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Davis supports Vicky Smith

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Thanks to a gift from the Don C. Davis family and the Brewer Trust, the Cameron University Foundation has established the Davis Family Endowed Lectureship in Communication, a sum of $25,000.

To establish the endowment, the Cameron University Foundation received approval from the University of Oklahoma, Cameron University and Rogers State University Board of Regents. Currently, the foundation is seeking matching funds from the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.

According to the fund agreement, former

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Cameron President Don Davis and his wife Beverly established the lectureship, and its purpose “shall be to promote and celebrate the academic and professional tenets of broadcast journalism with a particular focus on public, notfor-profit radio and digital productions.”

Chair of the Department of Communication Dr. tight deadline,” Keller said. “I learned how to work with a Christopher Keller said Davis believes public radio to be a team, how to use technology and how to talk to strangers. cultural cornerstone of southwest Oklahoma.

And, in the semester I had a food review column, I learned “Davis has an undergraduate degree in Journalism from to really, really, really like beer. All together, it was formative OU, is a retired attorney, former legislator and master teacher experience.” himself,” Keller said. “In 1989, as CU President, Dr. Davis According to Keller, free speech is a cornerstone ushered the launch of Cameron’s first ever national public of democracy, and he believes student-produced radio station, KCCU. journalism is important.

“This endowed lectureship supports Dr. Davis’ original “Student-produced journalism, especially vision and recognizes continued excellence in digital and in a formative environment like a college broadcast journalistic media.” campus, is both training for and access According to the fund agreement, the three to an ideology” he said. “The ethic and objectives of the endowment are to “support studentethos and responsibility and bravery produced broadcast journalism programming; required for true journalism is taught to support named, thematic, continuing public in our programs. It is one of the radio news shows; and to promote convergence most important things we do in this journalism initiatives, theory and community department.” awareness.”

In a press release, Davis agrees Keller said this endowment will not only that journalism is a profession benefit students, but it will also support an recognized in the Bill of Rights, incredibly important facet of new-millennia for the Founding Fathers media. considered it important to protect “This is a one of a kind endowment in that the rights of the press. it targets, very specifically, digital, non-fiction “Just as we as journalists need creative media” he said. “The Communication to staunchly defend the rights of Department has worked very hard to establish freedom of the press, we need to and attempt to grow a Journalism and Digital be able to tell the story,” he said.

Media Production program in the face of “Broadcast journalism is based on declining broadcast media and journalistic media being able to tell a story, and to tell consumption.” the story, you have to be able to write As a Cameron student, Keller gained experience for the story. his future when he participated in a student-produced “You have to teach students to journalism program. He worked on staff at the Cameron learn to write before they can effectively Collegian from 1993 to 1996. communicate.”

“I learned to think critically and write solid prose on a

“You have to teach students to learn to write before they can effectively communicate.”

-Don Davis

Students progress on project for CCMH Vicky Smith

Managing Editor

@pinkwritinglady Progress is underway for students creating a searchable data application for Comanche County Memorial Hospital (CCMH), as part of a spring interdisciplinary class.

The class is a combination of Information Technology (IT) Capstone, Computer Science (CS) Capstone, Multimedia (MM) Capstone

and an internship with the English department.

The professors, who include Dave Smith, CEO; Dr. Chao Zhao, Chief Information Officer (CIO); Dr. Abbas Johari, Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO); and Dr. William Carney, Chief Data Officer (CDO), run the class as though it is a software company.

Johari said the students are on schedule in the process of completing the project.

“Students are cooperating, learning and are challenged,” Johari said. “[They] bring work as

a group on time and pay attention to the due dates.”

At the beginning of the semester, Smith chose two students to be the project leaders: senior IT majors Jenny Dodson and Kathryn Evans.

Dodson, the lead of Team Dodson, said on Feb. 11, they had their first In-Progress Review, where they discussed the progress made and created a name for the system, which is Bone and Implant Tracking System (B.I.T.S).

