING YOUR HEART OUT

By Lindsey Meyer Reporter

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GREEK SING participants perform their routine at the event Sunday night.

FALCONS’ SEASON COMES TO END The BG Hockey team drops WCHA semifinal game to Michigan Tech. The loss ended the Falcons season, failing to earn a bid into the NCAA Tournament.

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Since the end of the school year is slowly approaching, students that are graduating may be experiencing a mixed flood of emotions at the time. Some may be feeling sentimental about leaving the University and their friends, while others may be stressed to the max trying to get everything completed in their courses.

One of the main things to do in times like this in order to keep stress levels to a low is to be happy. It might sound simple enough, however, Simone Young, a doctoral intern for the University’s counseling center, said one of the top reasons students come into counseling is because they are unhappy and experiencing a lot of stress.

“I feel that so many different spheres in our lives are interconnected, and with each of those spheres is one common thing: being content,” said Young.

Young also said that not every moment in your life will make you happy; however, if you’re satisfied and keep an overall content mindset then this is all that matters. It can improve not only your emotional life, but also your mental and physical lives.

“It’s all about your frame of mind; if you look at things positively it will have an effect on your overall health,” said Deb Busdeker, director of the Falcon Health Center.

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“When I’m not happy I can’t really focus on academics and depending on the severity of it.”

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Many students may experience a lot of stress and may not know that it can affect their bodies in more ways than they think, stress doesn’t only affect your mind.

Busdeker said there have been studies that show that stress can cause you to be more susceptible to disease. The world is over-stressed right now and diseases are starting to rise.

“If a student is over-stressed it will affect all phases of their life. Students are becoming adults and with this comes new responsibilities and taking on new goals they’ve never had,” said Busdeker.

“When I’m not happy I can’t really focus on academics and depending on the severity of it. I may even skip classes,” said University student Jon Rafferty.

It is very important to keep a happy and healthy mindset for your overall health, especially when you are still young and

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DONUTS From Page 1 she said. “The not-fit [atmosphere] pushed me to run and I didn’t feel self-conscious.”

Meg Burrell, political science major, attended the event for to bring awareness to BGDM and enjoy a fun morning.

“It was a casual walk on a Saturday morning that anyone could come to,” she said.

Burrell liked the fact that participants were able to walk or run.

“It’s not summer, nobody’s ready for an actual 5K yet,” she joked.

Participants neared the finish line at the end of the event where Hamway spread words of encouragement and cake donuts.

“There were a lot of people that attended and it was a really good

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turnout,” he said.

Alison Doughty, BGDM director, also thought the event was successful.

“Everyone was smiling and happy the entire time,” she said.

Doughty said the Not-Fit 5K was the most successful 5K BGDM has ever held and the committee plans to build upon it for next year.

“I can see it being a tradition in the future for sure. Anybody could do it, everyone was welcome — no pressure,” she said.

Doughty said enjoyment is the basis for the active fundraising events.

“We try to look for more fun runs, last year we did a glow run,” she said. “[Hamway] discussed the NotFit idea for this year. We were all about it, who doesn’t love cookies and candy?”

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The Elem3nt dance team had their third annual showcase Friday night in 101 Olscamp.

Their showcase, “Late Nights with Elem3nt,” featured guest performances from fellow University students Malika Hunt and Kat, B.A.D Girls Crew, the BG High Flyers, Charisma Dance Team and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

The showcase included sensual dance, hip hop, jazz, modern and contemporary pieces.

It showed “all parts of us in one” and “covered all of the aspects of being an Elem3nt dancer,” said Kezia Reynolds, a senior double majoring in marketing and management information systems and president of Elem3nt.

The showcase was meant to show what the group did each year, and to bring in other dance teams from other schools, she said.

“We’re trying to give the campus a different perspective,” Reynolds said.

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now there are 14 dancers. Reynolds feels that true passion for the team is shown in the second semester.

“That’s when you realize … I can’t really do this, or my grades are dropping,” she said.

The group began in 2007 as Eccentricity; however, they realized the name was not something they wanted to stick with.

“We realized … you know, that’s not really a good name for us.

It didn’t really speak to us,” she said. “It didn’t really highlight what we do.”

