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Obie Trice is starting his Cheers to the Hangover tour with a stop in Muncie at Be Here Now on Thursday. The doors open at 8 p.m., and he will be performing at midnight.

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Obie Trice, partially notable for working with big hiphop names—like Eminem, Dr. Dre, Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.—and partially for surviving a shot to the head, is kicking off his Cheers to the Hangover tour with a stop in Muncie.

Trice will play at Be Here Now on Thursday. The doors open at 8 p.m. and Trice takes the stage at midnight, according to Be Here Now’s Facebook event page.

The event is $15 for people 21 and older and $25 for everyone else. The show is for 18 and older.

Trice was first signed to Shady Records in 2000 after several appearances in productions such as the movie “8 Mile” and Eminem’s “The Eminem Show” album.

Trice’s first album also included production from the “rap god,” with Eminem contributing alongside Dre, Busta Rhymes, Nate Dogg and Tony Yayo.

Trice will perform after seven opening acts starting with KAY05, Matt Foy and Phonomancer.

Foy said sharing a stage with an artist that has toured extensively, such as Trice, is always a “special opportunity.”

“That’s where we all want to be: … on tour getting paid to do what we love,” he said.

Other acts include L.A.M.E. Crew and Planet Boom Bap, both returning to Be Here Now to brandish their unique styles of hip-hop.

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Student Veteran Organization hosts holiday ceremony ALLIE KIRKMAN MULTICULTURAL REPORTER

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hen Lydia Holliday joined the U.S. Marine Corps after high school, her family was surprised.

The Ball State student and secretary of the Student Veteran Organization said they expected her to study, go to school and graduate from college.

“My family is Hispanic and they don’t believe in women serving,” Holliday said. “I don’t believe in traditional things, so I broke the stereotype of my home and did what I wanted to do.”

In honor of those who served the nation in the past and present and all who have fallen, SVO will host a ceremony at 11 a.m. today in the Cardinal Hall Ballroom in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center.

SVO is hosting the ceremony in hopes of attracting a large crowd of students, community members and veterans, said Travis Stinson, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and president

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Grove offers residents ride in white limo

of the Student Veteran Organization.

“The ceremony is all about honoring not only the local veterans but every veteran who has served and sacrificed,” Stinson said. “We want to help people remember what Veterans Day is all about.”

For Holliday, Veterans Day is about reminding people that their freedom comes with great sacrifice.

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TEAM RETURNS 4 STARTERS FROM LAST YEAR Ball State seeks 4th consecutive winning season |

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One year removed from winning the Mid-American Conference West Division women’s basketball title with a 13-5 conference record (17-14 overall), Ball State was picked to finish second in the division in the MAC coaches’ preseason poll.

Head coach Brady Sallee doesn’t mind the results of the poll, as the Cardinals pulled more first-place votes (8) than division favorite

Eastern Michigan (4).

“I think those preseason polls are about as useful as wet toilet paper,” he said. “We don’t talk about them, whether we’re picked first, last, whatever.”

With Sallee at the helm, Ball State has three consecutive winning seasons and looks to make it four in 2015-16, with Sallee giving all the credit to the players.

“I learned a long time ago this level’s got very little to do with coaching,” he said. “Recruiting is big and being able to have really good players. ... What separates people is the talent level that they’re able to put in their jerseys.”

Four returning players started at least 15 games last season

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If you ever see a white limo cruising through campus through the day, it’s what drives residents of The Grove to and from campus.

The Grove, an apartment complex located on Oakwood Avenue, started the transportation service for students this year. The price is included in their overall rent each month.

For students, pulling up in the limo is a chance to not have to drive or walk to campus.

Rachael Dominguez, a graduate student at Ball State studying actuarial science, said the rides are convenient for her and save her extra money because she doesn’t have to buy a parking pass.

“At first I thought it was kind of cheesy, and many people were asking me questions about the limo, but I don’t mind it,” Dominguez said.

The Grove provides transportation with two different vehicles. The main vehicle used for students is the bus, which includes plush leather couches, some seats with a recliner lever and hand rails for students to stand if there are no seats left. The second vehicle is the white limo, only used when the bus has maintenance issues and is being worked on.

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games, averaging more than 15 minutes per game. While none of them are “drill-sergeanttype” leaders, Sallee said, several could step up and fill the role.

