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Ainsley Trunkhill discusses the issue behind Netflix’ s new series, “Dahmer”.

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David Maness, Coordinator of Campus Safety, gives some safety tips.

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Lynsey Addario snaps into frame to close out Dillon Lecture Series 2022

By Lizzie Kipp Staff Writer

It’s not every day that a Pulitzer Prize winner comes to Hutchinson, but the city had the honor to receive one this week.

Photojournalist Lynsey Addario was the featured speaker at the Dillon Lecture Series on Tuesday at the Sports Arena, in the final lecture of 2022 Addario covers major conflicts around the world and is a consistent contributor to The New York Times, National Geographic, and TIME Magazine. She has Photo by Josie Shrag/Collegian captured all sorts of humanLynsey Addario speaks on the numerous conitarian conflicts like the Iraq flicts she’s covered in her career War, the Syrian refugee cri-

sis, and the war in Ukraine.

And if that doesn’t sound scary enough, she was also one of the four New York Times journalists kidnapped in 2011 in Libya.

The key part of her lecture was her work in Afghanistan. That’s actually what earned Addario multiple awards, one of them being a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. Her photos focused on life and oppression in Afghanistan under the Taliban.

The photos from there are nothing short of powerful.

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Photo by Josie Shrag/Collegian Lynsey Addario speaks on the numerous conflicts she’s covered in her career (From the left)

Two photographers, Sandra Milburn (right), and Lynsey Addario, discuss photography and Addario’s talk on Tuesday.

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Things to know about HutchCC Esports

By Lynn Spahr Staff Writer

Typically, sports are physical activities, from hard-hitting in football, to endurance in cross country, to grabbing, pushing and hacking in basketball.

It’s hard not to be curious about a sport where the participants are sitting in front of computers.

Welcome to Esports So, what is Esports all about?

Hutchinson Community College has a full-fledged, co-ed Esports team now in its second full season.

HutchCC coach Heath Hensley and players Jennifer Mendoza and Eduardo Hernandez will shed some light on what Esports is and why it matters to the people who play.

What is Esports?

Hensley: Esports is gaming at a competition sports level. We participate in NJCAA, just the same as every other sport on campus, and there’s real seasons, different levels of competition, invitational, open series, intramural, so, it’s just like any other sport that would be played on campus.

Mendoza: Esports is like a lot of

like, the best way I can describe it is it’s almost like any other sport, but this time you can do video games competitively and it’s really like its own realm, and I really enjoy that.

Hernandez: Esports is where we can play the games we love Mendoza and enjoy playing in a competitive setting, they have so many different leagues that you can play in. Right now we are in the NJCAAE which is where we play against other other colleges but it goes deeper Hensley and if you get good you can play for an all pros team.

How did the team at HutchcCC get started?

Hensley A: It actually started in 2020. It was in process before the pandemic hit, we were hired over the summer, me and, it was Tyler Crawford that was originally hired, he left, moved to Oregon for another job. But, they were still working on this basement area, we didn’t have even an arena the

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first semester. But yeah, they finally got us the arena, moved in, started doing some scrimaging with other colleges, and then we moved into NJCAA fall of 2021, and won our first championship that year too.

What makes this more than just playing video games?

Hensley: That’s a very common question. You sit down and play games for fun, I think everybody does that at some level, whether it’s on your phone, X-Box, whatever. What they do here is actually competition grade, like they have to train muscle memory, run strategies, different tactics. It’s almost the same as play calling, like in football. So, a lot of these teams, I mean, the skill levels and stuff, especially with like Saint Claire, out of Canada, Gogebic out of Michigan, they’re top tier. I mean, some of these guys are at, like, pro level, if you want to call it that. They have to put in a lot of time, a lot of practice, and that’s just, that’s where it starts to separate from what this is and what just, regular gaming is. Just, a lot of skill, a lot of practice, a lot of dedication, a lot of long nights, heartache, stuff like that along the way too. It’s when you get those wins against tough teams that it all comes

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together.