The group felt the name Elem3nt “would be great, with a three in the middle” of the word to replace one of the E letters. Reynolds said.

The three in their name is not meant to exhibit something unique, it is to show a common ground between all 14 members of the group.

“We all have three things in common, we live, we love and we dance.” Reynolds said. “I think that’s the main thing that brings us together … as one.”

“That’s why we’re Elem3nt, ‘cause we share all the elements together,” she said.

Kezia Reynolds | President and Nadia Johnson, a nursing major, came to support Bradley’s cousin who was one of the performers.

Johnson said she had been looking forward to hearing one of Beyoncé’s songs, while Bradley said she wanted to see how “different the nine scenes” were.

When asked whether or not they would want to become part of Elem3nt Bradley and Johnson declined.

“No,” Johnson said. “It is not because we don’t like them, we just can’t dance. We have no rhythm.”

“Elem3nt is not for everyone,” Reynolds said. “It’s a big commitment, we practice three times a week.”

Originally there were 22 dancers,

HAPPY From Page 1 experiencing stressful times.

There are some habits that students can do to remain this way.

Young said to maintain the basics; to have a regular sleeping schedule of seven to eight hours a night, have a healthy diet, being active and getting outside — this will release endorphins and make you happy.

Busdeker said to keep hydrated or else your body

will become sluggish, and also to meditate. This helps your body and mind to relax and become at ease.

Also, one main thing that people may not think has an effect on being happy and less stressed is to keep up with their social life.

“Remain connected with family, friends and loved ones, develop your social life,” said Young.

Busdeker also said, “If you are around a negative person their energy could feed off on you, you need to stay around them less.”

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“The counseling center helps to find activities to make students satisfied and get them to a point where they can lessen their levels of stress … whether it is caused from their academics, family life, relationships, anything at all,” said Young.

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SPORTS Falcons’ season ends with loss in tournament

BG men’s basketball sets records but loses big

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A record-setting season for the Bowling Green men’s basketball season came to an end Saturday afternoon.

The Falcons fell to Canisus 82-59 in the second round of the Collegeinsider.com Tournament, finishing the season with a 21-12 record.

Their 21 wins are the most since the 2002 team won 26.

But despite the records and wins the team has brought the program, this year senior forward Richaun Holmes said that right now it is hard to see.

“Right now in the moment it is kind of hard to look back,” Holmes said. “I’m sure a little bit from now we will be able to reflect back and look at some of the good things we have done.”

The Falcons have done some good things, but right now the talk will be about what Jans called a “borderline uninspiring” effort.

“Certainly it wasn’t one of our better efforts,” Jans said.

Effort wasn’t the only thing that lacked from the Falcons.

There was also a lack of shots falling for the Falcons, who shot 33 percent from the field [19-56] and 20 percent from behind the three-point arc.

“We didn’t make shots,” Holmes said. “We had some good looks, had some bunnies at the rim.”

For the Falcons, who never lead in the game, they trailed 13-3 four minutes into the game.

Sadly for the Falcons, it got worse before it got better.

They went into halftime trailing 38-25, but the Falcons came out of the half with more energy.

They went on a brief run of their own cutting the Canisius lead to seven, but that is the closest they got.

It took Canisius one minute to push their lead back up to double digits. From there it was the Griffs’ game to lose as they pushed their lead to as much as 26.

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BG GYMNASTICS LOSES

The Bowling Green gymnastics team finished fifth of seven teams at the MAC Championships. The full gymnastics recap can be found online at BGNEWS.com.

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TOMMY BURKE drops to the ice to make a save with action around the net in a home game at the BGSU Ice Arena earlier in the season.

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Bowling Green hockey team loses in WCHA semifinal, season ends without NCAA tournament bid

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Despite finishing the season with an overall record of 23-11-5 and earning a trip to the WCHA Semifinals, the Bowling Green hockey team was unable to make it into the NCAA tournament.

The Falcons lost to Michigan Tech 5-2 Friday night in the WCHA Final Five in Minnesota.

“We’ve put ourselves into that predicament,” head coach Chris Bergeron said. “We’ve left it in other people’s hands and there’s nothing we can do about that.”

