April 19, 2019 Collegian

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April 19 , 2019

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Vol. 60 Issue 19

Should you catcall?

A guide to common sense

Is there a woman walking by that you think looks really nice and should be hollered at?

Is it really necessary for you to call her out in public?

More on catcalling: Page 2: Opinion Page Editor Tabitha Barr says it’s never a compliment to catcall.

X Does she know you and know that you are trying to compliment her?

X

Page 3: If you have been harassed or catcalled on campus, there are outlets provided by the college to report to.

- See also some student comments about being catcalled.

Will you be respectful and not insult her based on her looks or appearance?

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NO!

Keep walking!

Catcalling running rampant on campus

By Shea Hubbs Staff Writer

Walking to a car, getting to class, going to a dorm room, buying groceries, working out, or even just going to the Kwik Shop. These are normal activities that people do everyday. Things that they should feel safe doing. But sadly that isn’t the case for women.

The Collegian had heard stories from several Hutchinson Community College women about being verbally harassed – or catcalled – on and around campus. Thus, The Collegian recently asked HutchCC students to share their catcalling stories, and here’s a sampling of their answers.

“Hey baby, your a-- is getting fat.”

“Lemme get your Snapchat.”

“Damn I haven’t had p---- in a while, you wanna help me fix that?”

These are just some of the things said to women.

Who mostly catcalls on campus?

When The Collegian asked a group of softball players, they all had a common answer – football players.

The women who live in the dorms have even made a name for these guys.

“They sit in the lobby and wait for us to walk out so they can yell at us.”

Alexis Way, a Wichita freshman said.

“We call them the ‘Lobby Boys’. There will be 20 in the lobby, commenting on my butt or something else about my body.”

Some softball players even said these ‘Lobby Boys’ follow women who don’t engage their advances.

What happens when these acts get reported? Most of the time, women are told to ignore it. Ignore the blatant harassment, and maybe you’ll be OK.

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But what happens if you try ignoring the comments, but they keep persisting?

They start following you, and you keep ignoring it. They’re behind you as you go into your dorm and now they know where you sleep.

“They don’t take ‘no’ for an answer,” said HutchCC softball player Brooklyn Johnson, an Andover sophomore.

“Someone on my team last year, they came forward and they said something, and it’s kind of like the mentality of ‘boys will be boys,’ but at the end of the day, we pay them to protect us and I don’t think they’re doing their job.”

This isn’t just a HutchCC campus problem though.

Walmart, Kwik Shop and Papa John’s are just a few other places that women get catcalled. Men old enough to be fathers to these young women sometimes catcall, and not in nice ways.

The happenings around campus

Blue Dragons weekend forecast

Friday —High: 68 Low: 46 Saturday—High: 80 Low: 57 Sunday —High: 73 Low: 50 There will be some stormy weather this weekend, so do as a Kansan and get your lawn chairs set up outside.

It doesn’t even have to be words.

Being stared or gawked at is common.

Many women are afraid to do simple things in fear of being verbally harassed or worse. A study done by “Stop Street Harassment” shows that 77% of women are verbally harassed, and 51% say they’ve been unwittingly touched sexually.

For the women on campus, fear of being catcalled or harassed is an everyday occurrence. Not feeling safe is the new normal for many women.

This isn’t to say all men catcall, or that the college and local businesses are at fault, but this isn’t fair to women, especially ones who come forward and report catcalling and similar harassment.

“I don’t think that it’s healthy that we’re trying to fix the problem by avoiding the issue,” Johnson said.

Inside Scoop Page 2 - Opinion page:

- Catcalling editorial - Unfortunate Events of Brenna: ‘My Golf Experience’.

Page 4 - Sports page:

Golf team won 2nd Jayhawk Conference Tournament.

Opinion

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The Hutchinson Collegian Friday, April 19, 2019

Catcalling should not Ready for the day be tolerated Our view Sexual harassment has become one of the most talked about situations through the world.

Yet, it is still viewed as something that needs to be hushed and swept under the rug. When it comes to catcalling, it’s especially gotten to the point where women hate even traveling from one place to another, because it is likely that a male will throw a “compliment” and expect a sweet response back.

That’s not how the world works, and that’s definitely not how women should be treated.

Making a whistle sound, shouting, or commenting in a sexual nature to a woman passing by is what catcalling is defined by. This word is specifically made and used for the way men mistreat women in the world.