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FIVE TAKEAWAYS FROM REPUBLICAN DEBATE KAITLIN LANGE KAITLIN’S LANGEUAGE KAITLIN LANGE IS A JOURNALISM AND POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJOR AND WRITES ‘KAITLIN’S LANGEUAGE’ FOR THE DAILY NEWS. HER VIEWS DO NOT NECESSARILY AGREE WITH THOSE OF THE NEWSPAPER. WRITE TO KAITLIN AT KLLANGE@BSU.EDU.

I always learn something new during the presidential debates. Sure, I learn about the candidates’ political policies, but I also know an odd amount about their parents’ jobs. Mark Rubio’s father was a bartender and his mother was a maid.

John Kasich’s father “carried mail on his back.”

Of course, Ben Carson also pulled the family card as he mentioned his granddaughter was in the crowd. And we can’t forget about Ted Cruz’s mother, whom he almost always brings up when social security is brought up.

Looking past the candidates’ attempts to play the family card and appeal to voters’ emotions, here are five takeaways from the Fox Business Network and Wall Street Journal GOP Debate.

1. As usual, Bernie Sanders received little to no attention during the Republican debate. Everyone on the stage

seemed to assume they would be facing Clinton next November.

Gerard Baker, one of the moderators, at one point said, “You’ll probably be facing a Democrat named Clinton.” Another question the moderators asked referred to how the Republican candidates would compete against all of Clinton’s experience.

While Clinton is still polling the best out of all the Demo-

THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN DEBATE WHERE THE DEBATE TOOK PLACE

Milwaukee Theater in Milwaukee, Wis. In this same venue on Oct. 14, 1912, Teddy Roosevelt was shot in the chest shortly before giving a campaign speech. “It takes more than that to kill a bull moose,” he said.

WHO PARTICIPATED AND WHERE DID THEY STAND?

Donald Trump Ben Carson Marco Rubio Ted Cruz Carly Fiorina Jeb Bush Rand Paul John Kasich WHO MODERATED?

Maria Bartiromo and Neil Cavuto, anchors at Fox Business, and Garard Baker, the Wall Street Journal’s editor-in-chief, moderated the debate.

THE NEXT REPUBLICAN DEBATE

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cratic candidates, Sanders has steadily increased in popularity, yet remains unacknowledged.

2. Kasich is getting aggressive. During the first Republi-

can debate, he mainly faded in the background, except for his brief moment of fame when he tolerated gay marriage. Tuesday’s debate was vastly different for the Ohio governor.

He was quick to interrupt people and ask for his time to talk. At one point, even Donald Trump told Kasich to let Jeb Bush speak. However, the attention wasn’t necessarily positive.

3. Essentially every candidate in the primaries, Republican and Democrat, has

mentioned big banks. They use it as a talking point, but Tuesday’s debate emphasized how some of them simply don’t have a strong solution.

Cruz mentioned he wouldn’t bail out the big banks, but avoided the question of if he would just let them fail. Kasich too said he wouldn’t bail them out, but also wouldn’t let them fail. His wishy-washy response elicited some of the only “boos” of the night.

4. Overall, the Republican candidates agreed on most topics. Most want small government, flat taxes and a stagnant national minimum wage. The one topic they

couldn’t seem to agree on was the military.

Rand Paul’s views on the topic especially stood out. While all of the other candidates supported a no-fly zone over Syria, Paul didn’t. All of the other candidates also called for a strong military presence, while Paul wanted to reduce spending on all fronts, including military spending.

The moderators essentially lost control of the debate as Rubio and Paul went back and forth discussing military expenditures. Other candidates also capitalized on the discussion and jumped in before moderators could regain control.

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him as he questioned how conservative Rubio was. Paul criticized his plans for a tax credit for those with children. And seconds later asked, “How is it conservative to add a trillion dollars in military expenditures?”

Despite his strong performance, Paul may be too far down in the polls for a recovery, easily behind Trump, Carson, Rubio, Cruz and Bush.

And the most important takeaway from the night? Trump was on “60 Minutes” with Vladimir Putin once.

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Escape Room opens in Indianapolis New attraction tests patience, problem-solving

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MEGAN MELTON GENERAL REPORTER memelton@bsu.edu

Find the code. Get the key. Solve the riddle. Escape the room.