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“We presented what we’ve done,” Dodson said, “including the data-flow diagrams and entity relationship diagrams that the Database team completed, the use-case diagram that the Computer Science team completed and the website mock-up that the Multimedia team completed.”

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Raising awareness of heart disease

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Raising awareness of heart disease the United Abramson said young people need to observe regularly and eating the right food can help you States,” he their lives. keep in shape, which in turn helps to eliminate said, “and “It’s never too early to take your health obesity and heart disease. Professor of Sports stroke is into consideration,” Abramson said, “so it’s and Exercise Science Andra Hunt emphasized the number important to start early – monitoring your life the importance of exercise in prevention five cause style and what effects that has on your health.” practice. of death. So Senior biology major Alexander Rivers said “The American College of Sports Medicine obviously there people should watch their sugar levels. says at least five to six days a week, we should is a good chance that “The things you do at the earlier stage of be participating in some form of moderate- to Temi Adelusi you are personally going to your life will definitely affect you later on,” vigorous-intensity exercise,” Hunt said. They Staff Writer be impacted, or if you are not, Rivers said, “so it makes sense to say, ‘I don’t say at least get 150 minutes a week of cardio somebody you know.” need to drink that soda today. I will just drink vascular exercise.”

February is the time of year to Gaines also said a lot of the major causes water instead and limit my sugar intake.’”

Visit cdc.gov for more information about focus on heart healthy behaviors as of heart attacks in America today can be Studies have also shown that exercising American Heart Month.

American Heart Month rolls around. prevented.

American Heart Month is a time to battle “The number one cause of heart cardiovascular disease and educate Americans disease is smoking,” Gaines said, about living healthy lives. “and certainly smoking is entirely According to healthyyou.org, those who preventable. have higher risks of heart diseases are women “There is lot of national aged 55 years or older, men aged 45 years or attention on trying to do that and older and people with family histories of early a lot of mechanism for stopping heart diseases. smoking. The other major risk The Center for Disease Control and factor besides genetics is diet and Prevention (CDC) in conjunction with the exercise. Because we have abundant Million Hearts Initiative are coordinating food, obesity is a contributing a national effort to prevent 1 million heart factor.” attacks and strokes in the United States by Gaines believes society as a 2017 and encouraging Americans to know their whole is doing its best to reach the blood pressure.

CDC goal.

Professor of Biological Sciences Ronald “It is just so hard to change Gaines said enough information is out there for people’s behavior,” Gaines said, people to learn more about heart disease. “but you see the publicity, the “I know that, particularly in Lawton, our emphasis on obesity and its hospitals are very aggressive in promoting contribution to not just heart that knowledge,” Gaines said. “They regularly attacks but other diseases. The have full page ads on the paper telling people state of Oklahoma has the tobacco about the facilities for treatment [and] the risk hot lines to help you stop smoking factors. They offer low cost screening options, and here are lots of options that so certainly the material is out there.” are not expensive to encourage and Gaines said it is important to enlighten support people to make this life Photo by Temi Adelusi people about heart attacks. style changes.”

Getting a regular check-up: Doctor Eugen Ivan, MD, FACC, of the Memorial Medical “The CDC has said that heart attack is the Senior biology major Mariama Group Heart and Vascular Center, checks the rhythm of a patient’s heart for abnormalities. number one cause of deaths and disability in

CCMH continued from page 1 “The Security team has been setting up testing computers and tools, as well as working on security policies for the system,” Dodson said. “The tech writer has been checking all work that has been and will be presented to the client for spelling, grammatical and diction errors.”

Dodson said her major role has been documenting the progress they have made.

“[I’m] delegating tasks, making sure that all teams are completing their work on time, communicating and visiting with the client and making sure everything is running smoothly,” she said. “This goes for the other team, Team Evans, as well.”

Dodson said although the workload of the project has been heavy and fast-paced, the work environment has been extremely positive.