The most common form of catcalling is strange men saying or doing something

to get the attention of a woman passing by. Whether that be for a “compliment” or just to be a nuisance, it is disgusting in both senses.

For female students on campus, this tends to happen on the way to classes, on the way in and out of the dorms, heck even in class, and just in their normal lives. Many happen while women are just doing normal life tasks like shopping and eating out. It’s sad that in today’s world, this is something that women “just have to deal with.” It shouldn’t be that way.

By doing something about it, hopefully one day it will be seen as the horrible mistreatment that it is.

To report an incident on campus, contact the Coordinator of Equity and Compliance Jake Gunden at gunden@hutchcc.edu or 620-665-3512.

Together, we can create a safer campus that is free of the catcalling bulls---.

Women will not be silenced. They will stand.

The Women’s Corner

Izzy Caldwell/Cartoonist

Catcalling: It’s never a compliment Catcalling: Rude sexual remarks made by men passing women on the street. Usually “cat calls” are about the woman’s body as a whole or a certain feature. – Urban Dictionary Or by my definition, the action that some men take to make themselves known to women they have never met.

Let me just say this … don’t.

The (not so) funny thing about catcalling is the excuse men like to make so the action seems innocent. But it will always be disgusting and unneeded, in every context possible.

To put it simple and

Columnist

Tabitha Barr upfront, men never should/ need to compliment a woman they don’t know who is just passing by.

Straight up and simple, but for some reason hard to understand for some.

The argument to catcalling is that it’s supposed to come off as a com-

pliment and nothing more.

But even then, women do not need, nor do they want, “compliments” from random men they do not know.

I don’t understand the fight behind, “Wow, can’t take a compliment?” when they don’t get the reaction they are hoping for.

Instead, men who do this usually get ignored, get the display of a certain finger or a woman who stands up and says that catcalling is a disgusting act.

When they don’t get the response they are looking for, (what are they expecting? For us to marry them on the spot?), they love to play the victim in the situation. I don’t know how

these certain male brains are wired, but clearly they need repaired. Because no matter the day, the person, the situation, etc., a “compliment” is just not needed.

Therefore, please, for the sanity and safety of women, don’t say anything at all and go about your day knowing you did not creep a girl out with your attempt at getting her attention.

Catcalling is just not necessary. Women do not need a man’s approval on the way she looks. Her appearance should not be a talking point just because a man feels generous to say something about it. We don’t need a man’s opinion to make us feel better, especially not from someone

we do not know or do not care to know.

It is straight up inappropriate and crude for men to think women need a “compliment” like that. Women just want to live their lives, and they don’t need random sayings of how “hot” and “sexy” they are. Or the more aggressive catcalls, like marriage proposals, sexual innuendos or the scariest action, stalking.

Women are already facing obstacles that challenge our abilities based on gender. We don’t need an additional reason for feeling unsafe in this world.

I just want to live in a world and attend a college where I don’t hear or experience horror stories of

catcalling.

We need to teach the world that catcalling is classified as sexual harassment. Therefore, it is a disgusting and a punishable action because it makes the world less comfortable and unsafe for women.

Leave the usage of catcalling in the past and welcome a world where we respect women for being women, and not based solely on their appearance.

We are so much more than that.

Tabitha Barr is a Nickerson freshman studying Media Communications and Production

The unfortunate events of Brenna I’m not normally one to try things I have never done before while being recorded, but last Wednesday was an exception to that rule.

I went out to play golf for the first time.

Of course, in my “Bad Luck Brenna” way, I had to bruise my shin before I even hit my first ball. The funny part is that I bruised it with the golf bag, since I was apparently carrying it wrong and the bottom kept hitting my leg with every other step.

This historical event happened at Carey Park with some people from the newspaper, includ-

My golf experience

Columnist

Brenna Eller ing Social Media Editor Emily Fehrman, Digital Content Coordinator Cody Schroeder, and The Collegian adviser, Brad Hallier.

We met up with the Hutchinson Community

The Hutchinson

Collegian

The Hutchinson Collegian is the official student newspaper of Hutchinson Community College.

It is created by the Newspaper Production class each week during the academic year, except for when school is not in session, or during final exams.

College golf team, which had agreed to show me how to be the female Tiger Woods.

Just kidding. I just really wanted to make contact with the ball.

When we got to the course, I was already a bundle of nerves. I had never golfed before, only played miniature golf once while on vacation in Branson. If my memories serve me right, I was pretty awful at that too.