It might sound like a spy movie, but it’s actually real life.

The Escape Room Indianapolis is where thrill-seeking intellectuals flock to put their abilities to the test.

Participants choose to be locked into one of the business’s five themed rooms and are given 60 minutes to solve brain teasers of all types and escape.

Scott Neal is a founder and CEO of the business, which became the first escape room in Indiana when it opened on Oct. 2.

“The puzzles are varied,” Neal said, “Some are mathematical, others are logical. Some are riddles, finding keys and figuring out combinations.”

Neal’s implemented an upscale vision for The Escape Room Indianapolis.

“We have a lounge, we serve beer and wine, … and it’s not in a back alley somewhere or in some warehouse,” Neal said, “It’s right in the middle of Indianapolis.”

Above the Old Spaghetti Factory at 200 S. Meridian St., to be exact.

The idea for The Escape Room came to Neal and his

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wife on a make-or-break trip to Budapest, Hungary.

Neal lost his job flying as a corporate pilot, but the couple had already scheduled a European trip to their favorite city.

“We were kind of torn between, ‘Do we go on the trip and pray that I get some sort of steady in-

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come afterwards?’ or, ‘Do we cancel it?’” Neal said.

They decided to chance it. In Budapest, they visited one of the city’s popular tourist attractions — an escape room.

“It was an old, Soviet-era apartment building. You know, crumbling from several decades of wear and tear, and it was in a basement through an iron door,” Neal said. “It was kind of moldy and smelly, and everything was peeling and the furniture was falling apart, but we had a great time.”

On the flight home, Neal and his wife decided they would do research on the industry, and in October of last year, they officially formed the company.

They had never founded

a business on this scale and the new experience brought obstacles.

“I never doubted it would work out at all,” Neal said.

“I just had to convince everyone else around me that it would work.”

And he wasn’t disappointed. The Escape Room Indianapolis has had many participants from all over the state.

College kids are part of their target audience. The students who come don’t seem to mind the drive, Neal said.

Some Ball State students wouldn’t either. “[The Escape Room] sounds really cool,” said Ian Smith, a junior social studies education major. “It is certainly a new challenge and would be a unique experience.”

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Part of the challenge is The Escape Room’s “no cellphones, no cheating” rule. Each room has video surveillance to make sure the rules are followed.

An Escape Room visit costs $29 per person, and participants can choose from the KGB Interrogation Room, Jail Break, Bank Heist, Art Gallery and Hoosier Hysteria.

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Students opt out of flu vaccine

Health Center offers preventative shots each day

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LAURA ARWOOD GENERAL REPORTER llarwood@bsu.edu

It’s flu season again.

Last year’s flu epidemic filled up beds at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital, but students say they still aren’t getting the flu vaccine.

The Ball State University Student Health Center offers flu shots to students daily from 8-11 a.m. and from 1-4:30 p.m., by appointment or walk-in. Students are encouraged to get vaccinated to prevent the flu from spreading.

Around 40 percent of adults got the flu vaccine in 2012-13, according to the

Centers for Disease Control.

Sophomore nursing major Ashley Criswell said she usually doesn’t get vaccinated for the flu, but is planning on doing it this year because she is required to for her major.

Criswell said students may resist getting flu shots because of their age.

“We hear flu prevention for the very young and the very old, but never really anything for our age, which is kind of a bad deal,” Criswell said. “It’s spread so easily on campus. A lot of people think they’ll never get that sick, so I resisted getting one.

But I can’t resist anymore because I have clinicals in the spring.”

Some students refuse the vaccine because it makes them sick. Rachel Selke, a sophomore art education major, said her encounter

with the flu vaccine was not a good one.

“Apparently, I have the rare thing [that] when I get a flu shot, I get the actual, full-blown flu,” she said. “It’s the only time I ever got the flu in my life, so I’m not going to be getting it again.”

However, Selke said she may think differently when she’s teaching children.

Kelsey Moore, a nurse practitioner at American Health Network in Muncie, said unless patients are allergic to the vaccine, the vaccine won’t make them sick. She recommends her patients get vaccinated.