Mendoza: It’s, there’s a lot of like, intensiveness to it, if that makes sense. It’s not just, like the whole, like the competitiveness comes out and it’s just, it’s a really hard way to describe it, at least personally for me, because it’s just like, it’s something that not only i really enjoy, it’s something that I can also build off of. So it’s pretty cool.

Hernandez: What makes it more than video games is the competition and all the practices we have to get better and play as a team, plus we are playing either for a title or a prize.

What kind of games are played?

Hensley A: We have quite a few. We play “Call of Duty”, this season it’s “Vanguard”, we’re going to be moving to “Modern Warfare 2” next season, “Rocket League”. “Madden NFL 23” is what we’re playing right now, “Rainbow 6 Siege”, “Halo: Infinite, Super Smash Bros”, “Call of Duty: Warzone”, “Call of Duty: Gunfight”, which is “Cold War”, with the gunfight level on that.

“Valorant”, “Mario Kart 8”, and “Overwatch”. And we also just got into the See Esports, Page 3

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The Hutchinson Collegian Friday, November 4, 2022

War. What is it good for?

Absolutely nothing.

In the modern era, war is a few things. Entertainment, a game, a job, and a place of profit. Really, think about it. “Call of Duty” exists as a pro-war, pro U.S. military propaganda machine at this point. The Military-entertainment complex.

(Defined by Wikipedia as “The cooperation beBraedon Martin tween the United States Department of Defense and entertainment industries to their mutual benefit”) Further exacerbating this issue is a couple of issues in the modern style of warfare. This constant move towards getting human lives off the battlefield on one hand seems like something wholly worth believing in, right? Except … That’s not what’s happening and that’s not why. The onset of drones used in warfare, be they manned or autonomous, only means that we are further separating ourselves from the ultimately very human act of warfare. By taking away the trading of life for life, and instead commodifying human life, we bring ourselves to the point where war, the greatest and most terrible event to tear this planet apart, is seen as something normal.

We are already rapidly nearing a state in our society where civilian casualties aren’t seen as unnecessary deaths that could (and should) have been avoided, to simply a byproduct of fighting. We may have hit a schoolbus of toddlers, but at least we got one guy we’re pretty sure was a big terrorist.

I don’t want this to be interpreted as me saying that I want soldiers to die, or that I think every action done by the military is inherently evil or anything. I would vastly prefer that war and armed conflict be avoided at every turn. However, in the event

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that it cannot be avoided, it is a better lesson to learn that war kills people for ultimately no reason, rather than war is a playground for robots to shoot people on the screen and watch them die.

War, at this point, is not seen as the terrible tragedy it used to be. Many may say that our military fights to protect our freedom, but realistically, U.S. freedom hasn’t been threatened in at least 75 years. Most of the conflicts the U.S. has fought in since World War 2 have been to further U.S. economic interests.

This brings me to my second military complex. The Military-Industrial complex. (Wikipedia: “the relationship between a country’s military and the defense industry that supplies it.”)

Reading that you may say “oh but Braedon, all my military buddies say they fight for freedom and to protect America!” Unless your military buddies are the ones issuing the orders, they’re fighting for economic interests. I think Smedey Butler, former U.S. Marine and two time Medal of Honor awardee, said it best.

“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated

on three continents.”

I want to take a moment and really let that sink in.

One of the most decorated marines the U.S. has seen was massively ashamed of his actions in his service.

The involvement of ‘Big Business’ in our military and the massive amounts of money we funnel into the military means that not only does the U.S. have one of the most funded, strongest militaries, (By far, I might add.) American companies also have the largest private armies, and as long as they can come up with good enough cover for a ‘threat to U.S. freedom’, they can bring down the full force of the United States military, and then sneak in and collect their profit.

It only gets worse. American defense contractors get more money hungry, and the American people continue to get nothing out of it except dead parents, friends, and children. Oh, and some cool video games.

Truly, I wish that our armed forces were a force for good, and that they were worth the $813 BILLION dollars, but on for what it’s worth, most of our domestic government programs are tragically underfunded, and at this point, our armed forces are nothing but a tool for capitalist oligarchs to extend their control over the world. (See, Elon Musk trying to abuse Ukraine’s reliance on Starlink, something he gave them, to turn a profit by suddenly asking them to pay him back, and threatening to remove Starlink if he got no payment.)

