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For The Pitt News Benjamin Ogrodnik said he is often frustrated when traditional publication methods he uses are unable to include films and project methodology as part of the final product.

“A finished article is just a really refined argument. The story is in the creation of it,” Ogrodnik said. “There is so much I have to leave out, like conversations, memories and interviews.”

There may soon be a new publication method available for scholars, allowing people like Ogrodnik — a film studies grad student — to store the entire process of a published project from start to finish. This ongoing project — called “Digits” — plans Margaret Cull (left) and Timothy Park play a game of rock-paper-scissors in to push scholarly publishing away from bottle at the Korean Festival Sunday night. Issi Glatts | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER PDF format to better display it on the web, keeping it easily accessible and relevant.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded four researchers at Pitt and Carn- Sid Lingala hat said one size fits all. It’s a lie.” egie Mellon University a $60,000 grant For The Pitt News Alexie, a Native American author of 26 in December to support the Digits projSherman Alexie entertained an audience books, spoke to several hundred people Sunect — a proposed solution to the struggles of fans Sunday as he talked about growing day afternoon at the Carnegie Library Lecthat come with publishing digital media up with hydrocephalus, a condition where ture Hall as a part of the Carnegie Library projects, such as not being able to archive fluid builds up in the brain and swells the and Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures’ Words online sources and easily present research head. & Pictures series. The event celebrated the methods.

“My head is enormous and hypnotizing. 10th anniversary of Alexie’s first young adult I couldn’t wear a little league hat as a coach novel, “The Absolutely True Diary of a PartSee Compatibilty on page 4 because my head’s too big,” Alexie said. “The Time Indian,” which won the National Book

which the loser gets hit with a plastic

Native American author discusses race, reading Award in 2007.

Fans of Alexie’s work were able to hear him illustrate his experiences growing up poor and sick on a Spokane tribe reservation, listen to his perspective on race and poverty and learn how that influenced his books — which are mostly semi-autobiographical.

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Alina Sheykhet remembered by friends as talented, kind

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n a seventh grade stage production of “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” Isabel Scrabis’ grandfather mistook Alina Sheykhet — who starred as Millie — for his granddaughter.

“The whole entire time he thought I was Alina, and he was so impressed. My mom had to break it to him that I was just swaying in the background,” Scrabis said. “I told [Alina] that [story] whenever we became friends a few years later and she thought it was hilarious.”

Scrabis — one of Sheykhet’s best friends — said the two were essentially the “same person.”

“We would show up to school sometimes wearing the same thing,” Scrabis said, laughing.

“We loved to go shopping.”

Scrabis and other close friends said they’ve been recalling fond memories of Sheykhet since Sunday, Oct. 8, when she was found dead in her home on Cable Place. Matthew Darby, Sheykhet’s ex-boyfriend whom she filed a protection-from-abuse order against, was charged with homicide Tuesday and arrested Wednesday in South Carolina.

Sheykhet, a Pitt junior aspiring to become

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a physical therapist, loved to sing and dance, her friends said. Scrabis — who met Sheykhet in middle school but became friends with her in their junior year at nearby Montour High School — said they took a number of chorus classes together and were in musicals together.

“She was so incredibly talented, had the most beautiful voice,” Scrabis said. “Anytime one of us would start singing the other one would join in.”

When Sheykhet broke her knee freshman year of high school, she was no longer able to pursue dancing to the extent she had previously.

But Zach Brandner, her roommate and a current sophomore broadcasting media major at Point Park, said this accident helped inspire her path of study — physical therapy.

“In a way, her knee breaking ended one career but it started a new,” Brandner said.

Sheykhet began her college career at Pitt Greensburg, where she met Brandner. Brandner and Sheykhet studied at the Greensburg campus for two years before moving into the same house this year on Cable Place in Oakland. Sheykhet began taking classes at Pitt’s main campus, and Brandner transferred to Point Park to pursue a major not offered a Pitt. Despite their busy schedules, Brandner and Sheykhet always man-

O’Neil said. aged to spend time together.