“When you get the flu vaccine, it does lower your immune system at first while it begins to work, so therefore if [you] were starting to get sick anyways it does make the symptoms more notice-

Bed bugs, scabies return to dorms

Students reported at least 2 cases during October

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Editor’s note: If you have had trouble with bed bugs or scabies this semester and would be willing to talk to the Daily News about it, please email news@bsudailynews.com.

Bed bugs and scabies outbreaks are back again in the residence halls this year.

Bed bugs cases have been reported in LaFollette Complex and Woodworth Complex. Woodworth has also had reports of scabies.

Matt Kovach, assistant director of Housing and Residence Life, said housing works to fight bed bugs, but a few still slip through.

“Honestly, the cases we’ve had have been pretty rare,” Kovach said. “I’m not saying we haven’t had them, but we do a lot of things preemptively to prevent it from happening. In the summer, we clean all the rooms, we seal our mattresses in hypoallergenic bags. We do what we can.”

There were two confirmed cases of bed bugs last year. Kovach wouldn’t confirm how many cases there were this year. However, there were at least two cases reported in one weekend in October.

Bed bugs and scabies hide in soft things, like clothing, luggage and bedding, which makes them hard to detect. They aren’t considered dangerous, but scabies burrow eggs under the skin and require follow-up treatment, according to cdc.gov.

The procedure in place for a bed bug or scabies infestation begins by

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SIGNS OF BED BUGS AND SCABIES SCABIES SYMPTOMS:

• Intense itching, a pimple-like itchy rash.

• Found in the wrist, elbow, armpit, webbing between the fingers, nipples, genitals, waist, belt-line and buttocks.

• Burrows are sometimes visible on skin, appear as “tiny raised and crooked grayish-white or skin-colored lines on the skin surface.”

HOW IS IT SPREAD?

• Usually is spread by direct, prolonged, skin-to-skin contact with a person who has scabies.

• A quick handshake or hug usually will not spread scabies.

• Easily spread through sexual partners and housemates • Sometimes spread indirectly by sharing articles such as clothing, towels or bedding used by an infested person BED BUGS SYMPTOMS:

• Range from an absence of any physical signs of the bite, to a small bite mark, to a serious allergic reaction • Found usually on face, neck, arms or hands • Usually gone unnoticed until days after bitten Source: cdc.gov sending the student to the Health Center to diagnose the bite.

“Once the Health Center has determined it’s not a spider bite or something else, once we know it’s a case of either bed bugs or scabies, we sanitize and heat,” Kovach said.

Pest control will visit a dorm room and set up traps, housing staff will wash all bedding and drapery with a heater left in the room to exterminate and sanitize. Scabies procedure calls for four to six weeks of follow-up treatment.

“Our staff will come in and swap out mattresses,” Kovach said. “If they can be treated, great. If not, they’ll be disposed of.”

Freshman actuarial science major Kathryn Mirabella and freshman public relations major Lindsey Sharp said the location of

the bed bugs is concerning.

“Man, I feel like I shouldn’t be sitting here [in Woodworth Commons]. I feel like this is one of the more trafficked food courts, so it’s definitely a little freaky,” Mirabella said.

Sharp said she thinks students living in residence halls should be given instructions on how to look for bed bugs and what to expect.

“Do kids know to go to the Health Center when they have a bug bite?” Sharp said. “I wouldn’t go, I would just think I have a bug bite. When we move in, we should be briefed on this.”

Mirabella said she plans to tell her friends about the bed bugs and scabies.

“Now I’m going to go to my friends and say, ‘Hey, be aware,’” she said “Because that’s not something you get in a list of instructions.”

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Ashley Stowe, a sophomore women and gender studies major, said this is her first year at The Grove and enjoys it because of these special benefits.

“The new transportation is a big reason why I chose The Grove,” Stowe said.

The bus has broken down numerous times and had an original completion deadline of Nov. 2.

As of now, the main bus is back and running for students to use, so students won’t see the limo cruising up and down McKinley again until the bus needs maintenance.

Students said it was fun to ride to class in the limo but didn’t feel as comfortable compared to the bus.

“I was excited at first, then the novelty wore off

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The Grove is providing transportation for students to get to and from campus without having to drive themselves with a limo and a shuttle bus.

The white limo is used when the bus is having maintenance issues and being operated on.

with how uncomfortable it is getting on and off,” said historical researcher Olivia Boles.

Boles posted a photo on her Instagram showing followers how cramped the limo is.