I’m no political scholar, and I certainly can’t say for sure how to solve this problem, but the least everyone can do is acknowledge that there is a huge problem in the way our country sees and treats war and conflict and especially the reasons for which it is fought.

Braedon Martin is a Hutchinson sophomore studying journalism. He is the Collegian’s Opinion Page Editor and Managing Editor for Design.

The beautiful faces of our favorite killers I’m a true crime junkie, and with five out of Apple Podcasts’ Top Ten shows dedicated to this genre, it’s safe to say I’m not alone.

Netflix churns out true crime documentaries like a Nike shoe factory and labels shows containing graphic and disturbing imagery as “binge-worthy”.

This isn’t, of course, a new phenomenon. Think back to the Colosseum, public executions, and Stephen King novels. The format has changed, but the concept remains.

Yet, with Netflix’s new release of “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffery Dahmer Story” (a redundant title), I can’t help but wonder if the genre has overstepped a delicately drawn line of ethics. I anticipated its release with excitement, but couldn’t make it past the first few episodes. My typical documentaries and podcasts relay facts, discuss historical and cultural implications, and remember the victims. Telling a story is one thing, but dramatizing

and sensationalizing that story? That’s serial killer, but …” Shows like this something completely different. have failed to make people comprehend Let’s start with Evan Peters, the that he is not Michael Myers or Freddy “American Horror Story” actor playKreuger, but a real, horrific, human ing Dahmer. While not being with real victims. objectively wrong, I The victims, furthermore, pause as cinema keeps were not made aware of the enlisting conventionally show’s production, nor were attractive men to play they compensated in any serial killers— Zac way. At the end of the show, Efron, Ross Lynch, and they portray Lionel Dahmer, now Peters. Ted Bundy, Jeffrey’s father, describing his Richard Ramirez, and, plans to make money off of yes, Jeffrey Dahmer all his son’s case, selling rights received love letters and to production and writing a maintained a dedicated book. The families of the vicfan base of female foltims sued him for compensalowers, dubbed groupAinsley Trunkhill tion, all of which were events ies, while in prison. that truly happened.

The former two even Relatives of Errol Lindsey, married an admirer before their deaths. one of Dahmer’s victims, have spoken Following the Dahmer show’s reout on the distaste of the show, claimlease, TikTok flooded with shirtless ed- ing it forces families to relive their its of Peters while playing Dahmer with trauma and profits off of trauma. Rita captions starting with “I know he’s a Isbell, Lindsey’s sister, is portrayed in

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the show during court. Side-by-side recordings of the real Isbell in court alongside the scene in the show have permeated social media. While not illegal in the film industry, it is definitely unethical.

For ethical true crime consumption, the victims must be remembered at the forefront. Everyone knows the name Jeffrey Dahmer, but few could recognize Steven Hicks, Steven Tuomi, Jamie Doxtater, Richard Guerrero, Anthony Sears, Ricky Beeks, Eddie Smith, Ernest Miller, David Thomas, Curtis Straughter, Errol Lindsey, Anthony Hughes, Konerak Sinthasomphone, Matt Turner, Jeremiah Weinberger, Oliver Lacy, or Joseph Bradehoft, the 17 men and boys murdered by Dahmer. It’s time to stop dramatizing true crime and making celebrities out of monsters.

Ainsley Trunkhill is a Hutchinson sophomore studying secondary education. She is a Collegian staff writer.

The GOAT has his hoof is his mouth

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady seems to really have his head shoved in a rather unpleasant place these days and I can only hope he gets his act together soon.

While recording a podcast episode of “Let’s Go!” with Jim Gray and Kevin Durant, Brady made the gutsy comparison of his career in the NFL to a military deployment saying, “I almost look at like a football season like you’re going away on deployment in the military, and it’s like ‘Man here I go again.’

There’s only one way to do it.”

During a press conference a few days later, he apologized, calling it a “poor choice of words.”

You think?

You play football for a living, while there are men and women quite literally putting their lives on the line, giving you the freedom to do so.

You go away to training camp for what, a few weeks or maybe even months? They’re out of the country with little to no communication sometimes

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for years at a time.

