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Voter registration deadline soon TUESDAY IS THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER BEFORE PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES

By Hope Dean Alligator Staff Writer

If you haven’t registered to vote yet, your time is running out.

Tuesday marks the last day Gainesville residents can register to vote or change their party affiliation for the country’s presidential preference primaries and the city’s local elections.

Both will happen March 17, said TJ Pyche, the spokesperson for the Alachua County Supervisor of Elections.

Sixteen names are on the sample Democratic ballot for the presidential primaries, although eight are no longer running.

Among those still in the race are Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg, Pete Buttigieg, Tulsi Gabbard, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer and Elizabeth Warren.

Donald Trump and other lowpolling candidates make up the Republican ballot.

Voters will also decide on three seats on the Gainesville City Commission that are open — at-large, District 2, and District 3 seats, Pyche said.

Former mayoral candidate Scherwin Henry, suspended attorney Gabe Kaimowitz, former bridal shop owner Paul Rhodenizer and legal aid Reina Saco are currently bidding for the Commission at-large seat.

Commissioner Harvey Ward Jr. is running for re-election in

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District 2, challenged by real estate consultant David Walle.

David Arreola is also running for re-election in District 3, challenged by former mayoral candidate Jennifer Reid.

People can register to vote online or at a local voter registration agency.

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Richard Doan, a 19-year-old business administration and telecommunication sophomore, solemnly pays respects during a vigil honoring the second anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that killed 17. The vigil was held on Plaza of the Americas Friday evening.

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BASEBALL

Smith, UF complete sweep of Marshall

By Bryan Matamoros Sports Writer

Brady Smith waited on deck for his fourth at-bat of the season, looking toward the diamond as he practiced his swing repeatedly.

At the plate was shortstop Josh Rivera, who struck out looking on a pitch from Marshall right-hander Bryan Callaly.

Smith was a combined 0 for 3 against the Thundering Herd throughout the weekend. And seeing Rivera get fanned right before heading into the box did him no favors.

The buildup didn’t affect Smith’s confidence, however, as he notched his first hit of the season with a solo home run to break Florida’s deadlock with Marshall in the bottom of the fourth.

Smith wasn’t done yet, though.

The junior nailed a three-run homer over the left-field wall just two innings later to give his team a six-run lead and put a stop to the Thundering Herd’s comeback attempt.

Smith’s offensive display on Sunday helped the No. 4 Gators to a 15-8 victory over Marshall at Alfred A. McKethan Stadium.

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UF students of color sometimes feel overshadowed in views on gun policy

By Samantha Chery Alligator Staff Writer

Juwan Parrish doesn’t want to talk about it. The situation is complicated.

A few months ago, his teenage nephew had his best friend die in his arms after being shot. Last year, he found out through Facebook that one of his childhood friends was shot and killed at 25 years old.

“Shootings in America are so common that they are so easy to overlook until it’s somebody you know,” he said.

Parrish, a 25-year-old UF law student and a member of the Black Law Students Association, grew up in Des Moines, Iowa. He said

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the black community’s experience with gun violence is what has influenced the call for gun control.

But communities of color can be overshadowed by other activists.

Friday marked the two-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which left 14 students and three staff members dead.

Survivors created March For Our Lives, a national organization that lobbies in Tallahassee and Washington, D.C., for gun reform.

But as media exposure focuses on white or white-passing activists, some wonder if activists of color are being overshadowed in the conversation.

‘I wish we were portrayed as regular people’: gun control activists of color MSD alumna Anisha Saripalli didn’t choose to lose one of her best friends, Carmen Schentrup, in the MSD shooting. As a woman of color, she also wasn’t chosen by the media to be the face of the gun control movement.

Although March For Our Lives frontrunners are mostly white, gun violence disproportionately affects communities of color. Homicide rates for black Americans are eight times higher than for white Americans, according to the National Council on Family Relations.

In 2019, more than 15,000 people in the United States were killed as a result of gun violence not including suicides, the Gun Vio-

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lence Archive found. And African American children are 10 times more likely to die from a firearm homicide than white children and Asian children, according to research published in the scientific journal Pediatrics.

“People of color have been going through this for years, and they’ve been activists for years,” Saripalli, an 18-year-old UF biomedical engineering sophomore and the March For Our Lives Gainesville treasurer, said. “But once this upper-middle class white community got affected, that’s when people started paying attention...It’s sad.”

The difference in media exposure can

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Museum’s Challenge Where: Smathers Library, located at 1508 Union Road When: Feb. 17 from 8:30 a.m.5:00 p.m.

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Who are the Student Government executive candidates?

You can vote for executives and senators on Feb. 18 and 19

By Chasity Maynard Alligator Staff Writer

PRESIDENT

Matthew Diaz, 22

PRESIDENT

From: Miami, Florida Major: Political science senior Previous experience: Two-term Inspire Party senator, District D

After it rained, Matthew Diaz used to go outside and pick up snails from the road so people wouldn’t step on them, his mom Patricia Diaz said.

She said he’s had a natural drive to help others since he was a little kid.

“He was a baby. I would call him my little old soul,” she said. “He was always just a gentle, kind, sweet kid.”