“Once we complete one thing, there is another few waiting for us,” she said. “Luckily, if any of

us needs help, there is always someone who is willing to help, even if they are on the other team.”

Evans said the students not only meet twice a week regularly for two hours, totaling four hours a week, but they also work together outside of the designated meeting times.

Because the students will receive college credits for the work they do, they will not be financially compensated; however, Evans said they are documenting how many hours each student works.

“We’re keeping track of how

much this is going to ‘cost’ Mr. Smith,” she said. “He wants to be able to show the client at the end, saying ‘This is how long we worked. This is how much money it would cost.’”

According to Dodson, the work experience that she and the other students are gaining is more beneficial to them than they know. “[I] look forward to members of both teams walking out of that class with the skills and confidence they need for the real-world,” she said.

Evans agreed, saying she enjoys

completing a project that is not solely out of a textbook.

“It’s actually going to be used,” she said, “and I think that’s the coolest part.”

Dodson said she also looks forward to giving the completed project to the client, CCMH, whom she believes is deserving of all the effort the students have contributed.

“They have done so much for our community,” she said, “so it feels great to know that we are doing something that helps them for a change.”

Preparing for 8th annual Camp of Champs Jacob Jardel

the accommodations or support to let the camper do it with success.”

Sports Editor For her, though, the most vital aspect of this camp @JJardel_Writing is to provide this particular group of campers with an opportunity they might not get otherwise.

For students who want to do more than relax at home “Most children go to some sort of a camp as they’re this summer, there is one opportunity to get out and to give growing up,” Vanderslice said. “Oftentimes, there aren’t back. as many opportunities for children with special needs to Cameron’s 8th Annual Camp of Champs will take place from May 30 until June 2 at Quartz Mountain. The camp is have the supervision and safety they need to attend another designed for children ages 6-13 with special needs. Campers camp.

“That’s the opportunity we want to provide for other come from elementary schools in six different surrounding kids.” counties.

She emphasized the biggest differences come with the Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Ronna Vanderslice has served as the director for Camp of Champs oversight and support that comes with a small counselorcamper ratio. since its establishment, having already run a similar camp “Our counselors are really like surrogate parents for before coming to Cameron. She said that, in terms of our campers during the week,” Vanderslice said. “They activities, this camp provides similar experiences to more accompany them to every activity, participate with them, eat typical ones. with them – we really provide just really good oversight to “Our focus is on doing every kind of activity that any keep our campers safe that might be a little different than other camper would want to do,” she said, “but providing another camp might provide.”

These counselors are all Cameron students. However, Vanderslice said that there is no major or experience requirement. She said there was only one thing counselors needed for the job at hand.

“You do have to have an attitude of wanting to help,” she said, “and an understanding that it’s going to be a lot of work.”

Junior criminal justice Courtesy of Camp of Champs Staff major Braydon Making friends: Cameron alumuna Anna Pollard served as a counselor at Cameron’s 7th Williams served as a counselor Annual Camp of Champs. This year’s Camp of Champs is May 30-June 2.

for Camp of Champs. He said that the experience, though challenging, was rewarding.

“My first year being a counselor I was worried that I didn’t have the knowledge to supervise special needs children,” he said. “But with the help of the staff and the other counselors, that weight was taken off my shoulders, and I learned a great deal about interacting and handling the needs of the campers.”

Other counselors have had similar experiences, with many counselors returning to help out in subsequent camps.

According to Vanderslice, these students help with Camp of Champs even post-graduation.

“It’s been so good, even after some of our students graduate and have been out working, they take vacation from their job to help out at the camp,” she said.

Williams said that he plans to work as a counselor again because of how much he learned from the camp.

“The children make a huge impact on your life,” he said.

“Growing up I just saw special needs children in a school setting, and they were always the odd ones out. At this camp you see them for what they are, and that’s a child.”

However, according to Vanderslice, counselors are not the only ones who want to come back after their first Camp.