Bus driver Stephania Grove said the bus is more

cost efficient because it has room for more students and uses gas more efficiently.

Students who are current residents at The Grove can use this service between 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday to get to and from campus.

able,” Moore said. “I will have patients say, ‘Well I did have a runny nose when I got the vaccine before.’ Then it is not the flu vaccine that caused you to be ill.”

Preventative measures can ward off the flu, and Deidre Dorman, health center director, said good hand hygiene and properly covering a cough are instrumental in prevention.

Research conducted by Xu Lu from the University of Findlay in Ohio found college students may not be washing their hands properly. Once students were instructed with hand washing protocol from CDC, hand hygiene significantly improved, according to the American Journal of Infection Control.

The CDC recommends hand washing before, during and after prepar-

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FLU FACTS

• Flu season is from October to May • The vaccine takes two weeks to take effect • Most flu vaccines protect against the H1NI, H3N2 and influenza B viruses.

• Shots are manufactured by growing the flu virus in eggs • Higher dose vaccines are given to people 65 and older.

• Everyone 6 months and older is recommended to get a flu shot Source: cdc.gov ing food, eating food, caring for someone who is sick, after using the toilet, changing diapers, blowing your nose, coughing or sneezing, touching an animal, animal waste or animal food or touching garbage, according to cdc.gov.

Covering coughs and sneezes and good hand hygiene helps, but the flu

vaccine is best, Dorman said.

But even so, students still don’t plan on getting their vaccine this year.

“No, I’m not getting this year,” said Dakota Clark, a sophomore telecommunications major. “I don’t know why not. I guess I just don’t care.”

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “Freedom does not come free, it doesn’t not come free at all,” Holliday said. “Every day I was in the military, I thought of all the sacrifices that are made every day with how many go in and out and leave their homes to serve our country.”

During that time serving in the Marine Corps for four years, Holliday never got to deploy because she was always working alongside sergeants, captains and lieutenants who looked at her to be the leader of her group.

While she was serving, Holliday got married and had a child in Japan, but wasn’t there to be a part of his life as he group up.

“Because I was serving in places like Malaysia, Cambodia, the Philippines and Thailand, I missed a whole year of my son growing,” Holliday said. “The sacrifice to be away from him was hard, and going through all I did emotionally broke me. That’s why I decided to get out.”

In addition to missing her son, Holliday said she didn’t want her children to have to see or go through the things she did.

In Thailand, Holliday saw the reality of poverty as people ate off of the floor, sold their bodies for meals and children begged for money.

Holliday also worked with the clean-up crew in Japan, where she was surrounded by dead bodies and families crying out to the soldiers.

But they didn’t speak English, so all she could understand from their Japanese was “excuse me” and “help.”

“I don’t ever want my children to be missing me and ever have to see or go through that,” Holliday said.

Once Holliday got out of the military, the transition from serving to being back in the U.S. was emotionally challenging.

“The transition was hard

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The Student Veteran Organization will be hosting a Veterans Day ceremony at 11 a.m. in the Cardinal Hall Ballroom in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center.

The group is hoping for a large crowd of students, community members and veterans.

for me because I am a mother, wife and daughter, and I got to see all of that at once,” she said. “It changed me.”

Even though she has not been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder — something that one in three veterans are diagnosed with, according to PTSD Foundation of America — Holliday said she still has images from overseas that haunt her.

Holliday takes things one day at a time, but she is always proud to be a veteran.

“I am grateful and thankful that I am alive and here, and I don’t take that for granted,” Holliday said. “I want others to know that it does not come free. [Veterans] don’t just do it just because. We sacrifice a lot just to get to this point.”

The ceremony today will focus on honoring both local veterans and veterans all across the country. U.S. Navy veteran Meredith W. Fry with be awarded the Hometown Hero award during the ceremony as well.

Fry enlisted in the Navy in 1942 and served as a Navy Corpsman during WWII. After serving, he went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Tri-State, known today as Trine University.

Later, he worked as the department head for the Physical Plant Planning

Office at Ball State University. In 1985, he earned his master’s in economics from the university and worked as the superintendent of Planning and Construction until his retirement in 1987.

Even after his retirement, Fry still stays active. He currently belongs to more than 20 professional and military organizations.