Trevor Pope, 22

From: Gainesville, Florida Major: First-year law student Previous experience: Former Impact Party senator, chairman of the SG allocations committee

Nicholas Cassisi said his grandson Trevor Pope has always made sure everyone had a voice.

“He would always look for the person in the back, and he brought them to the front,” he said of Pope’s time on Preview, UF’s orientation staffers.

Diaz said his top issues going into the election are a funding crisis for student organizations, the university’s racial equity and gender equity score, mental health resources and the campus climate survey.

He is the founding president of the Indigenous-American Student Association. He co-filed a resolution to unsuccessfully impeach the current Impact-affiliated Student Body President Michael Murphy in Fall, due to his role in bringing Donald Trump Jr. to speak on campus. Trump Jr. was paid $50,000 for the speaking engagement, which came from student fees.

Pope, a 22-year-old law student at the Levin College of Law, served as the allocations chair while earning his undergraduate degrees. Pope received two bachelor’s in economics and political science in May. Pope wants to lead by example by working bipartisanly this semester, he said. He wants to collaborate between SG parties to better represent students.

Born in UF Shands Hospital and raised in Gainesville by UF alumni, Pope said he always knew he wanted to attend UF. In addition to serving in the Senate, he was a Preview Staffer, served on the Freshman Leadership Council and was a Cicerone — a UF tour guide.

VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

Emily Hyden, 21

From: Gainesville, Florida Major: International studies junior Previous experience: Helped lead a protest for more blue lights on fraternity row in Fall 2019

Emily Hyden said the legal system nearly tore her family apart as a child.

Now, she wants to be a lawyer.

When she was 13, Hyden’s father was arrested by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and subsequently convicted on drug charges.

Instead of being locked away for a decade, she said, the judge showed compassion and gave her dad 60 days in prison and five years of community service.

As Inspire’s candidate for Student Body vice president, Hyden hopes to use that same compassion if she is elected.

“Going into everything as vice president with a big heart and going in with compassion, going in with understanding and going in with the fullest intent of truly using my position to better the status and better the situation of Gators,” she said.

Lauredan Official, 21

From: Orlando, Florida Major: Advertising junior Previous experience: Chairman of the SG Leadership and Service Division cabinet for SG leadership

On the day that Lauredan approached a lectern on Gator Walk to announce his candidacy for Student Body vice president, people shouted.

“That is black excellence right there!” they screamed at Official.

He said a lot of his mentees from Black Student Union, what he calls “the clout family,” showed up to support him.

Official makes everyone feel included, his friend Max Toppin said.

“Whenever someone says Lauredan’s name, everyone can associate it with positivity or someone who’s nice or just overall goodness, because he’s made an impact in probably most people’s that I know’s life,” the 19-year-old finance sophomore said.

Official was the SG leadership development and involvement cabinet director — which offically defines SG leadership behavior. He oversaw subcabinets such as community involvement, communications, innovation and leadership development and involvement.

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TREASURER

Matthew Barocas, 20

TREASURER

From: Miami, Florida Major: History and political science junior Previous experience: College of Liberal Arts senator

Matthew Barocas loves politics and loves to bake.

The history and political science junior bakes bread and pastries for his friends during his free time. He said there are different kinds of bread for different people.

“I try to find a bread that matches their personality, which sounds like a BuzzFeed quiz, but it’s fun,” Barocas said. “Some people are like a sweet bread. Some people are a spicy bread.

Some people are salty bread.”

Barocas is the president of UF College Democrats and was the organization’s treasurer from Summer 2018 to Spring 2019. He volunteered for Inspire’s campaign before he was elected.

As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, Barocas said issues concerning that community are important to him. He also advocates for environmental issues and said he wants to make the world more welcoming.

Jessica Jesurajan, 20

From: Tampa, Florida Major: Accounting junior Previous experience: Member of budget and appropriations committee, Accounting senator, formerly Impact Party

Jessica Jesurajan was born in India and raised in Singapore until second grade. When she moved to the United States, she said she was bullied because of the way she spoke and dressed.

“They would just tell me that I didn’t belong here,” Jesurajan said.

Jesurajan is now the president of the UF Indian Students Association and a 20-year-old accounting junior. She served as a senator and on the budget and appropriations committee and on the judiciary committee prior to her appointment.

“That was just a passion, a personal mission of mine,” she said.

“Just to make sure that everybody did feel that it was like an open space, that people shouldn’t feel different, and in their own skin especially.”

She said if she becomes treasurer, her main goals are to make sure everyone takes proactive measures to ensure student organizations receive funding. She plans to make deadlines clearer for everyone and create a finance feedback form to improve communication with student organizations.

Vote on Feb. 18 and 19 from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. at various locations across campus The list below is provided by the SG Elections Commission Chairwoman Amanda Matyk.