“Most of our campers are returners,” she said, “so once they come, no matter what age, they come back year after year. The camp is a very important part of their lives. They look forward to it every summer.”

She thinks that this positive response is one of the main reasons that the camp has gone on for so long.

“I think there is a need for camps for children with special needs,” she said. “I think that they want to have the same experiences as everyone else does.”

However, Vanderslice said that there is one other major reason this camp has been a success for eight years, and that is the support from the Cameron community.

“They allow me to take time away from my job to work on camp,” she said. “I’m thankful that I’ve always had support from President McArthur now and President Ross before to allow us to use the campus as a support system.”

She also said that the camp would not be what it is without the counselors who volunteer. Counselors like Williams feel equally privileged to have the chance to give their time to the cause.

“It is very heartwarming to see everyone afforded the same opportunities without any discrimination,” he said.

“These campers look forward to this camp all year and I’m glad to be a part of it.”

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WOSC nursing class to host health fair community. “[They will] relate positive health perceptions and health management methods to individuals in the community,” she said, “[and] incorporate sociocultural concepts in developing a plan to integrate and implement intervention to meet diverse needs of the community.”

According to Jerrick, the students hope the event will benefit not only the Cameron University and WOSC communities but also Lawton and neighboring communities.

“Any individuals within the travelling distance who are interested in learning about health promotion and wellness prevention for themselves and their families [can attend],” she said.

Jerrick said the Department of Health and Human Services, in Healthy People 2010, stated that promoting a healthy community gives the community a sense of mental and physical well-being.

“This event is important because it highlights some of today’s critical issues, such as suicide and bullying, obesity, healthy living and exercise,” she said, “all [of] which are essential health promotion and wellness care needs to our community to promote a productive society prepare to enter into 2020.”

Jerrick said people who attend the Courtesy of Stacey Jerrick health fair will learn how they can better take care of both themselves and those in Joining together: Lawton Sophomore Nursing students from the Lawton Western Oklahoma State College will gather their community. at Cameron University to educate students and the community about what it takes to have and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

“I hope people would become aware of Students are encouraged to come to hear the WOSC nursing class discuss a variety of topics. the risks surrounding the community, their individual health and our youths,” she said, MCC Ballroom.

Department of Nursing Education student Vicky Smith “– become more involved, take note of what Lawton campus sophomore instructor learning objectives.

Managing Editor is going on and become accountable for their Stacey Jerrick will serve as coordinator of the “For the most part, this is all the students’ @pinkwritinglady event. doing,” she said. “I am so proud of them and to health and that of their family. Altogether, be healthy people overall: community, mind, Jerrick said her main role is to provide be a part of this experience.”

From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Mar. 3rd, the body and spirit.” supervision in ensuring the students adhere to Jerrick said the purpose of the event is to Lawton Western Oklahoma State College For more information about the health fair, Community Health Service Learning Project give WOSC nursing students the opportunity (WOSC) Nursing Class of 2016 will host contact Elena Morita at (580) 919-0435. learning objectives, as well as the WOSC to promote and provide wellness care to the the first annual community health fair in the

Campus police: providing student safety Erin Owens Staff Writer

With another semester in full swing, Cameron campus police are busy making sure everything runs smoothly.

For the campus police, this involves ensuring student safety, overseeing any traffic accidents or domestic disputes and being there to answer any call 24 hours a day.

The campus police consists of mostly retired officers from the Lawton Police Department; however, even if they have no prior experience, they all must meet the same training requirements as any other police officer in Oklahoma.

The number one priority of campus police is to make sure every student is safe. Every year the department trains and prepares for the worst case scenarios.

In case of such an event, there are thirteen emergency

call boxes across campus that students can use to be connected immediately to an officer’s radio.

If students feel like they are unable to make it to their cars safely, they can contact campus police who will then provide an escort.