You are paid millions of dollars to play a game.

Don’t get me wrong, I love watching football as much as the next person. But in the end, it’s still just a game.

Our armed forces are sacrificing themselves for our safety and our freedom.

The fact that Brady even thought to compare the two is so ignorant.

I do not come from a military family, but I have several friends and family who are on active duty, reserve, or veterans.

I have seen the heartache when they have to miss things like holidays, weddings, and funerals. I’ve heard the pain in their voice as they explain why their family photo is short one smiling face for now.

But I have also seen the extreme pride as they speak of their accomplishments and endeavors as they serve us. I have seen the euphoria when they finally come home after years without their physical presence.

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You have the option to go home, to call your family, to still be present while continuing your career.

More often than not, they don’t.

Football is a game, and yes for you it’s a way of living, but it does not need to be held to this almost idolized standard.

I really hope Tom Brady has given some thought to his comment and starts to give more credit and appreciation to our troops.

His little “business trips” will never compare to their selfless service and honor.

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Laci Sutton is a Nickerson senior studying journalism. She is the Collegian’s Managing Editor for Content.

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By Carly Tompson Staff Writer

David Maness is the Coordinator of Campus Safety at Hutchinson Community College. He’s known to students for his work with campus security.

His responsibilities, however, far outreach that title. Maness patrols all of the HutchCC properties, including the main campus, Peel Center, Davis Hall, Cosmetology, Fire Science, Media Production, and South Campus. In addition to patrolling, his job is to issue parking citations and respond to service calls. These calls consist of suspicious persons on campus, sick or injured persons, vehicle jump starts, unlocking cars, and more.

“Pay attention to your surroundings,” Maness said about staying safe on campus. “I see so many students walking around looking down at their phones and not paying attention to what is happening around them. I’ve seen them step off the curb into the roadway and never look to see if any traffic is coming. In the main parking lot, I see them walk out from between the cars and never check to see if a vehicle is coming. There have been students struck by cars but luckily nobody has been seriously injured.

Why would they put their safety in the hands of a driver they do not know?

Look up.”

Aside from all those responsibilities, he is also responsible for fire and safety equipment. This involves testing and maintenance of the fire alarm system, fire sprinklers, fire extinguishers, emergency lighting, the automated external defibrillator, and stocking the bleed kits. Maness even helps the dorm staff with their fire drill each semester and walks with the fire marshall during the

annual inspection. He makes sure that everything gets taken care of if needed.

Maness also checks all of the ground fault circuit interrupter outlets at each campus to make sure they are operating properly. Maness is the chairperson of the Safety and Security Subcommittee.

They discuss and find solutions for any safety concerns.

“One of my more enjoyable tasks is picking up and returning the Dillon Lecture Series speakers to and from the airport,” Maness said. “That gives me some one-on-one time to visit with them about their adventures as well as tell them about Kansas, Hutchinson, and HutchCC.” Even though he has a lot on his plate, Maness said he is available from 8 a.m. to 4:30 pm on weekdays. While Maness is not on the clock, Securitas, a security company, is around to aid in any issues. A Securitas officer is also scheduled at the dorms from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. every day.

The best way to contact security is with the phone number (620) 6653397, or dial 3397 from a HutchCC phone.

“I would urge students to put that number in their phones in case they ever need assistance. That number is answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” Maness said.

That number came in handy for Jaeleigh Darnell, an Auburn, Neb., freshman. Over Halloween weekend, several cars were broken into at the dorms. Her car was one of them and she had the number saved in her phone. She was able to get a hold of security quickly and come up with a plan.

“He was able to tell me different ways to handle the situation and he told me where to go to get help,” Darnell said. “I really appreciated the help and guidance in that situation.”

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Kansas bipolar weather

By Mason Poepperling Staff Writer

On Sept. 23, the Autumn Equinox, as it does every year, signified the first official day of the fall season.

Of course, if you were to step outside during the afternoon most days, it would be remarkably difficult to tell. Since the start of the season, citizens of Kansas - a state already notorious for its unpredictable weather conditions - have been enjoying average temperatures in the 70s and warmer.

