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Vol. 63 Issue 14
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The HutchCC men earned a hard-fought weekend overtime victory over Colby
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Battle of the sexes Former male athletes regularly scrimmage the Blue Dragon women’s basketball team
Photo by Shelby Spreier/Collegian The Hutchinson Community College’s women’s basketball team practices against a team of males, all former basketball players, to help them prepare for games. By Colin Shields Staff Writer
On September 20, 1973, Billie Jean King played Bobby Riggs in what would be dubbed “The Battle of the Sexes”, a tennis match that King won. These days, the Hutchinson Community College women’s basketball team continues the tradition. The Blue Dragons regularly scrimmage a group of former athletes, all of which are male, for multiple hours a week in preparation for their upcoming games. The team thinks highly of the four guys who will come out and scrimmage them. “The guys have been very important to us, because when we have them we
don’t have to play against each other, and they usually simulate the other team,” said Blue Dragon sophomore guard Tor’e Alford. “We play against them, subbing in and out as we would in a game, so it’s less on our bodies.” Two of the practice players come from nearby Haven High School, located southeast of Hutchinson. Blue Dragons assistant coach Phil Anderson reached out to both Wyatt Carmichael and Skylar Shingleton to see if they would be interested in coming on to help them out. “Coach Anderson, he reached out to me and made me feel like part of the team,” Carmichael said. “I wanted to come and
compete every day, as I love the sport of basketball and got to play for a year for the (Blue Dragon) men’s team.” On the other hand, it has been a learning experience for Shingleton. “I have learned many new unique offenses and defenses,” he said. “From running them, I now know why some offenses are really hard to defend.” The Blue Dragons have been on a hot streak, winning 10 in a row and have avenged three of their four losses early in the year. That win streak has enabled them to climb into a first-place tie with Independence in the Jayhawk Conference. The Blue Dragons believe the guys have been essential to their success.
“They help prepare us by playing like the other team, running their sets and offense so we can get a better idea of how it all works,” Alford said. Carmichael has learned throughout the year from the women’s team that “You definitely don’t have to be the biggest or meanest to win, you just have to have the fight in you that’s needed to win games.” The Blue Dragons will travel to Garden City next Wednesday to take on the Garden City Broncbusters at 5:30 p.m. to wrap up their regular season before moving on to bracket play of the Region 6 Women’s Basketball Tournament located at Tony’s Pizza Events Center in Salina.
Professor proclivity By Jayshaun Jones Staff Writer
This being the week of Valentine’s Day, it’s fitting to tell the story of one of a Hutchinson Community College campus couple. Kim and Jesse Newberry are two professors at HutchCC. Kim Newberry is a sociology professor, while Jesse is a Computer Support Associate Professor/ Coordinator. But there’s more to these two than sociology and computers. Let’s dive into life with HutchCC’s power duo. First, to understand how their relationship works you have to know the story of how they met. “We kind of found each other on MySpace, which is like Facebook for old people,” Jesse said. “We also met through Match.com,” Kim said. “He had a profile and I had the barebones of one, you know, just enough so I can man shop.” The story gets even better. Kim tells the story from a Nov. 2008 meeting. “I went out to dinner with a friend and
I looked at her and I said ‘oh my god,’ that’s the guy, that’s the guy I saw on the internet,” Kim said. Jesse was bartending at the restaurant Kim and her friend were dining at. Kim and her friend went up to the bar and had some drinks. Afterward, Kim slid into Jesse’s direct messages, and the rest is history. Being a couple that works in the same place is not the real reason they are a power duo. They rarely see each other at all at work. “We have to plan for when we can meet. Sometimes we will go on walks, or out to lunch or something,” Kim said. Their relationship stretches beyond that. They have a son, 9-year-old Jackson. He loves to play video games and pretend he is streaming, while wondering why he doesn’t have a YouTube channel. Other things that Jackson likes to do are watch “Star Wars” and other Disney movies with Jesse. Kim and Jesse also have activities that they like to do together as a couple that they didn’t think they would enjoy See Newberry, Page 3
Photo by Lee Wellman/Collegian Kim and Jesse Newberry, both professors at Hutchinson Community College.
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Upcoming events
Feb. 18 — Spring Fever Concert (vocal jazz) at Stringer Fine Arts Center, 7 p.m. Feb. 19-20 — Track & Field at Region VI Indoor Championships, Pittsburg Feb. 19 — Softball at Murray State (Oklahoma) at 12 p.m. Feb. 19 — Baseball at Rose State (Oklahoma) at 1 p.m.
College Student Weather Report Friday High: 53; Low 26 Some warmer weather after Thursday’s snow. Saturday High: 49; Low 38 A warm day for a Kansas winter. Sunday High: 66; Low 40 A taste of spring in February. Weather source: accuweather.com
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