Sheykhet’s friends all agreed she was funny, “Every minute of my life — well I don’t want to say every minute of my life — but so much of kind, loving and always had a smile on her face. my life was spent with her,” Brandner said. “Every Even after three years of friendship, Brandner day of my life since we moved into the house that said he and Sheykhet never fought.

“We used to joke all the time, I said, ‘Alina, we were in in August, every day we hung out.”

At Pitt Greensburg, Brandner and Sheykhet we’ve been friends for three years and we haven’t were both part of the Outdoor Adventure and had our first fight yet. Like, do you think we’re Community Service club — a club that offered ever going to have a first fight?’ And she was like both outdoor excursions, such as rock climbing, ‘no.’”

Brandner said he wants people to know that and service opportunities, such as volunteering at food pantries. Sheykhet served as the vice Sheykhet was more than what happened to her. president of the club during her last year at the He said it’s important that people focus on the good things about her and less on the person who Greensburg campus.

Sheykhet was already beginning to get in- ended her life.

“I love her so much,” Brandner said. “It was volved in the Pitt main campus community after transferring this year. She got a job working at the just a pleasure and an honor having her as my front desk at the Hilton Garden Inn on McKee best friend.”

Editor’s note: Isabel Scrabis works for The Pitt Place, Scrabis said, and she joined the Animal News as an account Lovers Club at Pitt. executive.

“Alina loved animals,” Scrabis said.

“She was [recently] saying she was excited to go horseback riding.”

Paige O’Neil, a junior pharmacy major at Duquesne, became friends with Sheykhet in high school after taking a “college in high school” chemistry course together through Pitt. O’Neil said Sheykhet was extremely excited to move to main campus this year.

“She was like ‘Paige, we get to be together all the time!

We’re going to have parties, you’re going to be over at my house Courtesy of Isabel Scrabis every weekend! I get the big master bedroom — we’re going to hang out all the time!”

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Disussion, pg. 1 Alexie said he was not only part of a “tribe of hydrocephalics” but a “tribe of Indians,” talking about how his identity as a Native American influenced his perception on race relations. He expressed how “Native Americans are people too” and shouldn’t be set apart from other races just on the basis of skin color.

“The amount of melanin in our skin is all that differentiates people. I just have a little more melanin than white people and a little less melanin than black people,” he said. “In fact, a study showed that white skin originated from Africa. We all came from the same place.”

Though he emphasized people’s similarities, Alexie also encouraged his audience to explore new ideas and take the time to meet people different from themselves rather than staying in the same environment.

“We are constantly immigrating and emigrating,” he said.

John Thomasom, a first-year majoring in engineering at Pitt, said this part of Alexie’s speech resonated with him since he felt the same way by leaving his home state of Ten-

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Sherman Alexie spoke at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall Saturday afternoon to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his first young adult novel.

Sarah Cutshall |STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER bination. But being a sick, poor, brown kid nessee to study at Pitt.

“It’s always important to see different also has options. The U.S. government pays places and the different faces and ideas that for his surgeries. It pays for his education,” come with them. From where I’m from there he said.

Alexie also recounted how becoming would never be a talk like this,” he said.

Alexie also spoke about how his poor disillusioned with living on the reservation economic status inhibited him as a child, motivated him to leave and gain a better but it gave him an opportunity to survive education.

“I opened my math book in seventh and learn.

“Being sick and poor is a deadly com- grade and saw my mother’s name in it. I

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realized by looking at the math book that was made for the reservation I was in, that I would end up living the same lives as my parents,” Alexie said. “I wanted to leave the reservation.”

Kay Chase, a retired school psychologist, said she enjoyed Alexie’s lecture because of his spontaneous and lively rhetoric, which she also found in his novels.

“He brings out the humanity in all people. He has a sense of humor that allows him to talk about dark and troubling things like social inequality, reservations and how he dealt with it,” she said.

Jamilla Rice, who works in curriculum with Pittsburgh Public Schools and introduced Alexie at the lecture, said she really connected with the significance of literature on poor children.

“I used to live on welfare and I had a single mother, but I always had books in my house. I got my first library card here at Carnegie Library. I was financially poor, but literacy rich,” she said.

Like Rice, Alexie emphasized the importance of reading in his talk.