◊ Southwest Recreation Center – Social Lounge ◊ Springs Complex – Area Office C2022 ◊ Reitz Union – Computer Lab ◊ Norman – Education Library Computer Lab ◊ Murphree Area Conference Room ◊ Marston Science Library

◊ Levin College of Law – Burton Geer Hall Student Commons ◊ Jennings Hall – Library ◊ Health Science Center – BITS Library Computer Lab ◊ Heavener Hall – RM 202 ◊ Broward Hall – Broward Recreation Room

***Bring a photo ID and know your UF ID number, or bring your Gator 1 card to vote.***

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‘Their legacy will live on’: Students remember MSD victims

By Meghan McGlone Alligator Staff Writer

The soft glow of candles illuminated students’ faces. Some of them were in tears. Seventeen white luminaries with the names of the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting surrounded them, serving as a reminder of the painful second anniversary.

March for Our Lives Gainesville hosted a vigil on Plaza of the Americas Friday night to honor the victims.

The bells of Century Tower played a melody as four MSD alumni recounted the tragedy that happened two years ago. They talked about the friends they lost and recalled the day of the shooting.

UF President Kent Fuchs and Helen Kirklin of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America spoke. They were accompanied

by D’Andra Mull, the new vice

president for Student Affairs.

Fuchs talked about how his son was at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University during the shooting in 2007. He said he was inspired by the work that students are doing to end gun violence.

After the speeches, students lit 17 candles and read aloud the names of the shooting victims.

They held a 2 minute and 19 second moment of silence, representing two years after the shooting and 19 lost lives, including the deaths by suicide of Sydney Aiello and Calvin Desir, survivors of the shooting.

Brandon Abzug, an MSD alumnus, said he decided to speak at the vigil because he wanted to tell others about what he learned in the past two years of his life.

He also wanted to honor his late friend, Carmen Schentrup, who was accepted to UF. “This is not about us, it’s about those who passed away,” he said.

In the past two years, the pub-

lic has become more aware of gun violence tragedies due to March for Our Lives, which formed after the shooting. The tragedies have helped change public opinion, Abzug, a 19-year-old UF political science and criminology sophomore, said. But he says there is more to do.

Abzug advocates for banning automatic assault weapons over a certain magazine capacity, enforcing universal background checks and requiring gun licenses.

“We need a multi-faceted approach because the issue is very complex,” he said. “There’s not one single solution.”

Phoebe Houle, a 19-year-old UF family, youth and community sciences sophomore, went to school near MSD. She said the day of the shooting was a day full of heartbreak and pain, and she will remember it forever.

“I wanted to honor the people that have lost friends and family and be there for people who need

Activists want diversity in coverage MSD, from pg. 1 be seen in her number of Twitter followers, which is almost 700, compared to her verified friends. David Hogg has about 1 million followers, and Emma González has about 1.6 million.

However, she knows that when she gets hundreds of likes on a tweet, either Hogg or González retweeted it. The duo has recognized their increased power and are using it to lift up more people of color, Saripalli said.

“March For Our Lives strides in the correct direction of getting people (and) activists of color, not just from Parkland, but from around the country,” she said. “They’re having their voices heard.”

Still, she wants March For Our Lives in the media to be more representative of her high school’s ethnic makeup.

For Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School’s 2017-2018 school year, 56 percent of students were white, 22 percent were Hispanic, 11 percent were black, 7 percent were Asian, 3 percent were multiracial and 1 per-

cent belonged to other ethnic groups, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

MSD alumnus Kevin Trejos also wanted to lead as a Latino gun control activist.

After the shooting, he knew he needed to use the influx of media attention to make a statement against gun violence. He was invited to meet with Cameron Kasky, a prominent leader of the movement, and other influential students a few nights after the tragedy to plan a demonstration that would make an impact.

They decided on a march and a movement.

It was in that living room meeting that Trejos, now a 20-year-old UF political science and finance sophomore, became one of the founders of March For Our Lives.

As part of the group, he advocated for background checks, risk protection orders and restrictions on magazine-style guns. Risk protection orders allow law enforcement to temporarily restrict a potentially dangerous person from possessing a gun.

Trejos disagreed with how reports narrowly showed his high school as white, affluent and entitled.

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Isabella Garcia, a 21-year-old telecommunication and political science junior, lights a candle in remembrance of Joaquin Oliver, a victim of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting at a UF vigil on the shooting’s second anniversary.

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Candles were lit to symbolize and memorialize the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting on its second anniversary at a vigil on Plaza of the Americas. support,” she said. “Their legacy will live on.”

Houle participated in March for Our Lives and said she thinks not much has changed regarding gun violence.

“Luckily, the people that come out to events like this and par-

“I wish we were portrayed as regular people, as we are,” he said.

When he did one of his television interviews, a reporter asked about Joaquin Oliver, one of the victims who was Venezuelan, despite Trejos not knowing him well.

“I guess because people saw that I was Colombian American and he was Venezuelan American, we would somehow have some sort of like, Latino connection,” he said. “I’m more than just my basic demographic composition.”

Trejos sees great importance in activist diversity.

“People want to see themselves in those they look up to,” he said.

It’s not necessarily that people of color hate white people, he added. It’s about addressing the fact that minorities have to put in “10 times more work to be recognized.”

‘None of us can be free if one of us is being oppressed’: preferred gun control regulations After starting school at UF, Trejos stepped back from March For Our Lives because it rehashed memories he wanted to forget, he said. But that doesn’t mean he’s done with gun control activism.