Members of SVO sent in nominations to the organization’s planning committee for the Hometown Hero award, but Anthony Marquez, SVO’s social media coordinator and U.S. Marine veteran, said nothing matched Fry’s resume.

“Not only is he a World War II veteran, but he is also a Ball State Cardinal,” Marquez said. “He has been retired for so many years, but he has never stopped and continues to give back.”

Although Fry is one veteran being awarded at the ceremony, Marquez emphasized the importance of giving thanks and honor to all veterans, not only on Veterans Day, but every day.

“As long as I am alive, I will make sure that others around me know that it is because of the veterans that this country has the freedom to be what it is today,” Marquez said.

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FRIDAY The men’s basketball team travels to Peoria, Ill., to take on Bradley in its season opener. Tip-off is set for 8 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY

FIRST-YEAR COACH RESIGNS Sally Northcroft decides to pursue other opportunities

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First-year Ball State field hockey coach Sally Northcroft announced her resignation on Monday to pursue opportunities outside of the United States.

“After giving careful personal and professional consideration to my future, I have made the decision to return to Australia,” Northcroft said in a statement. “I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to coach at my alma mater. It has been an honor to be entrusted with this role, and I am extremely grateful to have been able to coach, educate, mentor and motivate this exceptional group of young women.”

Northcroft was a former player for the Cardinals, and her journey led her to Muncie this season.

Ball State finished the 2015 season 2-16 overall with zero wins in Mid-American Conference play. The program has not finished above .500 since 1999 — Northcroft’s senior season as a player.

That year, the Harare, Zimbabwe, native set single-season MAC records with 52 goals and 107 points and career records with 126 goals and 270 points, all of which still stand. She was inducted to the Ball State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2010 and the MAC Hall of Fame in 2014.

She won the Honda Award as the nation’s top field hockey player and earned both MAC Player of the Year and All-American honors in two consecutive seasons. She was first-team All-MAC during her four-year career at Ball State and holds the NCAA Division-I

records for goals scored in a single game (7) and goals per game in a single season (2.74).

Between her time playing and coaching with the Cardinals, Northcroft coached field hockey in Australia, first at Somerset College in Mudgeeraba and then at Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School, where she was also director of sports.

In her statement, Northcroft also said she is confident the Cardinals will improve and draw closer to the Cardinals’ heyday during the ’80s and ’90s, when her former coach, Karen Fitzpatrick, led Ball State to 16 MAC regular season titles and 10 conference tournament championships.

“The field hockey team has worked so incredibly hard this year, and I believe it is in a better place to now become a legitimate contender in the Mid-American Conference and beyond,” Northcroft said.

SATURDAY Women’s volleyball hosts Central Michigan in its final regular season match at 7 p.m.

BASKETBALL: | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “I’ve always believed that leaders emerge,” Sallee said. “You can’t make them. We’ve got some natural candidates—Nathalie Fontaine, one of the best players to ever come through these doors, [and] Jill Morrison, an all-conference-level kid.”

Fontaine enters the season as Ball State’s sixth alltime leading scorer with 1,506 career points.

“She’s got a chance to be the all-time leading scorer here if she has a good year,” Sallee said. “We don’t want her chasing that necessarily, but we think it can be a byproduct of her playing at a really high level. There’s no reason she’s not playing pro this time next year. She’s got that kind of talent.”

After the Cardinals’ 151-72 exhibition victory on Nov. 3, Morrison, who finished fourth in the MAC last season by

sinking 38 percent of her shots from beyond the arc, said the returners have collectively helped the underclassmen.

“I think our experienced players have really helped our new players adjust and learn that system quickly,” she said.

“That’s going to help us in the long run. I think in the learning stages there’s definitely some things we can tighten up.”

A pair of underclassmen — freshman Carmen Grande and sophomore Brionna Simond — are looking to fill the open point guard spot, Sallee said.

“Between [Grande] and [Simond] I think, honestly, it can be a year of competition,” he said. “Whoever’s playing the best, we’re gonna put out there. But I think they’re both gonna play a ton of minutes for us.”

Overall, the Cardinals thrived on efficiency in 2014-15, finishing second in the MAC in field goal percentage (41.9 percent), third in free throw percent-

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Sallee said the problem is that the team’s efficiency was often canceled out by the opposing team’s volume. Ball State was 10th in the MAC with a -2.7 rebounding margin.

