Thursday, March 9, 2023
OSU spring football game canceled, replaced with meet-and-greet Sam Hutchens Staff Reporter Cowboy football fans awaiting any semblance of game action will have to wait until the fall. There will not be an OSU spring football game at Boone Pickens Stadium this year, OSU announced in a Tuesday press release. Instead, there will be a 30-minute meet-and-greet with the football team on Saturday, April 15. It will be held in the
Sherman E. Smith Training Center. OSU cited ongoing constructions at Boone Pickens Stadium as the reason for the cancelation, due to an unavailable playing surface. Boone Pickens Stadium is being renovated as part of a $55 million project to upgrade seating. The meet-and-greet is part of OSU’s 2023 Orange Power Weekend. Scheduled for April 14-16, the weekend features Cowboy tennis matches, baseball and softball games and the 17th annual Remember the Ten Run. Admission to the tennis matches and the football meetand-greet is free. File Photo
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OSU cancelled its 2023 Spring Football game due to contribution in Boone Pickens Stadium.
Workers at OSU’s Chick-Fil-A share their work routine Michael Clark Staff Reporter
Carson Toulouse OSU baseball coach Josh Holliday said Ben Abram was the ‘Story of the game’ Wednesday against Arizona State. Abram pitched six innings and gave up three runs in OSU’s 7-4 win.
Cowboys escape late jam; sweep ASU ing OSU’s lead in a 7-4 win. OSU completed a two-game sweep of the Sun devils. Root struck out ASU’s Will Rogers on four pitches, finishing it Ben Hutchens off with a whiff-inducing Staff Reporter slider. “I was just focused on executing pitch by Bayden Root knew pitch,” Root said. “In the he was probably going to past at times, I’ve made pitch Wednesday against moments like that a little Arizona State, but he too big and have really didn’t know it would be been working with Rob on with the bases loaded. the mental side of executIn the eighth inning, ing pitches and controlRoot, a senior, entered ling what I can control. I the game with three Sun can’t control the situation Devil red jerseys on the I come into, it’s just about bases and the go-ahead executing my pitches and run at the plate. He played doing what I can to help a critical role in preservmy team win.”
Walton then passed the baton to OSU lefty reliever Drew Blake, who forced a popup to left field to end the ASU threat. “Bayden getting a strikeout was big and then Drew righted the ship after the first one getting away from him he righted the ship after the first one getting away from him,” OSU coach Josh Holliday said. “He pounded a good pitch in there and got a fly ball so it was great relief pitching.” Holliday said he thought OSU starting pitcher Ben Abram provided the story of the game. Abram made his fourth and longest appearance of the year for OSU,
pitching six innings and surrendering three runs. The entirety of OSU’s pitching staff is not healthy, so getting through midweek games without using a lot of arms is crucial, especially with a four-game weekend series against Utah Tech scheduled this weekend. “Ben is a guy we believe in,” Holliday said. “We felt like he can give us a true starting pitcher option with the experience that he has and the pitches he has and today you saw that in action, and he did it against a good team in Arizona State. So that’s a good one for him to get under his belt.” sports.ed@ocolly.com
“Sometimes it’s stressful.” Kaylia Hines, freshman majoring in international business, began working at Chick-Fil-A to make extra money on-campus. “This has worked well with my schedule, it helps pay my bills,” Hines said. “I start out with making sure everything’s restocked and clean, and then I begin to expo and take orders. About an hour before we close is when we start to clean up again.” Expoing is a term workers use when taking orders. Primarily this is determining which students are ordering what, ensuring the right items are put in a bag, and giving these orders out to students. “It’s stressful, sometimes,” Hines said. “Especially when it’s really busy. Everyone’s telling you something, and when you have a specialty order you don’t want to get it wrong. If you miss something, they might come and tell you. So, it does get a little stressful, but there are times that are low maintenance and aren’t as stressful.”
The consistently massive line of students just outside of ChickFil-A, forming a crowd that stretches long past the restaurant’s premises at any time, might be one of the first things students notice when walking through the Student Union. The workers have to deal with waves of hungry students who just left a tough lab or a long lecture. Such a constant source of chaos may lead some students to wonder what it is like to work a stressful job. Emily Fischer, a junior majoring in agriculture business,talked about her experiences working at Chick-Fil-A. “I wanted the experience of working somewhere I had never worked in my life. It’s taught me a lot of time management skills,” Fischer said. Fischer described the responsibilities she has to face during her shift. “It just depends, sometimes I’m on the registers, restocking cups and sauces, and in the back we make the sandwiches and nuggets,” Fischer said. news.ed@ocolly.com
Luke Tolbert The Student Union’s Chick-Fil-A is a hub for students.