My only other experience with golf was from my years of playing on Wii Sports. That should have prepared me, right? Well, sorry, but the Wii version

of golf is absolutely nothing like the actual sport.

I know, it was hard for me to understand too.

That’s where I learned my golf lingo too, like bogey and birdie.

Anyways, we went out to putt a few balls on the practice green, and I wasn’t as bad as I initially thought I would be.

I overshot quite a bit at times, but for a beginner, it wasn’t awful The real struggle was the driving range, though, because while I was expecting tees, there weren’t any, so I made quite a few divots in the ground.

I have good softball

Staff

Editor In Chief: Brenna Eller Campus editor: Pablo Sanchez Opinion page editor: Tabitha Barr Sports editors: Rebecca Carney and Amanda Carney Digital Content Coordinator: Cody Schroeder.

Social Media Editor: Emily Fehrman Adviser: Brad Hallier Staff members: Kathrine Collins, Jared Shuff, Breann Rogers, Rachel Lyons, Shealynn Hubbs, Aaron Strain, Kenneth Ryan.

Editorial board: Brenna Eller, Pablo Sanchez,

hand-eye coordination, as I played travel softball and for Little River High School, but not golfing. It takes a certain skill to be a standout golfer.

Speaking of, HutchCC golfer Charlie Crockett gave me a lot of pointers and had the patience of a saint while I didn’t even have patience with myself. l just wanted to smack the crap out of the ball, in all honesty.

He was telling me what I needed to work on and showed me the proper way to hold the golf club.

With three people videoing me and about four collegiate golfers watch-

ing, I did about what was expected. I hit a couple pretty far, but not straight.

I also didn’t really get into my backswing or technique, so hopefully I can go out there again sometime and practice on my own.

My mom said that she always loved to golf when she lived in Atwood, but Little River, the small town I grew up in doesn’t have a golf course, so who knows when I’ll feel like golfing again or where it will be?

Brenna Eller is a Little River sophomore studying Journalism

Tabitha Barr.

Editorial cartoonist: Izzy Caldwell.

Letters to the editor:

The Hutchinson Collegian welcomes letters to the editor. Letters must include the author’s signature, address and phone number.

The Collegian reserves the right to edit letters for style, legality and length. Letters may not exceed 300 words. Send letters to hallierb@ hutchcc.edu.

Campus

The Hutchinson Collegian Friday, September 1, 2017

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There are options for students getting harassed

By Brenna Eller Editor In Chief

Catcalling has been prevalent on and off college campuses, and has been an issue on Hutchinson Community College’s campus, based on the responses from anonymous surveys and from talking to several of the HutchCC softball players.

Catcalling could be considered a form of sexual harassment, as it is verbal harassment meant to degrade those walking by based on how they look. If you are a victim of being catcalled, report it to Coordinator of Equity and Compliance Jake Gunden or go to the HutchCC website under the Equal Opportunity, Harassment, and Nondiscrimination Procedure tab.

Brenna Eller: For those who don’t know, where can students go for help involving sexual harassment?

Jake Gunden: Students and employees with questions or concerns regarding sexual harassment, discrimination, sexual misconduct, stalking, and/ or intimate partner violence are encouraged to contact me in person, by phone, or by email to learn about the various rights and options available to them regarding such behavior.

My office is located on the main floor of the Parker

Student Union, behind the Information Counter. Additional information is also available on the HutchCC public website, within the College’s Equal Opportunity, Harassment, and Nondiscrimination Policy and Procedures, and in our online student training program “Not Anymore” that is available through Learning Zone.

BE: Can the victim of harassment remain anonymous or do you need a name in order to help him/ her?

JG: Students and employees are welcome to make an anonymous inquiry or report through the HutchCC TIPS portal, which can be found in the footer of every hutchcc.edu webpage, as well as the HutchCC Campus Safety & Equity homepage. TIPS is secure, easy to use, and is compatible with both Android and iOS devices.

To learn more about TIPS, students are welcome to check out the helpful TIPS FAQ sheet. The type of response or action the College can provide to anonymous TIPS reports, however, may be limited. So, in addition to TIPs, students and employees are always welcome to speak with me in person to learn about general rights, resources, and options, before

choosing to disclose specific information to me. They may also choose to meet with one of our licensed counselors, who, due to their roles with the College, are able to maintain confidentiality.