He now works with UF’s Student Government as the assistant treasurer to advocate for school safety and other causes he’s passionate about. He said he wants laws that keep guns away from the mentally ill.

Parrish isn’t an activist, but he’s active on Twitter to keep up with today’s reformers.

But even while scrolling through the app, he has seen the disparity in attention given to white activists versus those who are black or brown.

“When it comes to minority activists, they have to be very unique in order to gain that media attention,” Parrish said. “When it comes to the white activists, their standard tends to be a lot lower.”

He said the media is looking for someone likeable, such as clean water advocate and person of color Amariyanna Copeny, better known by her nickname “Little Miss Flint.”

But oftentimes, the press chooses a white person who they believe will be more relatable to their audience, he said.

The double standard permeates through gun control activism as well, he added.

When black communities advocate for gun control laws, people think it’s unwarranted because of black people’s stereotypical role as the main perpetrators in nationwide gun violence, he said. But when white communi-

ticipate — they definitely want to make changes,” Houle said. “So there’s always hope.” @meggmcglone mmcglone@alligator.org

ties rally for gun control, Parrish said no one rebuts with the mass shootings where white shooters were responsible.

To combat gun violence and prevent mass shootings for both communities, Parrish hopes to see universal background checks for gun purchases. He also wants the government to address the racial disparities in gun policy.

“I’m looking for a candidate that is aware of the way that these gun or gun control laws are disproportionately applied to different race groups, specifically the way they’re applied to white people and black people,” he said.

For owning a gun illegally, a black person tends to have a harsher punishment than a non-black person, he said.

Research published by the Prison Policy Initiative supports the idea that decreasing punishments for less serious offenses could decrease the racial gap in criminal sentencing.

“They have a way of demonizing any black person who comes through the criminal system as a felon, and that’s just their way of keeping black people from owning guns,” Parrish said.

Mackintosh Joachim, the 20-year-old president of UF’s NAACP chapter, believes it would help if the black community had more guns.

Some historical activist gun owners include the Black Panther Party, a political group that advocated for self-defense and created citizen patrols to combat police brutality during the civil rights movement.

Joachim looks to the Black Panthers as the reason why he is a supporter of the Second Amendment and the state’s Stand Your Ground statute, which legally justifies the use or threatened use of force when in fear of being injured or killed.

As someone who hopes to get his gun license when he turns 21, he supports protecting gun ownership legislation because he believes guns could be used to defend against unwarranted killings at the hands of police.

“If the police is not there to protect and serve us, then we must protect ourselves,” he said.

He also fears that gun control and more extensive background checks would continue to bar people who committed nonviolent crimes, mostly poor white people and people of color, from obtaining a gun to defend themselves.

“None of us can be free if one of us is being oppressed,” he said. @SammyChery4276 schery@alligator.org

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Be there or be square: Satchel’s Pizza to open second location It will be located downtown

By Michelle Holder

Alligator Contributing Writer

Courtesy to The Alligator

Satch² will be featuring Detroit-style pizzas, like the one pictured, and square waffles.

A new Satchel’s Pizza location will bring an easier commute and an unexpected menu item.

Satch², the name of the new location, will be at the Fourth Avenue food park downtown.

The name is inspired by the square waffles and the square Detroit-style pizzas — prepared with a square base, cheese on the bottom, toppings in the middle and sauce on top — the restaurant plans to put on its menu.

Store owner Satchel Raye, 52, thinks it will attract more UF students.

“I’m a big fan of waffles, so I just wanted to introduce them,”

Raye said. “Having this new location gives me the perfect place to do it.”

The cost to put the new location together is still undetermined, but it is expected to be about $100,000, Raye said.

Besides having square menu items, the new location will accept credit cards instead of being cash-only like Satchel’s main location. It will also be open every day instead of just Tuesday to Saturday, Raye said.

Raye and his restaurant manager visited Detroit in the fall for a pizza tour to try different Detroit-style pizzas. Raye said the experience inspired him to reinvent his own recipe.

The new location downtown

is still a work in progress and is currently undergoing renovations, Raye said.

Mark Rodriguez, a daytime general manager at Satchel’s, will be co-owning and running the new restaurant location with Raye. He said he will be responsible for organizing and managing the new location, Rodriguez said “I think it’ll bring more awareness to the business itself, even though it’ll be kind of two separate businesses,” Rodriguez said.

Raye said he is hopeful for this restaurant to be opened by the end of summer or the beginning of fall. Until then, pizza, salad and calzones will be served at the original location of Satchel’s Pizza, at 1800 NE 23rd Ave.

Condom Crawl comes to Midtown V-Day weekend TWO UF ORGANIZATIONS GATHERED TO DISTRIBUTE CONDOMS AROUND MIDTOWN

By Ariana Aspuru Alligator Contributing Writer

A sea of red, green, blue and yellow condoms engulfed Midtown Saturday night.

As throngs of people arrived in Ubers and wrapped around the Midtown bars, members of Planned Parenthood Generation Action UF and the Women’s Student Association teamed up to hand out condoms and encourage safe sex.