Even Tuesday, the first day of November, the high temperature in Hutchinson touched 80, according to AccuWeather. It’s almost as if summer never left, even though by all accounts it should have left a month and a half ago.

The effects of this summer-life weather during the fall season can be felt across the entire Hutchinson Community College campus. Some consider this to be a confusing time, a time where things feel good for a while longer than they should, all the while waiting for the weather to go bad again.

“It feels weird,” said Ethan Pearson, a Kingman sophomore. “Like we’re in a false sense of security. It feels like

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No. 4 Trinity Valley, Texas +800 After a loss to Snow early on, the Cardinals seemed to turn around their season. If they win out, and win in the conference playoffs, I see them keeping their spot and advancing.

No. 3 Northwest Mississippi +500 If undefeated Northwest can pull out a win against Jones, it’ll help their resume before playoffs. Even a win over Jones and a loss in the Mississippi championship game may

this cozy rug that’s about to be ripped from under us.”

While some may feel unsure about the weather, others look at it as a positive thing, holding on to the nice feeling of this warmer fall season as long as they can before, as is possible with Kansas’ weather being as unpredictable as a inebriated motorist being chased by the police on the highway, Winter comes around and brings the temperature down to freezing numbers.

“Fall is the best season and it typically doesn’t last long in Kansas,” said Paige Asberry, Nickerson freshman.

“I love that we’re getting an extended period of fall.”

However people react to the weather, it is important to keep in mind that, as everyone who has spent years in Kansas will say, the weather here is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.

Kansans could have the nicest, perfect weather, or some of the heaviest storms ever come across in the Midwest. The best way to handle whatever sort of weather this state throws is to take it in stride and not let it affect you negatively, because even during the worst storms, there’s always a rainbow on the other side. not shove Northwest out of the top four.

No. 2 Iowa Western +300 Iowa Western has a perfect record thus far, but the hardest part has yet to come, with Coffeyville and then Hutchinson on the schedule.

No. 1 Hutchinson +150 Right now it looks like the Blue Dragons hold the keys. They control their own destiny. If they can beat Independence this Saturday, they’ll wrap up another undefeated conference season.

Even a loss to Iowa Western likely does not keep the Blue Dragons out.

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endure.

Addario said that as a woman, she had better access to women in Afghanistan. Because of this, the living conditions of Afghani women were a big part of her work. She said that the women with no husbands were often beggars, and the married ones had little to no freedom. They couldn’t © thewordsearch.com get a job outside their home, attend school, or leave their house without a chaperone.

But, there were instances in which these laws were broken. Addario told the story of when she attended an Afghani wedding. There was music, dancing, and women who were not veiled, all of which are illegal under the Taliban. Addario said the event

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I-Racing League with NJCAA. So, a lot of games.

Mendoza: I am actually in four games. I play “Call of Duty: Vanguard’’, I play “Mario Kart”, I also play “Warzone”, and I am the co-captain of the “Overwatch” team, so I play “Overwatch” too.

Why is it important to you?

Mendoza: Just because personally for me, my entire life was revolved around video games. I grew up watching my big brother play games since I was a

taught her to “pause and look for those secret moments” in which the Taliban was not in control. She included photos from it in her published work.

Through her photographs, Addario not only showed the world the struggles of living in Afghanistan - she also showed life after the fall of the Taliban. She showed pictures and videos of women driving, dancing, and enjoying themselves.

American society often hears about world conflicts on the news and eventually stops talking about them. But to see them happen is a whole different experience. Each of Addario’s photos tells a story about a human being, whether that’s the story of sick babies in Somalia or a Ukrainian schoolteacher tearfully volunteering to fight in the war. The humanity she captures with her camera causes us to see these world issues in a whole new light. kid. Played like a lot of “God of War”, “Resident Evil”, definitely “Silent Hill”, so I just like, remember sitting next to him watching him play games, like “Halo” and stuff, so I develop my own liking to it.

Hernandez A: Esports is really important to me because of the friendship that you make in Esports.

For anyone who has interest in joining the Blue Dragons’ Esports team, contact Hensley at hensleyh@ hutchcc.edu. Hensley can also be found in his office inside Shears Technology Center. The team also has a Facebook page and Twitter account.