After hearing about available options, students may then opt to reveal details to me about the behavior they may be encountering. As I typically share in discussions with both students and employees, there are often non-disciplinary interventions available to those who wish to remain anonymous (aka without the other party knowing who made the report).

Disciplinary-based responses, however, typically cannot be anonymously undertaken.

BE: What is the college’s definition of sexual harassment?

JG: At present, HutchCC policy defines sexual harassment as “unwelcome, sexual or gender-based verbal, written, online, and/or physical conduct.” Under the same policy, “Sexual harassment creates a hostile environment, and may be disciplined when it is sufficiently severe, persistent/ pervasive, and objectively offensive that it has the effect of unreasonably interfering with, denying or limiting

employment opportunities or the ability to participate in or benefit from the university’s educational, social and/ or residential program, and is based on power differentials (quid pro quo), the creation of a hostile environment, or retaliation.”

The U.S. Dept. of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is currently undertaking a review of previous guidance and regulation, however, which could result in the need to alter or update HutchCC’s own definitions.

BE: Do you believe that catcalling is a form of sexual harassment? Is it an issue brought up a lot here?

JG: Unwanted sexual or suggestive comments – depending on the specific content, its frequency, and severity – can be sexual harassment or can rise to the level of sexual harassment. When those comments result in the creation of a hostile environment for the recipient, such comments may even result in potential disciplinary action.

As with most anything, the details of the behavior are critical to any such assessment.

Regardless of the severity or pervasiveness of the statements, however, my office, along with the Coordinator of

Campus Safety, take reports of such behavior seriously and will seek to find remedies for a reporting party when we learn of such unwanted behavior.

The key step, for students and employees, is to help bring the concerns to our attention by reporting.

BE: If someone were to say they didn’t get the help they wanted from their issue, what would they need to do next?

Response and remedial options are incident specific and are based in part on the type of behavior reported, the frequency and severity of the alleged behavior, the potential intervention desired by the reporting party, and the short- and long-term safety of both the reporting party and the campus community.

They may also be impacted by the type of intervention, if any, previously attempted or the history of the person committing the alleged behavior. As with initial concern, a critical component of a HutchCC response is continued communication with me if problems persist. In certain instances, there may be outside agencies through which additional options are available.

Students share their catcall experiences, on HutchCC campus and around Hutchinson

By Emily Fehrman Social Media Editor

This is a compilation of responses to an anonymous survey Hutchinson Community College students were asked to fill out regarding catcalling.

Responses were edited for clarity: “They walked in front of our car coming back from dinner and told us we had to give them our snap chats.”

“Someone came up to me and grabbed my butt in front of my mother.”

“Hey Mami, Hey shawty what’s your snap, I want some of that Mexican booty.”

“Once I was walking down the hall and there was a group of guys all whistling at me and when I tried to just walk by ignoring them one of them jumped in front of me, looked me and up down and then started saying sexual things about me when I proceeded to walk away down the hall.” “‘They’ are football players - every single time.”

“Your ass just keeps getting fatter.”

“While at work, I upset a co-worker by upholding company rules, who then threatened to rape me. Oh, I forgot, I’m a male and she was a female, so it doesn’t f------ matter, does it?

“So, let me continue my story. She then threatened to go and falsely report me as raping her so that I would then go to jail and get raped there. She did this in front of my wife and within earshot of our boss. Do you know what her punishment was?

“I f------ got sent home for the day so her crazy ass could calm down!

“F--- you with this f------ sexist misandrist bulls---.

“You won’t publish this because it doesn’t fit your piece of s---, women-as-victim mentality narrative.

“And yes, I’m pissed off. F--- all y’all.”

Response from Brad Hallier, Collegian adviser – We have published it.

“I was catcalled one time while wearing a dress. The person whistled at me and then made a remark about what he would do if we were alone.

How the dress was ‘easy access’ and how it was convenient for him. I haven’t worn dresses or skirts to school since.”

“Why is this survey only for women? So you can further the idea of ‘rape culture’ against only women?”

Response from Emily Fehrman: We’re not saying that “rape culture” is only against women, this issue is about catcalling, which is specific to women. We understand that rape is a horrendous act that happens to men and women. Never once have we stated that we’re only fighting for the women in the situation, but as of right now, we’re telling their stories.