The activity was appropriately named “The Condom Crawl.”

The 15-person group handed out between 100 to 150 forms of protection and contraception throughout the night, said Alexandra Ruiz, an assistant outreach director for Planned Parenthood.

Ruiz, a 19-year-old UF health science sophomore, said Alachua County’s rate of reported cases of sexually transmitted diseases is among the highest in the state of Florida. This high rate could be due to a lack of access to protection, she said.

“We want to make sure there is access for everyone, no matter what situation they are in,” Ruiz said.

Trojans, Planned Parenthood branded condoms, FC2

Female Condoms and dental dams were tossed up to the second floor of the plaza and distributed to those waiting in line for Fat Daddy’s.

Some people laughed while grabbing the condoms out of the air, while others opted to discreetly ask the group for a few.

The event, which Planned Parenthood hosts once a semester, was scheduled for Saturday because of the Valentine’s Day festivities, said Judianna Meyes-Sinnett, a 20-year-old UF elementary education senior and president of Planned Parenthood Generation Action at UF. During the evening, Planned Parenthood also encouraged people to fill out support cards, paperwork they use to contact supporters and encourage membership, MeyesSinnett said.

She said the response from crowds at Midtown Saturday was “overall positive,” as many people excitedly accepted condoms from the volunteers. Some even took a few minutes out of their night to discuss safe sex with the group, she said.

“People that care about us definitely get really excited to see us supporting and just being here,” Meyes-Sinnett said.

“They love to see that Planned Parenthood is still strong.”

One of those supporters was Connor Scruggs, a 21-yearold Santa Fe College student and bouncer for Grog House.

As he stood distributing wristbands and checking IDs,

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On Saturday night, Planned Parenthood Generation Action and the Women’s Student Association handed out condoms and other forms of protection to those in lines for bars at Midtown.

The Condom Crawl group passed by him about three times.

Each time, he took at least three condoms.

Scruggs said he thinks The Condom Crawl was positive for the community. He imagined those bringing home a special someone from the club would benefit the most from the event.

“You’ve got one (condom) from the club, and you just decreased your rate of having an STD,” he said. “Just like that.”

Following two attacks on women, authorities tell residents to be alert Both suspects were described as wearing a dark cloth over their faces The Alachua County Victim Services & Rape Crisis Center 218 SE 24th St., Gainesville, FL 32641 (352) 264-6760 or www.alachuacounty.us/depts/ css/victimservices Alachua County Sheriff’s Office Victim Services 2621 SE Hawthorne Road, Gainesville, FL 32641 (352) 384-3317 The State Attorney’s Office of Victim Services 120 W. University Ave., Gainesville, FL 32601 (352) 374-3670 or www.sao8.org/vicrights.html Peaceful Paths (352) 377-8255 (24-hour hotline), 1-800-393-7233 or www.peacefulpaths.org

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Authorities are advising Gainesville residents to stay alert after two women were attacked in separate assaults this past week.

Detectives with the Gainesville Police Department are investigating two individual attacks on women that occurred this past week, according to a UF public safety alert. In both incidents, the suspects got away, according to the alert.

On Feb. 10, at approximately 11:00 p.m., a woman walking in the 2500 block of Southwest 35th Place was attacked and dragged into the tree line by a man, the alert read. According to the alert, she was able to fight off the attacker and call for help.

Two days later, at around 7 a.m. Feb. 12, a woman was walking on the trail in Alfred Ring Park, located at 1801 NW 23rd Ave., when she was attacked and sexually battered by a man, according to the alert.

The man was last seen running toward Northwest 16th Ave., according to a Facebook post from GPD on Thursday.

The suspect in the first incident was described as between 6 feet and 6 feet 3 inches tall, a white male, between 20 and 30 years old, with brown/blond hair and a beard, according to the post. They were last seen wearing a dark hooded jacket with a dark cloth covering their face.

The suspect being sought for the second incident is described as a white male, between 30 and 40 years old, about 5 feet 6 inches to 5 feet 8 inches tall with light-colored eyes, who was last seen wearing dark clothing, according to the post.

Similar to the description of the first suspect, according to the post, the second suspect is also described as wearing a dark cloth over their face.

GPD has not determined if the suspect is the same in both of these incidents, according to the post.

Major Brad Barber, a University Police spokesperson, said UPD will “continue to look at our overall community and continue our increased patrols.”

Anyone with information regarding the incident is urged to contact the Gainesville Police Department at 352-955-1818 or text keyword GPDFL plus your tip to 274637 (CRIMES).

Samia Lagmis contributed to this report. adeluca@alligator.org @alexldeluca

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Bartram sets career-high to help Florida down Missouri on the road

By Graham Marsh Sports Writer

Florida guard Brylee Bartram caught the ball in the right corner with her back to the hoop. She immediately turned around and threw it up.

Count it.

A few possessions later, the freshman caught it at the top of the arc and let another one fly.

Swish.

She then received a pass from fellow freshman guard Lavender Briggs, who was double-teamed. Bartram shot from downtown for a third time early in the first quarter.

Bucket.