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Talking about playoffs

Photo by Josie Schrag/Collegian Hutchinson Community College’s Walter Bob Jr. (9) leaps over a pile of players during a game Oct. 1 at Gowans Stadium. The Blue Dragons won the game 27-19 and vaulted to No. 1 in the NJCAA rankings.

A breakdown of the top eight shows who might make the NJCAA semifinals

By Ben Short Sports Editor

As the end of the college football season is quickly approaching, here’s the latest top eight in the NJCAA Division 1 football rankings, and my odds for them to reach the semifinals.

No. 8 Coffeyville - +3000 I don’t see Coffeyville making

the playoffs, being in the hardest conference in the NJCAA, it’s hard to win out. Even if the Red Ravens did, by beating Iowa Western and Garden City, the pollsters don’t like two-loss teams.

No. 7 Jones, Miss. - +2700 Coming off a loss, it’s gonna be tough to squeeze into the top four. But a win this week over

Northwest Mississippi would help. If they win out and put up big numbers in the Mississippi playoffs they could have a shot.

No. 6 Georgia Military - +4000 Georgia Military has one loss, and it was a slaughter fest when they played Snow College, which is currently ranked fifth.

I don’t see them making the playoffs, even with wins over

Division 3 No. 2 DuPage, Illinois and No. 11 Lackawanna, Pa. No. 5 Snow, Utah - +1700 Snow has two losses, but they were top-10 losses. If a two-loss team got in, it would be Snow.

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Athlete of the week

(Oct. 23-29) Taylor Hoskinson, Women’s cross country The week: Hoskinson was one of several Blue Dragons to have a great perfor- Hoskinson mance at the Region 6 championships on Oct. 28 at Fun Valley Sports Complex.

Hoskinson came in sixth place in a time of 19 minutes, 20.58 seconds. Hoskinson was one of three Blue Dragons to finish in the top six, and aided by her performance, the Blue Dragons won their first Division 1 Region 6 championship in school history. They also won the Jayhawk Conference.

The season: Hoskinson, a freshman from Haven, has been a regular among the Blue Dragons top six runners. She will next compete at the national championships.

Blue Dragon volleyball sweeps Cloud to advance in Region 6

By Sam Ojeda Staff Writer

The theme was a “Blackout” for Hutchinson Community College students for the Region 6 volleyball tournament opener.

Many fans piled into the Sports Arena on Wednesday night to watch the Blue Dragons and Cloud County battle it out. Even though the Thunderbirds were only 12-17 and the No. 6 seed, they were one of the hottest teams in the conference on a five-match winning streak.

The Blue Dragons swept the Thunderbirds in a lopsided matchup.

The start of set one was rough for HutchCC, which saw Cloud County leading 17-16. Blue Dragons coach Delice Downing called her first timeout to rally her team.

She told her players, “Remember who you are. Play with your composure.”

That is exactly what they did, as that would be the only timeout she needed the rest of the match.

The Blue Dragons would go on to win set one 25-20 after finishing on a 9-3 run to end the set. They were led in that set by freshman Taniya Golden and sophomore Blondie Penaflor. This performance was necessary to fill the shoes of injured sophomore Baylee Miller, who had been Hutchinson’s best

player all season.

The dominant duo would carry their game into the second set. The Blue Dragons started hot. They were up 7-1 to start the set, but a timeout by Cloud County coach Deb Monzon brought the Thunderbirds back. They brought the set closer at a 13-11 score. That only lasted so long, however, because the dynamic duo of Golden and Penaflor would come surging in to help their team win the set 25-19.

The third and final set saw the Blue Dragons start hot 11-2. They did not let it come close. Hutchinson would win the set 25-12 and the match.

The dynamic duo of Golden and Penaflor was elite all night. Golden finished with 10 kills, and five blocks, and Penaflor finished with nine kills and 10 blocks.

Downing was impressed by her hitting duo.

“Blondie’s 10 blocks were amazing for a three-set match,” Downing said.

“That is hard to beat.” Downing had the rotation set up so that they both were on the floor as often as possible.