In Friday’s WCHA tournament semifinal, Mitch McClain gave BG an early 1-0 lead in the first period with a goal. PierreLuc Mercier recorded an assist

on the play.

However, Michigan Tech answered with a goal less than two minutes later to tie the game. Then, they scored again to take a 2-1 lead into the first intermission.

After a scoreless second period, Brent Tate’s goal early in the third period tied the game 2-2.

Dajon Mingo and Sean Walker tallied assists on the goal.

“The feeling going into the third period was that we were going to win this game,” Bergeron said. “And then when we tied it at 2-2, it was a really good feeling.”

Ultimately, Michigan Tech scored three goals in the third period, including an empty-net goal to win 5-2.

The Huskies advanced to the WCHA Championship game on Saturday night, and lost to Minnesota State 5-2.

“We stress execution,” Bergeron said. “We had a game plan and we just weren’t able to get to that plan.”

Michigan Tech outshot BG 32-24 on the night. BG was held scoreless on the power play going 0-for-3, while the Huskies went 0-for-1 on the power play.

BG goalie Tommy Burke recorded 27 saves in the losing effort. This is the second consecutive year that the BG hockey team lost in the WCHA tournament semifinals.

Additionally, the team finishes with a 17-8-3 record in confer-

ence play and a 12-5-2 record at the BGSU Ice Arena this season. They will enter next season with a four game winning streak at home, including a series sweep in the first round of the WCHA playoffs against Northern Michigan.

The Falcons finished the season with 23 wins, which are five more than their win total last season. Last December, their program was ranked as high as sixth in the nation.

Friday’s game was the final one for seniors Adam Berkle, Dan DeSalvo, Connor Kucera, Ted Pletsch and Mike Sullivan.

The Falcons have improved their record every season under Coach Bergeron.

Baseball team unable to execute small ball, swept by Ball State

By Brandon Shrider Sports Editor

BRANDON HOWARD squares around for a bunt in a home game against Ball State at Steller Field this weekend.

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With a large crop of new players this season, the Bowling Green baseball team is learning to play as team.

After the first weekend of Mid-American Conference games, the Falcons are 0-3 [MAC] and struggling to execute the “small things.”

Ball State, regular season MAC champions a year ago and the coaches’ preseason pick to win the MAC West this season, had no issue taking advantage of the Falcons’ miscues over the weekend.

“All day today we did not execute like we need to. We didn’t get bunts down, hitand-runs, suicide squeeze, that’s just a lot of runs we threw away by giving up stupid outs and not being able to advance baserunners,” said senior shortstop Brian Bien. “[Ball State] did the opposite.

They capitalized, they had a lot of two-out hits that scored runs, and good two-strike hitting. That’s what great teams have to do to win and we’re not quite there yet.”

The second game of the series and the first of a Saturday doubleheader epitomized the Falcons’s season to this point.

BG jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning, but it couldn’t manufacture another run over the final eight innings.

In the second inning, Jesse Rait stole second after a 1-out single to left field. This preceded a Scott Baker balk advancing Rait to third.

But with Rait on third and just one out, Brian Bien was unable to execute a squeeze play, failing to get the barrel on the ball, leaving Rait out to dry for the second out of the inning. Bien eventually struck out swinging at a high pitch out of the zone.

Brandon Howard led off the following inning with a 3-2 walk, but Kory Brown flew out to center and Randy Righter ended the inning by grounding into a 4-6-3 double play.

“Until we buy into the ‘team’ concept and start executing like we’re taught to, we’re going to continue to struggle,” said head coach Danny Schmitz.

Ball State answered in the fourth inning.

After Alex Call led off the inning with a f lyout, Jason Link walked the next three batters to load the bases. Scott

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PEOPLE ON THE STREET “To Relieve stress, I pray because God is awesome and he can bring us through any troubles we have.”

What do you do to relieve stress during the semester? Why?

“I eat and watch netflix because it makes me happy.”

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“I go to bible study and the gym because they take my mind off the stress of daily life and rest my brain.”

“Hangout with friends because it helps me talk things out instead of holding it in.”