Bartram’s 3-for-3 start from beyond the arc set up the Gators nicely in their 75-67 win over Missouri (6-18, 3-8 SEC) on Sunday in Columbia, Missouri. With the victory, Florida improved to 1411 on the season and 5-7 in the SEC. It was a career day for Bartram. The Tampa native’s 6-for-11 three-point shooting night was good for 18 points against the Tigers. That was seven points better than her previous careerhigh.

Her hot shooting extended to two of her teammates in the second half. Briggs performed well after a sluggish first half to finish the game with 18 points. She was only 2 for 8 from beyond the arc, but her all-around performance was impactful.

The Provo, Utah, native sunk four of her six free throws and collected six rebounds.

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redshirt senior had 15 points on 6-for-9 shooting to be the third Gator in double-figure scoring for the game. Most of Williams’ contribution, like Briggs, was in the latter twenty minutes.

Eleven of her 18 came in the second half, including four from the free throw line.

Bartram’s hot start allowed for a strong finish from the other two. Her spreading of the floor created space for Briggs to attack the basket during a brutal shooting night and for Williams to work in the paint.

Florida point guard Kiara Smith had just five points on the night. The junior hit two free throws on the day and made one out of six attempts from the floor. Still, Briggs, Bartram and Williams shouldered plenty of the scoring load to stack the win column a little higher for the orange and blue.

Defensively, UF contained Missouri for most of the game, other than guard Aijha Blackwell. The freshman dropped 20 points on 43 percent shooting. Guard Amber Smith and forward Hayley Frank scored in double figures as well with 13 and 10, respectively.

But the difference on that end of the floor for UF was turnovers. Florida lost the ball about as much as it normally does, coughing it up 16 times. But uncharacteristically, the Gators won the turnover battle. They came into this game forcing just 13.7 turnovers a game. Against the Tigers, they forced 19.

This win comes at an opportune time for Newbauer’s squad, as the SEC Tournament is just just over two weeks away.

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Brylee Bartram scored a career-high 18 points in a road win on Saturday. All of her points came on three-pointers.

LACROSSE

Smith had 5 RBI on Sunday Kavanagh’s resolve only part of UF’s success BASEBALL, from pg. 1 “Just staying with my approach,” Smith said about his mindset coming into the box without a hit. “(I) got fortunate enough that it went over the fence, but (I) need to stay with it and move on to Tuesday’s game.”

Right-hander Nick Pogue earned the start on the mound for Florida (3-0) after standing out in fall ball, but his performance was less than ideal.

The sophomore gave up a single to Marshall (0-3) shortstop Geordon Blanton on his very first pitch and another one to first baseman Zach Inskeep just two batters afterward.

Later in the first inning, Blanton and Inskeep celebrated at the plate following right fielder Jordon Billups’ two-RBI double off Pogue.

The second inning didn’t go any better, as Blanton blasted a threerun homer to give Marshall a 5-2 advantage.

Pogue showed his emotions at the end of the second, taking off his glove and slamming it against the dugout wall in frustration.

Right-hander Christian Scott stepped on the mound in the third

to replace Pogue, who allowed six hits and five runs in just two innings pitched.

Unlike Pogue, Scott was on his game.

The Parkland, Florida, native gave up two hits and no runs in 2.2 innings pitched, allowing his offense to mount a comeback in the third and fourth.

UF’s first three batters -- center fielder Jud Fabian, left fielder Austin Langworthy and third baseman Kirby McMullen -- combined for an 8-of-12 showing at the plate and five RBI. Smith, who earned his first start of the season, registered five RBI on his own as the last batter in the lineup.

Scott’s unblemished outing and Florida’s hot bats gave way for UF to complete the sweep of its first opponent for the sixth-straight season.

“It was good to get tested early like this and keep our heads in the game, not get down on ourselves, and we hung with it,” coach Kevin O’Sullivan said. “We had a great weekend offensively. There wasn’t a lot of at-bats we gave away.” @bryan_2712 bmatamoros@alligator.org

The floor of the O’Connell Center was named after former Gators men’s basketball coach Billy Donovan. UF christened Billy Donovan Court with a win over Vanderbilt.

By Christian Ortega Sports Writer

For the second week in a row, junior midfielder Shannon Kavanagh proved to be the deciding factor for a Florida win.

Against No. 18 Colorado in the season opener, she scored the final goal to clinch the victory. That clutch gene reappeared this past weekend when she ended No. 2 Maryland’s 86-game home win streak by scoring the game-winner in the Gators’ upset over the defending national champions.

Her eight-goal performance was not just a career-high but it’s the second-best total in program history. To casual observers, it shouldn’t be an irregularity. Her ability to maintain composure as the odds of winning becomes a coin flip is to be expected of a back-to-back Tewaaraton Watch List member.

Coach Amanda O’Leary sees things differently.

“Everybody had to do their job in order for that play to succeed,” she said. “People had to keep those defenders occupied on the backside. And I think that’s just where we’ve grown tremendously, is peo-

ple doing their jobs and doing them very, very well.”

Against the Terrapins, the Gators’ success followed the same pattern shown last week. Lose the first draw control, give up the game’s first goal and never allow either side to gather enough momentum to pull away early.