Campus police investigate all accidents that occur on campus and are always on patrol to ensure that handicap and staff parking remains available for those intended.

Police Lieutenant Charles Whitis said that students are welcome to interact with campus police.

“It’s not us against them,” Whitis said. “We are part of them. We’re friendly – we talk to students and we know most of the RA’s in the dorms here, and we work closely with them.”

Campus police are also available to serve students in atypical ways. Depending on make and model of the vehicle, campus police are able to assist students who

have locked their keys in the car. Campus police are also available to help jump start a car if the battery has died.

Working as a campus police officer is a title every officer in the department is happy to carry.

For Lieutenant Whitis, it has been crucial in changing his point of view.

“I spent 33 years downtown, and the majority of it I worked narcotics.” Whitis said. “So I had a bad outlook on life. I thought everybody was bad and everybody’s on drugs, but you know now I see things positively.

“I see kids … they’re good kids, you know, they’re trying to make something out of their lives … so to me it’s the good side and my career is ending with [me] seeing the positive side.”

Campus police can be contacted in emergency situations by using the call boxes across campus. For non-emergency situations students are encouraged to call 580-581-2911.

Student Advocates for Political Action the third Wednesday of each month. She “It’s a great way to broaden your to come up with other types of events the said everyone is welcome. knowledge about what’s going on in the organization can do to get students and Student Life Editor In these discussions, students will be political spectrum as well as kind of give community members more involved. @tyla_eakins given the opportunity to speak and learn you new ideas about where you want to go SAPA will have two more discussion about politics in general but also this year’s within your own life and where you want series before the semester is over.

On Nov. 8, the United States will elect presidential candidates and the issues which candidates to go,” Taylor said.

For more information, contact O’Dell at the 45th president, and Cameron students surround those candidates.

O’Dell said she encourages students rodell@cameron.edu. are looking to get all eligible voters active in O’Dell the electoral process. described how According to the Huffington Post, only the discussions 58% of registered voters voted during the would be an last presidential election. ideal place to Cameron University’s newest learn and talk organization, Student Advocates for about politics.

Political Action (SAPA) aims to encourage “People can students and community members to get come learn more involved in the political process by about politics if informing citizens about the need to take they don’t know part during political decisions. about it but also Group advisor Dr. Roni O’Dell said kind of engage the purpose of the group is to get other in conversation students informed and engaged with as a safe place politics in order to create an electorate that where we can is actually involved and knowledgeable talk about about engaging in government. politics without O’Dell said the government plays a getting angry or larger part in the people’s lives than is upset,” she said. acknowledged, and by stepping aside and SAPA not executing their rights, citizens could president and lose rights. sophomore “If we’re not engaged with our political government, it would be really hard to science and inf luence the policies that provide those communications [government] goods and services,” she said. double major “And so SAPA is really trying to get Katie Taylor people knowledgeable [and] engaged – said the group ready to engage in voting [and] also ready to allows students engage in political discourse.” to discover more O’Dell said the best way to get involved about the world Tribune News Service is to participate in their discussion series they want to live Candidates: Currently there are eight candidates running for president. Recently the Student Advocates for which meets in room 625 in South Shepler in.

Political Action had a voter registration event to raise awareness about the importance of voting.

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Black History:

Breaking ground on a new field of dreams

Photos courtesy of Tribune News Service

Bridging the gap: A Penn State lacrosse player drives against a Delaware defender. As seen in the photos, a vast majority of the players at the Division I college level – and in general – are white. However, the inclusion of Hampton University’s new lacrosse program may be the push the sport needs to go in a more diverse direction to shake its elitist reputation.

It was Feb. 13, 2016, when Hampton But Howard is trying to reduce the University lacrosse players picked up their disproportion, and sports media outlets lacrosse sticks and charged toward the goal across the nation have taken notice. posts in the first game of their inaugural ESPN took its f lagship show season. They lost 20-3 to Roberts Wesleyan “SportsCenter” on the road to Virginia to (Division II). document the event. Coaches But the score was an and teams from across Division I afterthought. The game have shown support for the new was more than a game. program. Even the official Major In the words of ESPN League Lacrosse Twitter account contributor Scoop wished the team well.