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Ok to enjoy trivial news sometimes, no need to always be serious In the small southwest Ohio town where we lay our scene, it was a hot July day in 2013.

Business was moving at a snail’s pace and I was bored to tears working behind the counter at McDonald’s when a friend’s mom came in.

Our first customer in over an hour was all atwitter.

“It’s a boy!”

For a moment, I just stared at her, a little horrified because, for crying out loud, her youngest was a senior in high school.

Then I remembered: The Royal Baby.

Prince William and Kate Middleton’s first baby, a cute little redhead they ended up naming George.

I had been glued to the TV watching their wedding several years before.

Just yesterday my homework break consisted of reading how Prince George and his mommy are spending some quality time together at a muse-

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um in London before the next baby is born.

A few weeks ago, social media went nuts about The Dress that divided us all. You know, the one that looked black and blue to some and white and gold to others. I debated with my friends and family about it.

I saw white and gold and was neither thrilled nor surprised to read the article that told me basically my eyesight is nothing to write home about.

When the Royal Couple got married, when Prince George was born and when The Dress hit the scene, many condemned the amount of attention those things received by society.

“All the problems we

have today,” they sighed, “and this is what we pay attention to? Losing faith in humanity.”

They have a point, but I am not so serious that I cannot appreciate the occasional triviality to break up the sad, scary news that keeps on coming.

All of this is part of humanity and the reason why I, myself, have not even begun to lose faith in it stems from the understanding that we are very f lawed creatures who also have the capacity to do great things and be courageous, upstanding individuals.

Yes, there is poverty, crime, hunger and ISIS. There are problems with education [don’t I know it] and woes of the economy. There are issues with gun control, immigration; you name it. Anyone who reads the news should be aware of that.

But here’s what else

there is: a choice on all of our parts to zero in on the misery in our nation and world and remain miserable or to enjoy a little more happiness or just plain silliness put into the world.

People have called me foolish for following the happenings of the Royal Family for a number of reasons: it’s not what we should be focusing on, I have never even met these people, why should we care about the elite who have tons of money?

It’s true that many things that capture the world’s attention are not important in the least and I think there is a reason for that: you have to have some levity.

There is a time and place for action and concern, certainly, but in my humble opinion, it is not all the time.

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Falcons lose 6-1 to Western Michigan, freshman Megan Miller rallies to win only match for Falcons in a number-one singles flight

By Kaleb Page Reporter

Friday began MidA merican Conference play for the 2015 Falcons tennis team as they took on the Huskies of Northern Illinois.

The Falcons took the match to Keefe Courts for the first time since September, and the transition to outdoor from the faster playing indoor courts was evident.

“It’s been hard to come back outside to play matches again,” said freshman Megan Miller.

“We’ve tried to practice out here [but] the transition was tough.”

Doubles action started off the day and saw the Huskies take that doubles point.

The duo of Arantza De La Torre and Mary Malkin took down the Falcon duo of Brittany Plaszewski and Sydney Seeley 6-0.

That was followed by NIU’s duo of Jennifer Gates and Evelyn Youel finishing off Antonina Farrar and Emily Witt 6-3.

With the doubles point in hand, the doubles action between duos Nelle Youel and Cristina Alvarez and Megan Miller and Harley Hutchinson was halted at 5-3.

In the match with Miller and Hutchinson, Hutchinson had trouble finishing going to her left.

Something she looked to correct moving into singles action.

In Hutchinson’s singles match against Alvarez saw that adjustment made and a win by the Falcon taking the match 6-4, 6-3.

“I brought my targets

MEN’S From Page 3 “We didn’t play the way I wanted us to play, we didn’t play the way we have played the majority of the season,” Jans said. “I’m disappointed. We didn’t do a very good job of having them ready to play.”

This loss ends the first season in the Chris Jans’ era, as well as the careers of seniors Jehvon Clarke, Demarkeo Lyshe, Anthony Henderson and MidA mer ica n Conference Defensive Player of the Year, Richaun Holmes.

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in and instead of aiming for the baseline I started aiming for the service line,” said Hutchinson.

“It actua lly worked out to my favor in my singles match.”