Because they want to be heard, and if any men have been affected by sexual assault and would like to actually be heard we suggest you contact us but not from an anonymous survey where we can’t tell if it’s a joke to you or you’re serious. To us, it isn’t a joke, and for a few of you to come on here and give fake statements … maybe you should contact us to have a civil conversation instead of just telling us to f--- off.

“I was once followed all the way to Elland from Kent while ignoring this guy who kept asking me for my Snapchat, and when I kept walking, he continued to call me a dumb bitch and I can go f--- myself for not giving my Snapchat.”

“On campus at HutchCC, there was a boy that would catcall me and call me his wife. I ended up having a class with him and he tried to sit by me and would always talk about how we are married.” “‘You gotta man to tie you down?’

First of all, ew. Second of all, EW!” “Hey baby, you look like my daughter.”

“It is honestly something I have become so used to that I have learned how to adjust my day to day life expecting this from strangers. Some quotes from specific instances: ‘nice ass’, ‘nice (breasts)’, ‘oh it looks like you left the headlights on’, ‘oh damn, could you wrap those legs around me’ and many, many more.”

Season-ending performances coming up for ensembles

By Jared Shuff Staff Writer

Next week is an eventful week for the Hutchinson Community College vocal and instrumental jazz ensembles.

The last jazz concert takes place on Monday, Badinage travels to Kansas City on Tuesday, and both vocal jazz ensembles perform at the Metropolitan Cafe on April 26.

The final performances will showcase the music they’ve dedicated so much time learning. Monday night will feature a variety of ensembles.

“We’re gonna have all of our jazz ensembles, essentially, with our big band, the combo, Badinage, Sonance, and lab band,” Kincaid Lightener said, a threeyear member of Badinage.

Early the next morning, Badinage will be on the road to Kansas City to perform at the Kansas City Kansas Community College Jazz Festival. The group performs at 11 a.m. and will perform their favorite pieces from the year.

Finally, at the end of this hectic week, Badinage and Sonance, the vocal jazz groups under the direction of Neal Allsup, will perform one last time at the Metropolitan Cafe.

“There are three sets for Badinage and two sets for Sonance. We’ll rotate, and the last set is the big set,” said Baylee Maskill, another three-year member of the group.

The sets will mainly be acapella, including music the groups learned in choir.

Many members of Badinage have been in the group for three years now, with this year being their last.

“It’s the last one, the last time we’ll all sing together. It’s exciting, but it’s also sentimental,” Maskill said.

“I don’t think I’d still be in college if it weren’t for this group, honestly,” Kincaid said.

“It makes me sad, because this is the last vocal group that I’m pretty sure I’m ever gonna be a part of,” Allie Mendoza said, another of the super-sophomores in the group.

Maskill was terrified when she first

joined the group but realized that she loved the people she was around and the things she was able to experience. From recording CDs to traveling across the country, there was never a dull moment for her.

“We don’t only learn music in there, we learn how to be a good human, and what it means to be human,” Maskill said.

The group performs a variety of different styles, with influences from pop, country, and even rap music interlaced within the overarching theme of vocal jazz. There’s something for everybody to enjoy.

Mendoza explained how this is the last time anyone will get to see this group perform since nine out of the 12 members will be leaving at the end of the semester.

Two songs stuck out as being among their favorites –“ Strasbourg St. Denis” and “Groovin’ High”. “’Strasbourg’ is my favorite, just because a lot of the harmonies are different than the other songs, and I like the feel of it being acapella and kind of upbeat,”

Mendoza said.

“Definitely would be ‘Groovin’ High’,” said Ben Pankratz, a second-year group member. “I absolutely adored the bebop style. There are no words in it all, but I love that about it because you can put your own words in there”.

Another song that resonates throughout the group is “Send in the Clowns”, originally a Broadway tune, later adapted into a vocal jazz chart by The New York Voices. Only five members of the group sing this song, creating a more intimate and tear-jerking performance.

The group is definitely prepared to end the performance with tears in their eyes.

“I know that I’m gonna cry, for sure.

I’m pretty sure that all the people that are leaving are gonna cry, and I know that Neal’s gonna cry too,” Mendoza said.

“It’s not only us in Badinage, it’s Badinage in us,” Pankratz said.

The main jazz concert at Stringer Fine Arts Center is at 7:30 p.m. Monday, with doors opening at 7 pm. The performance at Metropolitan Cafe is from 7-10 p.m.