“Books will save your life,” he said. “The quality of your life is directly proportional to the number of books you read.”

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The team is planning to have their next advisory board meeting this coming summer, after which they hope to create an initial blueprint design for Digits containers.

Digits would allow scholars to easily start and publish their work using online infrastructure with more benefits than traditional publishing methods. According to Matt Burton, a visiting assistant professor at Pitt from the University of Michigan and Digits team member, users will be able to choose a template from a number of options and create their own content, writings, pictures and graphs, combine it all and publish it in the Digits ecosystem.

“It would be a lot easier to do it with a digit rather than doing it from scratch,” Burton said.

Though individual companies would be able to choose to charge customers for using Digits, scholars should be able to easily move and store their projects in Digits with the same or lower cost of working with PDFs or text documents.

Henry Skerritt, the curator of the KlugeRuhe Aboriginal Art Collection at University of Virginia and former editor and publisher of the Contemporaneity Journal at Pitt, described Digits as an efficient solu-

tion to the struggles of digital publishing.

“Any scholar uses a lot of online sources, and being able to store and archive them in a manner that is easily accessible and is going to save time and money is very valuable,” Skerritt said.

Though the project is still months away from implementation, Skerritt believes that Digits will revolutionize publishing in the humanities by requiring scholars to utilize new technology.

“I think Digits is an important step forward,” Skerritt said. “Accessing journals or articles online is the future of journal publication. Getting scholars to move past the notion of hard copy publication is important and is challenging.”

Otis said the project has given her hope that when she works on projects with faculty and grad students in the future she will be able to see them to the end of their products and not have to worry about it being lost as years pass.

“I wouldn’t just be starting something with someone and saying good luck,” she said. “I am able to ensure that at the end of the project, that if it takes a student five years to get a job, your project will still be there for you.”

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The main purpose of Digits is to use software containers — programs that are self-contained and can easily run on different computers — as an efficient way to store all the documents, media and sources associated with a digital research project.

Jessica Otis, a Digits team member and a digital humanities specialists at CMU, said Digits is not a completely original idea, but rather a reinvention of already existing software containers, applying it to publishing in the digital humanities field.

“We are not building a new way to do containers, we are just trying to put the infrastructure around container tech that makes this useful in scholarly academia,” Otis said.

Digits also makes it easier for content to be conserved through the use of selfpreserving containers that are always available and easily accessible. Rather than losing track of the digital projects they do in school, students would be able to create a digital portfolio of “digits” — the proposed repurposed software container created to easily store and preserve digital media

projects — with their entire work which they can present to employers.

“You could put work in a digit, and you could shut the project down, but the instant you want to resurrect it, you could click a button on the digit and you open it back up and here is the whole functioning thing,” Otis said.

The idea originated when a group of digital humanities scholars came together and lamented the trouble of sharing and storing digital media projects, Otis said.

“Digits is basically something that was borne out of our frustration with the fact that when you are doing a digital humanities project or digital scholarship project, there is no easy way to publish it,” she said.

While Digits is still in the planning stage, the group is using the grant to hold advisory board meetings from which they can learn the needs of scholars and professionals and how to improve the idea.

During the grant period, the members of the project have also been identifying the potential uses of digital containers in humanities publications and writing white papers — authoritative reports meant to help readers solve a problem or understand an issue.

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KEEPING KOSHER CUSTOMS AT MARKET TO GO

Ana Altcheck

For The Pitt News Sitting by the candle lights and surrounded by the people I loved, I experienced my religion — Judaism — as a culture of warmth and comfort.

Growing up, Friday nights at my home were a time of decompressing from a week’s worth of work, and a time I could spend with family, without worrying about everything else going on around us in the world. But coming to Pitt as a first-year on a city campus with bustling streets and thousands of different students with different backgrounds, I’ve found it challenging to make Friday nights feel the same.

For me, the commencement of college brought on a major culture change. Coming from a religious Jewish background, my family instilled certain practices and beliefs since I was born. One of the traditions of Judaism I connect with most easily — and on a regular basis — is the food. Food is a major part of Jewish culture, and is always a core factor in the celebration of different holidays.