“We made it hard on ourselves last year because we didn’t have the number of possessions that the other team had,” Sallee said. “So we had to be that much more efficient.”

Ball State opens the season on Friday at Charlotte and will play its home opener on Nov. 19 against Western Kentucky.

Sallee said the Cardinals will be prepared for every game this season.

“We’re going to try to beat everybody’s brains out, and I’m assuming everybody’s going to try to beat our brains out,” he said. “It’s what this level is, and for us, we focus on who we are. It’s not who we play, it’s how we play.”

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Ball State looks to compete in MAC Roster features new additions, more experience

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The men’s basketball program has the tools to compete for a Mid-American Conference championship this year.

Head coach James Whitford knows his team has the potential, but knows his lineup has to come and stick together.

“We have to come together, but I certainly feel that we can be one of the teams to compete for it,” Whitford said.

After Whitford labeled his second season as disappointing, he answered the questions that riddled Ball State last season by recruiting length, a true point guard and more experience.

Senior guard/forward Ryan

Weber is the most notable addition to this year’s roster.

He maintains junior eligibility after sitting out a season due to transfer rules.

Weber and MAC Freshman of the Year Sean Sellers (11.8 points per game, .440 3-point percentage) will face off against each other for the starting small forward position this upcoming season.

Another notable player is the 6-foot-2 sophomore shooting guard Jeremie Tyler.

After starting in all nine of his appearances last season, he was ruled academically ineligible for the second semester of the school year.

During his time on the roster, Tyler averaged 12 points per game, with a 46.1 shooting percentage and .429 3-point percentage, which would have been in the top five in the MAC if he had played in enough games.

His presence was missed on the court as he watched the Cardinals drop 17 straight

contests to end the season.

Francis Kiapway filled in for Tyler as the starting shooting guard and finished seventh in the MAC for freshman scoring during his 28 appearances last season.

Junior guard Naiel Smith is a new face this season, but will look to make an impact this season. The Brooklyn native is a point guard who brings a pass-first mentality to the position.

Last season at San Jacinto College, Smith averaged nearly 7 points and five assists per game. He will look to challenge fifth-year senior Jeremiah Davis (7.1 points per game, 2.8 assists per game) for the starting point guard spot.

Whitford will look to lead this upperclassman-heavy group as the team’s season begins on Friday in Peoria, Ill., against the Bradley Braves.

“Coach is doing a great job of leading us,” Davis said. “But it’s on us to do

whatever we have to in order to win games.”

Senior Bo Calhoun and junior Franko House are Ball State’s tandem at the power forward position.

Calhoun stepped up for Ball State in a big way last season — he is the second-most improved offensive player in the conference behind Justin Moss of Buffalo, who was named MAC Player of the Year last season.

Calhoun averaged 2.4 points per game and 3.1 rebounds per game in his 27 appearances in 2013. The 6-foot-6 man increased his average to 9.6 points per game and six rebounds per game, throughout the season, which included a 30-point outburst at Toledo.

While Calhoun has proven what he can do as an individual, he knows his team has a lot to prove as a whole.

“I’ve always been a person to work hard,” Calhoun said.

“I feel like we have a lot to

prove as a team and not from the individual aspect.”

Ball State’s “biggest” edition is the 7-foot-1 transfer from Davenport, Iowa, center Nate Wells. He is Ball State’s first 7-foot player since Lonnie Jones in 2001-02.

Wells transferred from Bradley as a graduate student and will play this season. Last season, Wells averaged seven points per game, 3.3 rebounds and 1.4 blocks on his way to emerging as the starter for the Braves to end out his four-year career.

Whitford’s first commit to this season’s string of new addition was 6-foot-9 freshman Trey Moses. Moses will likely be placed at the power forward and center position this season.

He left high school as the No. 3 recruit in the state of Kentucky after averaging 12.5 points, eight rebounds and four blocks per game as a junior.

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Ball State men’s basketball head coach James Whitford knows the team has the ability to compete in the Mid-American Conference this year. Junior power forward Franko House is looking to play a big role for the Cardinals this season.

When asked about Wells and Moses, Whitford only had good things to say.

“I’m pleased with both of them,” Whitford said.

“They both 75004 have really bright futures.”

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