Sports

The Hutchinson Collegian Friday, April 19, 2019

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Freshman is Rollin now

Athlete of the week (April 7-13) Megan Davis, Softball

By Amanda Carney Co-Sports Editor

Injuries are something almost every college athlete has to face at one time or another.

However, Hutchinson Community College student-athlete Maryssa Rollin understands this a little too well.

Originally, from Olathe and attending Olathe South High School, Rollin came to Hutchinson to play softball for the Blue Dragons. Not only can she pitch but she can hit with the best of them. For Rollin, staying healthy has been a difficult task. Problems started back before the season even started.

The problems continued with a concussion causing Rollin to be out for a week or two.

Then over Christmas break, Rollin had to have her appendix taken out, needing more time to recover.

“I had my appendix taken out over Christmas break, and I wasn’t allowed to do anything for six weeks,” Rollin said.

Finally back at practice, Rollin faced another problem – her knee.

“I was sprinting, and my knee pretty much came out of place and then went back in,” Rollin said with a smile.

There was some more recovery time for Rollin.

This was a frustrating time, for not only Rollin but also the coaches, as

Photo by Bre Rogers/The Collegian Hutchinson Community College pitcher Maryssa Rollin tosses a pitch during a Jayhawk East doubleheader at Fun Valley Sports Complex against Barton.

several Blue Dragons were coming down injured.

“It was frustrating, because I wanted to play, and then every time I got back, I was set back,” Rollin said.

Finally, following injury after injury Rollin was ready to come back.

She slowly worked back into the rotation

for pitching and in the batting order.

“When she came back, we just tried to work it in slowly, the pitching and hitting,” HutchCC coach Jaime Rose said. “We were trying to do a relief role in the circle for four or five games, and then come in to be our starter.”

Rose always worries about her players’ health and hopes for the best.

But this season has been difficult, but at least the injured players like Rollin are on the mend.

“Anytime you have any get better and they come back and play well, you always think ‘What if?’” Rose said. “I’m happy with where we are.

I always say it’s not about where we started it’s about where we are.”

Now healthy, Rollin has played a total of 10 conference games. She has mashed four home runs and 26 RBIs, and it might only be the start.

“Ready to go to regional and then nationals,” Rollin said about what was next.

The week: Davis won a pair of starts in helping the Blue Dragons experience an April revival.

Davis Davis first helped mow down Barton, allowing one run on seven hits while striking out six in seven innings, leading Hutch to a 7-1 win.

Then, she tossed a two-hit shutout against Pratt, striking out two in a five-inning mercy-rule win.

The season: Davis, a sophomore from Princeton who went to Central Heights, is 13-7 with a 3.37 ERA in 16 appearances for the Blue Dragons.

In 79 innings pitched, Davis has 46 strikeouts.

She has pitched seven complete games and she has two shutouts.

Roundup: Golf team takes first in conference tournament

By Rebecca Carney Co-Sports Editor

The Hutchinnson Community College men’s golf team continued its run to the Jayhawk Conference championship, winning the second of three conference tournaments on Tuesday in Newton.

The Blue Dragons had a three-round score of 913 at Sand Creek Station, nudging past Dodge City’s 915.

Charlie Crockett was the tournament winner, as he played the 54-hole tournament under par, finishing with a 1-under 215.

Liam DeBatissta finished third overall, eight shots behind Crockett. Peyton Austin tied for sixth, while Charlie Herbert was eighth.

Overall, the Blue Dragons are first in the conference team standings with 18 points, two more than Dodge City, headed the conference finale Monday and Tuesday at Crestview Country Club in Wichita.

Crockett is the individual leader with 17.5 points, two more than Dodge City’s Danny Taggart.

Women’s track – Hannah Smith exceled at one of Kansas’ top track-and-field stages Saturday, as the HutchCC sophomore captured the hammer throw at the K.T. Woodman Classic at Wichita

Baseball

State’s Cessna Stadium.

Smith broke her own Blue Dragon record with a winning throw of 166 feet. Smith topped her own school record by 5 1/2 feet and has the nation’s fifth-best throw for this season. Smith unloaded her top throw of the day on her first attempt of the preliminary round.

The No. 18 Blue Dragons picked up another national qualifier on Friday when Katy Commons finished 11th overall in the javelin. Her throw of 120 feet, 8 inches broke the qualifying standard and is the sixth-best throw in the NJCAA. Men’s track – Long jumper Elijah Fisher broke 23 feet for the first time in his career on Saturday at the K.T. Woodman Classic. That PR helped Fisher to a first-place tie. No. 13-ranked Hutchison had three top-five finishes over the two-day run of the Woodman Classic.