“Seeing them on the court together is really fun because you got to see them go back and forth.”

Golden was also thankful for her teammates who helped her score many points.

“We all played as a team together,”

Photo by Josie Schrag/Collegian The Hutchinson Community College volleyball team huddles before a match earlier this season at the Sports Arena. The Blue Dragons swept Cloud County on Wednesday in the first round of the Region 6 Tournament.

Golden said. “That is Hutch volleyball, and that is how it should be done.”

Freshman Perline Fry also recorded a career-high in kills with 12, which added to a large number of kills tonight by the Blue Dragons.

The No. 19 19 Blue Dragons are slated to play No. 13 Butler Grizzlies in the semifinals in Liberal. The Grizzlies narrowly defeated Colby on Wednesday night.

This matchup will set up a third matchup this season between the two

teams, with Butler taking the first two.

Downing expects her team to respond well.

“They should already have that hunger inside of them after getting beaten twice already,” Downing said. “We are going to watch film again, and we are going to go after them like we did tonight.”

Hutchinson is now two wins away from a Region 6 championship, which the Blue Dragons have not wo since 2017.

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

Basketball, men’s

Nov. 1, FORT SCOTT, W 124-101.

Nov. 4, TRITON, 7:30 p.m.

Nov, 5, NEO, 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 9, LABETTE, 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 11, vs. Victoria at Great Bend 3 p.m.

Basketball, women’s

Nov. 1, BETHANY JV, W 88-44 Nov. 4, MINERAL AREA, 5:30 p.m.

Nov. 5, NEO, 5:30 p.m.

Nov. 9, WASHBURN JV, 5:30 p.m.

Nov. 11, Labette at Great Bend, 1 p.m.

Nov. 12, vs, Redlands at Great Bend 1 p.m.

Cross country

Nov. 12, at NJCAA Championships, Tallahas-

see, Fla.

Football

Aug. 27, NAVARRO, Texas, W 42-0 Sept. 3, at Ellsworth, Iowa, W 70-7 Sept. 10, IOWA CENTRAL, W 31-28, OT Sept. 24, at Coffeyville, W 14-9 Oct. 1, BUTLER, W 27-19 Oct. 8, at Dodge City, W 47-14 Oct. 22, at Garden City, W 657-7 Oct. 29, HIGHLAND, W 31-7 Nov. 5, INDEPENDENCE, 1 p.m.

Nov. 12, at Iowa Western, 1 p.m.

Soccer

Oct. 1, at Butler, L 3-0 Oct. 5, BARTON, W 2-0

Oct. 8, GARDEN CITY, W 3-1 Oct. 12, at Dodge City, W 6-0 Oct. 19, COWLEY, W 3-1 Oct. 22, at Barton, L 2-0 Oct. 30, JOHNSON COUNTY^, W 4-3 Nov. 3, vs. Butler^ at Stryker Sports Complex, Wichita, 4 p.m. ^ - Region 6 Tournament

Volleyball

Sept. 9, at NJC Classic, vs. Casper, W 3-0; vs.

Western Nebraska, L 3-1 Sept. 10, at NJC Classic, vs. Indian Hills, L 3-0; vs. Northeastern Colorado, W 3-1 Sept 14, at Colby, W 3-1 Sept. 21, GARDEN CITY, W 3-1 Sept. 23, JEFFERSON, W 3-1; IOWA WEST-

ERN, L 3-1 Sept. 24, MINERAL AREA, Mo., L 3-0; TRINITY VALLEY, L 3-2 Sept. 26, at Barton, W 3-1 Sept. 28, DODGE CITY, W 3-1 Oct. 1, SEWARD COUNTY, W 3-0 Oct. 5, at Cloud County, W 3-0 Oct. 12, BUTLER, L 3-0 Oct. 15, COLBY, W 3-2 Oct. 17, PRATT, W 3-0 Oct. 22, at Garden City, L 3-1 Oct. 26, BARTON, W 3-0 Oct. 28, at Butler, L 3-0 Nov. 2, CLOUD COUNTY^, W 3-0 Nov. 4, vs. Butler^ at Liberal ^ - Region 6 Tournament