Jackson, what spectators Lacrosse commentator Anish saw was more than a Shroff mentioned that this lacrosse team. support is vital for Hampton’s When the players success and for the expansion of took the field that the sport.

Saturday afternoon, “It’s going to take a while to they became the first get this off the ground,” he said. ever historically black “But I really hope the rest of college and university college lacrosse rallies around (HBCU) to play this program.”

Division I Lacrosse.

“I think the growth of the Jacob Jardel They were also the first game in the future will be based Sports Editor HBCU team to play on how successful Hampton is.” @JJardel_Writing lacrosse since Division In order for lacrosse to expand II Morgan State dissolved their team in the way that many fans, players and coaches 1981. want it to, inclusion is going to be key. As Lacrosse is not a new sport by any Hampton’s program gets off the ground, stretch, likely developing around the turn the playing field needs relocation from the of the 12th century in native cultures lawns of the white upper-middle class. near present-day Canada. However, its And the Hampton University staff is not familiarity in the black community has the first to come to the realization. dwindled, with only a small percentage of “There’s got to be a continuous dialogue black individuals involved at the Division I about how best to make this game accessible collegiate level. and appealing to the largest audience For Hampton players like senior Jeremy possible,” former lacrosse player Chazz Triplett, the sport was completely foreign at Woodson wrote in 2012. “Anything short of some point in time. that makes lacrosse simply a glorified social “I had never heard of lacrosse, never seen club.” it played, had no inkling of what lacrosse That social striation the opposite of what was,” Triplett said in a “Washington Post” many like Maryland lacrosse coach John interview. “[A friend] threw the stick on Tillman want to happen. my bed, and I looked at it, thinking it was a “I think as a sport we want to grow,” jacked-up broomstick or something. I didn’t Tillman said in a “Post” interview. “We know what it was.” want to get to every area possible and every He attributed the reason at least in part college possible and also to every geographic to his upbringing in Chicago. Another part region. So I think this is important.” of the reason could be the elitist reputation This philosophy of inclusion is one the sport of lacrosse has, what with lofty reason why Hampton’s appearance on the expenses required to join a club, let alone field is significant not only for the sport but everything else needed to play. also for diversity in general.

According to NCAA participation data, Pro lacrosse hall of famer Jim Brown felt just about 86 percent of men’s lacrosse like lacrosse symbolized this all-inclusive players were white, while only 3.5 percent approach. were black. This number is more diverse “For our schools to recognize that there than the 91.4/2.2 percent split from five are other cultures – and they could be fun, years ago, but it’s still a major disparity. serious and skillful – was very good for About Us

me,” he said. “I always believed in freedom, equality and justice.”

The emphasis on adding equality in the sport goes beyond which teams have the best or newest gear. It goes into the justice that supersedes whether or not a referee got a call correct. It’s about a freedom to be able to do something without having to surmount obstacles.

There are black lacrosse players at the collegiate level today. Midfielder Myles Jones plays on a top-tier Duke squad, and he has gathered quite the social media following. He’s starting to make waves in the sport.

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But in order to change the tide, teams like Hampton need to act as banner carriers for inclusion, whether for HBCUs or young black athletes looking to get into the sport.

According to Baltimore Sun reporter Quint Kessenich, it’s what those athletes may need.

“While the Pirates won’t radically transform the landscape of the game overnight,” he said, “they will be a destination and finish line for AfricanAmerican youngsters who are cradling a stick and ball.”

“Hampton gives them a vision, a dream and a purpose.”