Falcon’s Witt and Pl a s z e w s k i joi ne d Hutchinson with singles victories on the day.

Witt took down Malkin 6-4 4-6 1-0 (10-4 tiebreaker), while Plaszewski defeated De La Torre 5-7 6-4 1-0 (10-8 tiebreaker).

The rest of the Falcon’s in action could not get the win, as Miller lost to N. Youel 6-3 6-2, Farrar downed by Gates 6-2 6-1 and Seeley defeated by Dekkinga 6-0 6-0.

Even t hough t he Falcons did split 3-3 with the Huskies that doubles point proved to be the deference as NIU walked away with the dual win 4-3.

“We have to control what we are doing, today was disappointing because we had our chances out here today,” said head coach Olga Elkin. “We played very well in singles today, but our slow start in doubles cost us.”

The loss was the teams’ first MAC loss of the season, and there was no time to let the loss affect the team as Sunday saw another MAC opponent waiting.

Su nd a y ’s m at c h took place indoor in Perrysburg as Western Michigan came down to face off with the Falcons.

The indoor event saw the Broncos take down the Falcons 6-1. The one point coming from Miller in her first flight singles

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match.

Miller trailed in both sets against Meika Ashby.

The score was 2-1 in the first set but Miller came back to win the set 6-3.

The next set saw Ashby almost force a 10-point tiebreaker but Miller found a way to win the set 7-5.

“Megan’s opponent is a very good player, and Meg really stepped up today,” said head coach Elkin.

“Megan got down in the second set, but never gave up. She came back and did a fantastic job to get the win.”

Even though coach Elkin saw an improvement in energy from Friday in doubles, Saturday’s results still went the way of the Broncos.

The WMU duo of Tracy Kuhle and Olivia Myers took down the duo of Farrar and Witt 6-0, Barbare Eristavi and Yuriko Ono defeated the Falcon duo of Plaszweski and Seeley 6-2 and the other doubles match was called as WMU already got the doubles point.

In singles Myers defeated Hutchinson 6-3 6-2, Witt lost to Eristavi 6-1 6-1, Plaszewski defeated

by Kuhle 6-3 6-3, Farrar downed by Ono 6-0 6-0 and Seeley defeated by Labina Petrovska 6-0 6-1.

“We are becoming much more competitive in spots in the lineup where we weren’t very competitive at the start of the year,” said Elkin. “They are working very hard and becoming more competitive in those matches, which is great to see, and great for the future.”

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Tyler then scored Jarett Rindfleisch on a sacrifice fly to left field.

Colin Brockhouse followed with the biggest hit of the day, clearing the bases with a two-out triple, taking a 3-1 lead.

This all but did the Falcons in, not only in the game, but for the weekend.

The Cardinals scored three more runs off of reliever Tony Landi in the eighth inning to win 6-1.

To begin the second game of the doubleheader and final game of the series, the Falcons looked on their way to pulling out a win.

Howard worked the count full before drawing a walk. He advanced to second after a pickoff attempt throwing error. Kory Brown walked in the next at bat, putting two runners on with no outs.

Righter then worked the count before f lying out to right center. Trey Keegan followed with foul out to the catcher on the first pitch.

Matt Smith was able to load the bases with a grounder through the third base, shortstop gap. But, Greg Basalyga flew out to center to end the inning, leaving BG with a zero.

“Those little things add up and that’s what happens, they go home with three W’s and we go home with none,” Schmitz said.

The Falcons scored a run each in the fourth and seventh innings, but it was not enough to top the two-run third inning and threerun eighth inning from the Cardinals. BSU won 5-2.

Ball State also won the first game on Friday, 7-0, after Zach Plesac threw a complete game shutout and blanked the Falcons.

BG finished with five errors, including at least one error in each game.

After getting swept by Ball State the Falcons have now lost their last seven games.

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Ohio’s final representative at the National JSHS will be Ethan Polster of Gahanna Lincoln High School. He won third place at OJSHS, earning a $1,000 scholarship.

“This is a great event and that’s pretty much exactly what I was going for,” Polster said. “I’ve worked for a long time on the project and it feels good to go here where there are lots of other people like you — present, get recognized for the research you’ve done.”

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