While I kept Kosher at home, I’m not so strict with it that I wouldn’t be able to eat in Market or the local restaurants around campus.

But since I’ve arrived here, I have eaten almost every meal at the Kosher section of Market ToGo. Even though I am not someone who often gets homesick, I certainly miss the feeling of being in a community where everyone around me shared the same traditions and beliefs. But every time I walk into the Kosher section of Market To-Go, I get a part of that community back.

Back home, holidays would include a ceremonious gathering at the local synagogue.

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It consisted of a large group composed of my closest friends, family and community members — all joined together in song and prayer.

We shared warm embraces and joyous laughter constantly. While I have met other Jews at Pitt, the experience is much less intimate than it was where I come from.

The Kosher section at Market To-Go imports food from Milky Way, a Jewish restaurant on Murray Avenue in Squirrel Hill. The restaurant serves meals Monday through Friday, and offer dairy for lunch and meat for dinner, separating the two due to Kosher guidelines — something they also do at their Pitt location.

Moshe Tombosky is the rabbi who oversees the food and makes sure it is being properly taken care of according to Kosher restrictions.

He has been in the Kosher food industry for 26 years, and has been working with Pitt for the last four. “[The Kosher section] gives an opportunity to students who want to reach out to their heritage,” he said.

Tombosky said that at its height, the Kosher section reaches around 150 students. This is a relatively small number for a school made up of about 20,000 undergraduates.

But by creating a Kosher section for a small community, students who find it more difficult to connect with people who share their religious values still feel included in the school. It is always a feeling of comfort and similarity — a valuable tradition — when there is a religious connection in a world of secularity.

Garrett Aguilar |STAFF ILLUSTRATOR When I think about my daily trip to the Kosher section at lunch, I think of it more as an experience than I do just a meal. It does more than fill my appetite. Coming into the Kosher section, I am not only reminded of the traditions that marked my life growing up, I feel a sense of comfort. I’m greeted with warm smiles. It’s more than a station offered by the dining hall, it is a small glance at the culture that was such a large part of my life back home.

As a new student, it can often be challenging to find your place in a school. For me, a small section in Pitt’s cafeteria helped me get over the initial loss of connection with my heritage. For someone else, a place among the nationality rooms or a local church or mosque might be the key to keeping a sense of comfort and continuity. But whatever that small thing is, no one should be denied that kind of experience, no matter how insignificant it might appear at first.

The more time passes by, the more I am

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able to find connections with my new school. Even though there are distinct differences between the city I live in now, and the small town I grew up in, these differences make my new experience all the more significant.

While I used to spend nice days out in my backyard on my hammock, I now lay down in Schenley on a blanket. Even though I consider my best friends from home the most like me, I have found people here who I would never have interacted with before and have become just as close with them. I’ve been able to both grow personally and keep in touch with my upbringing — and that’s not a small thing.

Although the Friday night dinners may feel different and I do not celebrate the same customs, Pitt has at least offered me a place where I am still able to link my heritage with my everyday life. More importantly, I have been able to make a new tradition — eating at the Kosher section every day.

Write to Ana at aea51@pitt.edu.

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Trump breaks promises on CHIP funding Policy changes stalling have been a hallmark of President Donald Trump’s first several months in office. But for a politician who’s promised health “insurance for everybody,” Trump should find the events of the past two weeks an especially striking reversal.

The Children’s Health Insurance Program — a federal project designed to provide health care coverage for children of families with low incomes that are still too high to qualify for Medicaid — has received widespread praise for its effectiveness. Originally created in 1997 with bipartisan sponsorship from both Senate Democrats and Republicans, the program was reauthorized and expanded under both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. If Trump truly cares about improving health care coverage, CHIP should be an easy first step.

But when the question of continued

funding for CHIP rose once again late last month, Congressional Republicans, who control both the House of Representatives and the Senate, chose to focus discussion on their plans to change the tax code. And in the absence of any action, the program ran out of funding at the end of September.

Trump hasn’t shied away from the health care debate since CHIP lost its funding, however. On the contrary, the president signed two executive orders in the past week bringing major changes to how the federal government administers one of the most prominent health laws in the country — the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare.