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Baseball weathers Crimson Storm

Photo by Krista Pylant

Gripping the stitches: Cameron pitcher Javarias Banks gets ready to sling a pitch to the plate during the Aggies’ 5-1 afternoon win against Southern Nazarene University on Feb. 13. The Black and Gold swept the Crimson Storm in a doubleheader, brining the team to 7-0 on the season and earning the team’s first home victory.

Jacob Jardel Sports Editor

@JJardel_Writing The Aggie baseball team continued their hot start on the new season, defeating Southern Nazarene University in a homeand-home series on Feb. 12 and 13.

The first of the doubleheaders saw two commanding Aggie victories in Bethany on the first day, while the second saw CU winning their first two games at McCord Field this season.

Game 1

Cameron kept the Crimson Storm at bay in the early innings to take the first game of the series 7-1.

Both teams started off with a quiet first inning, but the Aggies came back in the second to tally the first runs of the game when redshirt junior Cody Knight scored on an SNU error. Redshirt senior Nate Hale would later come home on a single from junior Jorden Fields.

The next two innings remained scoreless until Southern Nazarene broke senior Bryan Belote’s no-hitter with a fifth-inning double, scoring the runner on base after a Cameron fielding error.

The Black and Gold would seal the win in the next two frames. Junior Cody Bower singled up the middle to score freshman Colton Adams in the sixth.

The final inning saw an offensive explosion from the Aggies. Lone Star Conference (LSC) hitter of the week Bronson Pulgados homered to right field to start the frame before redshirt sophomore Cole Williams drove in Hale on an RBI double.

Two unearned runs from Williams and Bower would close out CU’s four-run seventh, and freshman Andrew Garza would strike out the final three batters to seal the Aggies’ win.

Belote (2-0) held SNU hitless throught the first four-plus innings, finishing the game after allowing one run in five innings.

Game 2 CU came out swinging the next game, with early runs making the difference in their 13-4 win.

The scoring started in the first inning for the Aggies after a fielding error allowed senior Tyler McKinzie to score. Hale scored the next inning on a sacrifice f ly from Williams, and Bower would score on another error to bring the score to 3-0 after two.

The Crimson Storm narrowed the gap after two runs in the third inning, but CU answered in the top of the fourth.

Pulgados singled home senior Jonathan Reyes to start the Aggie scoring outburst in the frame. Knight brought home McKinzie on an RBI single before senior Brandon Wright drove in Knight and Pulgados on a double to center field.

Wright and Hale came back around to score after the SNU pitcher hit two consecutive batters with the bases loaded.

A wild pitch brought Williams home and cap the scoring at seven runs in the inning, brining the overall tally to 10-2.

Southern Nazarene came back with two runs in the bottom of the fourth, but they would stay quiet for the rest of the game.

Cameron scored three more insurance runs in the top of the ninth off McKinzie’s three-run homer to left, brining the score to its final total.

Junior Matt Glasmann (2-0) earned the win after pitching a f lawless fifth inning in relief of starter Dirk Masters and fellow reliever Blake Welch.

Game 3

Cameron carried the momentum from the doubleheader the previous day into the first game, overcoming an early deficit to defeat Southern Nazarene 5-1 at home.

The Crimson Storm drove in the opening run at the top of the first inning, but Cameron was able to bounce back with a run of their own in the home half off of McKinzie’s solo home run. Williams drove a pitch over the center field wall in the

bottom of the second to give the Aggies a 2-1 lead.

Southern Nazarene would not score again for the rest of the game as the Black and Gold offense clicked into gear, sealing the victory as the game went on.

The Aggies got on the board next in the fourth inning when Hale stole home. Two innings later, Bower’s two RBI single scored Hale and Fields.

Senior Javarias Banks (1-0) picked up the win for the Aggies, allowing only one run on five hits and two walks. He struck out 10 in his six innings on the bump.

Redshirt senior Logan Fanning kept the lead intact in the final inning, allowing no hits and striking out a batter.

Game 4

Hale hit a two-bagger of his own to score cook. Hale later scored a run on Fields’ tworun shot to left field to end the Black and Gold’s second-inning scoring spree at seven runs.