In fact, through two games, it would not be surprising for Florida’s record to be reversed.

Against Colorado, Florida’s offense stalled due to turnovers. They cut that total in half against the Terps, ending with only seven. But on Saturday, they allowed 41 total shots, which was compounded by their 26 fouls. After Florida led the Buffaloes in draw controls, Maryland finished the game with a +11 margin.

But the only stat that matters is goals scored. Through two games, Florida has maintained a positive goal differential as they keep an undefeated record.

Part of that falls in line with Kavanagh’s dominance. In two games, she’s scored as many goals (12) as she tallied through five games last year. There’s also redshirt junior middie Brianna Harris, who tallied

Walton reaches 900th career win over the weekend UF softball coach Tim Walton won his 900th career game on Friday when the Gators defeated North Dakota State 5-0 in the Bubly Invitational.

her second hat trick this weekend.

Another veteran who rose to the occasion was senior Cara Trombetta, who held UMD’s Big Ten Preseason Player of the Year Brindi Griffin to one goal on five attempts.

But O’Leary’s pride is bolstered by the rise of her underclassmen.

Redshirt freshman goalie Sarah Reznick ended the game with 14 saves, the third-best in program history. And with 1.5 assists per game, freshman attacker Kaala Puglisi has kept the offense flowing.

Meanwhile, redshirt freshman midfielder Emerson Cabrera earned her first career hat trick Saturday while causing two turnovers.

The Gators have had their faults this season. But O’Leary’s team continued to find success and did so in one of the sport’s most hostile environments.

“We have a top 10 schedule,” O’Leary said. “That’s exciting.

We’re going to celebrate this victory, but come Monday, we’re gonna be back to business working on the next game.”

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MEN’S TENNIS

UF knocks off Wake Forest at ITA Team Indoor Championship

By Zachary Huber Sports Writer

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Sam Riffice won 6-3, 6-2 in singles on Sunday.

The Gators were in the same position against Wake Forest as they were Saturday night versus North Carolina. They collapsed in doubles for the second-straight match.

However, they didn’t let it affect the rest of their play like they did Saturday.

Florida surged back and dominated singles to seal the 4-1 consolation-round win over No. 6 Wake Forest Sunday evening in Madison, Wisconsin, at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association National Team Indoors Championship.

In doubles, it all came down to No. 13 junior Oliver Crawford and sophomore Sam Riffice on Court 1 for No. 3 Florida (11-2).

Before that, No. 24 senior Johannes Ingildsen and freshman Will Grant were the first to claim a 6-2 victory on Court 2 over the Wake Forest duo of Melios Efstathiou and Taha Baadi. Next, the Deacons’ Bar Botzer and Morgan Dill knocked off juniors Duarte Vale and Josh Goodger.

Crawford and Riffice rebounded after falling behind 5-3 to tie it at five apiece. But their comeback bid failed when Eduardo Nava and Henri Squire stole the next two games to give the doubles point to Wake Forest (8-3).

Shelton elected to shake up his singles lineup Sunday evening. He rolled out Goodger and No. 90 sophomore Greif on Courts 5 and 6 instead of Ingildsen and No. 112 freshman Blaise Bicknell.

Compared to its match against UNC, Florida responded well in the first set of singles.

It took the first set on five out of six courts.

The only UF player to lose was junior Andy Andrade on Court 4 when he lost 6-2 to Efstathiou.

Goodger and No. 90 Greif were not in the lineup in singles against Columbia on Friday or the Tarheels on Saturday but were given a chance to shine Sunday evening on Court 5.

He beat Eduardo 6-2, 6-1 in straight sets to tie the match at 1-1, and Greif won over No. 100 Sid Banthia 7-5, 6-3.

No. 4 Riffice quickly followed Goodger

and knocked off Squire 6-3, 6-2 on Court 2 to give the orange and blue their first lead of the match, 2-1.

Greif finished third, and his victory put UF a point away from sealing match point for UF. No. 17 Vale topped Baadi in the first 6-4 but fell by the same score in the second and was forced to go to a third set.

No. 23 Crawford and Andrade were the other two UF players required to go to a decisive third-set tiebreaker.

However, their matches would go unfinished because Vale clinched the match, winning 6-3 to secure the 4-1 Florida victory (6-4, 4-6, 6-3).

The Gators left the ITA National Team Indoors Championship with a 2-1 record, notching two top-10 ranked wins over No. 9 Columbia and No. 6 Wake Forest. They are off next weekend but begin SEC play on Feb. 28 against Alabama (7-2) at home at 5 p.m. @zacharyahuber zhuber@alligator.org

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Homecoming: During a night of celebration, Gators stay poised in win

By Evan Lepak Sports Writer

Saturday night was a spectacle.

The 10,000 fans that loaded into the O’Connell Center weren’t in attendance just to watch a basketball game. They came to help welcome home the pioneer who molded Florida men’s basketball into an elite national championship-winning program.

The ovation for former UF head coach Billy Donovan when he entered out onto the court, the one that now showcases his name, at halftime was deafening.

And deservedly so.

During 19 seasons at Florida, Donovan accumulated 467 wins, four Final Four appearances and two national championship titles.