Freshman Andrew Kibet became the fourth Blue Dragon to qualify for the NJCAA outdoor championships in the 5,000 meters.

Kibet ran the ninth fastest time in the NJCAA this season and third-fastest time in Blue Dragon history with a time of 14 minutes, 42.58 seconds, which was fourth at the Woodman.

Kibet joins Sylvestre Kibarar, Brett Hillabrand and Jared

Stark as 5,000 meter national qualifiers.

Baseball – Will Reetz and the Blue Dragon baseball team had a big day on Sunday. Reetz hit an extra-inning, three-run, walk-off home run in the bottom of the eighth inning in the first game at Hobart-Detter Field to give the Blue Dragons a 6-3 victory.

Then, with the Blue Dragons clinging to a one-run lead in the top of the seventh of the series finale, Reetz caught a fly ball and threw out the potential game-tying run at the plate for a game-ending double play in a 2-1 Hutchinson victory.

The Blue Dragons won their third Jayhawk West series, 3-1 over Pratt. The Blue Dragons are now 3-0-2 in conference series this season.

Softball – HutchCC exploded for one of the biggest offensive outputs in program history on Friday in a Jayhawk East doubleheader sweep of Pratt at Fun Valley.

The Blue Dragons earned a pair of five-inning, rule-rule victories with wins of 27-2 and 8-0 to secure their hold on third place in the Jayhawk East. The Blue Dragons improve to 17-15 overall and are 12-10 in the Jayhawk East.

The 27 runs is tied for the second most in program history. The 24 hits were the third most in a single-game history.

Photo by Steve Carpenter/HutchCC Sports Information Hutchinson Community College’s Charlie Crockett putts during a Jayhawk Conference tournament at Sand Creek Station in Newton.

Women’s basketball – Dejanae Roebuck and Jada Mickens have been tangled together since their first games for the Blue Dragon basketball team.

Roebuck was named to the 2019 NJCAA Division I Women’s Basketball All-America third team on Monday. Mickens was an honorable mention selection. The Blue Dragon are the 14th and 15th All-Americans in program history.

This is the sixth-straight season a Blue Dragon women’s player has appeared on the

NJCAA All-America team.

Men’s basketball – Sophomore James Rojas added another postseason award, earning first-team NJCAA All-America honors.

Already named the 2019 Jayhawk West Player of the Year, the 6-foot-8 forward from Jamestown, New York, became the fourth Blue Dragon in as many years to earn first-team All-America honors.

He is Hutchinson’s 12th firstteam All-American and 33rd overall All-American in team history.

Blue Dragon sports schedules, results. All home games, events in caps.

(doubleheaders indiciated by a 2) April 3, STERLING JV, W 12-2, W 7-0 April 4, STERLING JV, W 10-0, W 11-3 April 9, at Seminole State, L 15-9 April 12, at Pratt, W 11-0, L 11-10 April 14 PRATT, W 6-3, W 2-1 April 16, at Coffeyville, W 15-3 April 18, SEWARD COUNTY (2), 1 p.m.

April 20, at Seward County (2), 1 p.m.

April 23, BARTON, 5:30 p.m.

April 25, at Colby (2), 1 p.m.

April 27, COLBY (2), 1 p.m.

May 2, CLOUD COUNTY, 1 p.m.

May 4, at Cloud County, 1 p.m.

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March 25, at Jayhawk Conference tournament, first April 8-9, at Tiger Invitational, second April 15-16, at Jayhawk Conference tourna-

ment, first April 22-23, at Jayhawk Championship April 29-30, at District 3/Region 6 tournament May 15-18, at NJCAA Tournament

April 15, INDEPENDENCE, W 8-3, W 16-4 April 17, at Sterling JV, W 12-0, W 11-2 April 18, TABOR JV, 4 P.M. April 24, at NW Kansas Tech, 2 p.m.

April 3, at Butler, L 8-7, L 9-1 April 5, DODGE CITY, W 11-4, W 7-6 April 7, at Seward County, W 7-0, W 10-2 April 10, BARTON, W 7-1, W 8-1 April 12, at Pratt, W 27-2, W 8-0

April 3-4, at Tiger Multi-Event April 5-6, at Friends April 12-13, at KT Woodman April 18-19, at KU Relays April 27, at Southwestern

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