Both teams’ bats remained quiet for another inning and a half before CU came out with another big frame in the bottom of the fourth. Wright scored another run off Cook’s second double of the game. Cook later came home with Fields on Williams’ two-bagger.

Bower drove Williams in with a single to bring the score to 13-1.

Cameron allowed only two runs – one unearned – the rest of the game en route to the run-rule victory.

Senior Codey Upton (1-0) earned the victory after allowing two unearned runs off six hits in five innings. He struck out five and hit a batter.

Cameron is now 7-0 on the season, while Southern Nazerene drops to 0-8.

Their next match is a four-game series against Texas A&M-Kingsville Mar. 4-6 to open up LSC play.

The Black and Gold allowed two unearned runs and made four errors in the field, but their offense more than made up for it in their seven-inning 13-3 win.

This game saw Cameron jump on the board with the first runs of the game.

Pulgados hit a single, scoring redshirt junior Haydon Bogard. Hale later drove in Pulgados with a single up the middle, bringing the score to 2-0 going into the second frame.

The Crimson Storm answered back with an unearned run of their own at the top of the inning, but the Aggies replied with a big home half.

The scoring barrage started when Williams hit his second homer of the series to bring the score up to 3-1. McKinzie later singled to left to drive in Bower before eventually scoring on a Wright single to center field.

Photo by Krista Pylant Senior Tyler Cook Run it down: Junior Bronson Pulgados eyes a fly ball knocked in a double to as he runs to make the play. Pulgados played a big role in bring Wright home, and the Aggies’ four-game sweep against Southern Nazarene.

Ray scores 31 in Aggie loss Jacob Jardel

double figures, scoring 15 and 14 respectively.

Sports Editor The teams had comparable @JJardel_Writing individual statistics, with each team Cameron’s men’s basketball team coming within four of each other in all but one category: free throws. lost their final game on the road While the Black and Gold went despite a career night from senior 10 of 15 from the charity stripe, guard Deondre Ray. The Aggies and Rams were close ASU finished 22 for 27 from the line, chalking up an 81.5 percent in almost every category, but the Angelo State took advantage of CU mark compared to Cameron’s 66.7 percent. fouls to pull ahead with the 82-75 Angelo came out of the gates win on Feb. 17 in San Angelo, on a 9-0 run as the Aggies went Texas. scoreless for four minutes as they Ray led the Aggies with 31 tried to get on the board. Ray later points on 12-for-19 shooting in 39 miutes on the court. This total was hit a three to cut the Ram lead to 14-12 with just under 14 minutes Photo courtesy of Mike Mazzo the highest for a CU player since left in the first half. But ASU held Craig Foster’s 32 points against Take it to the house: Senior Deondre Ray drives the lane against a on to the wire-to-wire lead for the defender during a game against Angelo State. The Black and Gold lost to Texas A&M-Commerce on Feb. 5, half, closing with a last-second the Rams 82-75 on Feb. 17., despite Ray’s career night scoring 31 points. 2014. jumper to go into the break 32-26.

Seniors Cameron Lee and The loss drops the Aggies to an 8-4 conference record and a four-way Jamaal Brantley also finished in The second half saw more of the tie in the Lone Star Conference standings with two games left to play.

same, with the Rams leading by as many as 15 points. The Aggies were able to cut the deficit to within five in the final 12 seconds after Lee drained consecutive three pointers.

However, two more late points from Angelo sealed the fate for the Black and Gold.

Tre Bennett led ASU with 19 points, while Stedman Allen contributed 18 to the Angelo win.

Cameron is now 15-9 on the season, 8-4 in the Lone Star Conference. The loss drops them into a four-way tie for the conference lead with one game to go.

The Aggies will follow up their homecoming game with the season finale against Midwestern State on Feb. 27 in the Aggie Gym. The game will broadcast live on the ESPN 3 streaming service.