His assistant coaches admired him, his players loved him, and that was evident by the abundant amount of them that traveled to

Gainesville just to support him.

“When I look at my name down there, I don’t just look at my name, I look at a lot of other people and their names,” Donovan said.

“We’ve got an unbelievable group of guys that all made the trip and the effort to come here...For you guys to come back and share in this means the world to me.”

Twenty-eight former Gator players — including Bradley Beal, Joakim Noah, Al Horford and Chris Chiozza — were courtside on Saturday to show support for a person that changed their lives in so many ways.

The honor was well deserved, and the commemoration of a Florida legend was flawless.

The current Gators, though, still had a game to play.

Despite the distractions, Florida (16-9, 8-4 SEC) denied any chance of a letdown against Vanderbilt (9-16, 1-11 SEC), upending the Commodores by 18 to place a figurative bow

on a perfect night for the program.

UF showcased its ability to grasp the maturity necessary to win against an inferior opponent at home on a night overshadowed by things not really related to their basketball game.

“I was a little bit concerned,” UF coach Mike White said, referring to all of the distractions. “But I also thought the whole deal with the renaming of the court would bring a lot of positivity into the environment and electricity.”

Florida certainly fed off of that extra energy in the first half, taking a 29-point lead into halftime that helped cause Vandy coach Jerry Stackhouse and his flashy green suit to be escorted from the game after late in the half after two technical fouls.

The Commodores did make the game more interesting in the second half, but it didn’t matter.

The game was already over and nothing

was going to spoil what transpired at the arena that night.

UF has now won back-to-back games to help garner some momentum heading into the final six games of the regular season.

Two matchups with Kentucky, a rematch with LSU, and a home game with fellow NCAA Tournament hopeful Arkansas still remain.

Offensively, the team has shown flashes of brilliance over the past week; averaging over 80 PPG combined in its last two contests.

That offensive input against some of the top-tier teams left on its schedule will be necessary to potentially pick up a couple of upsets.

A win over UK or LSU would put Florida in great position to lock up an NCAA Tournament bid, barring a setback against Georgia or Tennessee. @evanmplepak elepak@alligator.org

SOFTBALL

Gators run-rule Lions, have a close 7 innings with Rattlers

By Payton Titus Sports Writer

Five hits. Four runs. One player: Charla Echols.

The Michigan State transfer has served as a major player in the lineup and on defense so far this season for the Gators, but Sunday, her numbers leaped off the stat sheet.

Thanks in part to the sophomore third baseman, Florida topped both Southeastern Louisiana and Florida A&M, 13-1 and 2-1, respectively, on Sunday in Gainesville.

At bat, Echols was four-for-four with three RBI and tied her career-high in hits during the first game of the day against SELU (8-3).

At third base, Echols notched two putouts against SELU and one against FAMU (0-10), having a hand in a total of eight outs.

With a full week of play under her belt in Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium, Echols lauded the fan-fueled environment.

“It’s a lot of excitement. Big crowds. The fans are amazing,” she said. “The energy is always good here, so it was a lot of fun. It definitely already feels like home.”

Senior Kendyl Lindaman, the other Big Ten transfer (from Minnesota) in the Gators’

lineup, had a productive day as well. The first baseman had two runs and two at-bats against the Lions and five putouts in the diamond.

In a game where UF (11-1) scored a season-high 13 runs, SELU went through seven out of nine pitchers in four and a half innings.

Jordan Roberts led the orange and blue with four RBI, followed by Echols and freshman Julia Cottrill, who each had three.

As a team, Florida had 27 at-bats against those seven pitchers, having worked through its full lineup and then some in the bottom of the first. The victory marked UF’s sixth runrule win of the season.

In the rumble of the reptiles, however, the Gators did not have such luck.

Rattlers pitcher Nadia Zenteno held Florida scoreless with a quick three-up, three-down first inning. FAMU’s first batter, Jamesia Stoudemire, smacked a home run off a pitch from Elizabeth Hightower to give her team the first and only lead over the Gators by any team in the weekend-long invitational.

Florida finally answered back with a home run of its own at the bottom of the third from junior Hannah Adams to tie the game at 1-1.

An RBI single from Roberts drove Echols

home for her fourth run of the day. Roberts’ hit changed the tide, giving the Gators a 2-1 lead at the end of the third.

In the circle against FAMU, Hightower and Natalie Lugo, the latter stepping in at the top of the fifth, allowed only two hits and combined for 11 strikeouts.

After an up and down opener in Tampa marked by preseason and post-Kelly Barnhill, Amanda Lorenz jitters, this week was able to serve as a crucial confidence boost for Florida before it flies to the west coast for the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic next Friday through Sunday in Palm Springs, California.

But according to coach Tim Walton, the mindset and objective will remain the same, no matter who the opponents are or how high they’re ranked.

“Ultimately, we try to work really hard to prepare for us,” Walton said. “I think that when you prepare for yourselves, you shouldn’t elevate and raise your game, you shouldn’t drop your game to your opponent.

You should be able to stay and maintain consistency.” @petitus25 ptitus@alligator.org

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Kendyl Lindaman had eight hits over the weekend.

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