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QUARTERBACK SHUFFLE COSTS PANTHERS

Adin Link

For The Pitt News This season’s Panther football team has certainly not been afraid to make unconventional choices in their game plan, especially when it comes to the quarterback position.

Pat Narduzzi has used two different quarterbacks in every game this season, and in Saturday’s 35-17 loss to NC State he did not stray from that strategy.

What makes this instance against NC State especially interesting, though, was Narduzzi’s choice to call upon a young, new face to be under center and lead the team. Though Narduzzi said it was a part of the plan all along, the choice to take out starting quarterback Ben DiNucci at a crucial point in the game cost the Panthers.

DiNucci was replaced with Kenny Pickett,

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a true freshman from Oakhurst, N.J. Pickett saw one play against Syracuse last week when DiNucci’s helmet popped off right before the final play, allowing Pickett to enter.

Pickett’s one-pass performance against Syracuse burned his redshirt and hinted at the fact that Pickett was likely to see increased playtime in the near future — this weekend, as it turned out. His number was called with 2:32 left to play in the third quarter.

DiNucci — the de facto starter after Max Browne’s season-ending injury against Syracuse — had been playing well up to that point.

He went 13-19 on passing in the first half with 114 yards, including a 33-yard touchdown to wide receiver Jester Weah. He strung together solid drives for the Panthers against a powerful NC State defence coming into the game with 17 sacks.

After an impressive first half, DiNucci and the Panther offense stalled in the third quarter, with back-to-back punts and a Wolfpack interception. But Pitt was still in a competitive position, down 21-14 to the Wolfpack with the ball and a chance to tie the game. On this crucial drive, Narduzzi decided to put in a quarterback who had a total of one passing attempt in his college career.

Pickett’s first drive saw him rush for four yards and throw an incomplete pass as the Panthers were forced to punt. His next drive early in the fourth quarter was easily his best of the day as he completed three passes to Weah for 23, 11 and 14 yards and led the Panthers to a field goal.

“We did it because the charts tell you to, you’ve got to take the points,” Narduzzi said.

“I don’t question that call.”

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Pickett was given one more drive — before Narduzzi put DiNucci back in to conclude the game — and his day ended as he completed five of 13 passes for a total of 61 yards and carried four times for 18 yards. Pickett looked decent in his debut — especially for a firstyear — but the difference compared to DiNucci was clear.

When Narduzzi replaced his starter, Pitt only found themselves trailing by one touchdown against a top 25 team. Because of the score and DiNucci’s solid performance, it’s questionable why Narduzzi chose to put a quarterback with almost no experience at the helm.

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Top Panther teams maintain streaks in weekend sports

Kait French Staff Writer

Though it was the celebration of homecoming, many Panthers were on the road this weekend. Taking on teams from Boston to Louisville, many of Pitt’s teams fared well over the weekend — topping ranked teams and continuing streaks — though some struggled against top opponents.

Men’s Soccer The men’s soccer team (8-6-0, 2-4 ACC) was on the road over the weekend, traveling to South Bend, Indiana, to take on No. 7 Notre Dame (93-1, 3-2-1 ACC). They battled hard against the Fighting Irish, ultimately clenching the win with a score of 1-0.

Seeking their third win against a ranked team, the Panthers started off slow — exiting the first half with only four shots on goal compared to Notre Dame’s 11. The first half ended tied at zero.

The Panthers came out ready for the win during the second half. First-year Alexander Dexter scored the only goal of the game during the

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52nd minute of play. The Panthers played tight defense, holding the Fighting Irish to a scoreless game.

“I am very excited for the guys and proud of their efforts,” head coach Jay Vidovich said. “I thought we came out fantastic in the second half, we got our goal and we were able to defend our lead.”

The Panthers will travel to Charlottesville to take on No. 10 Virginia this Friday as they seek another win against a ranked team.

Women’s Soccer The women’s soccer team (3-9-3, 0-6-1 ACC) was unable to secure a win this weekend as they fell to Louisville (9-6-0, 3-4-0 ACC) on the road.

The Cardinals shutout the Panthers, 3-0.

The Panthers were unable to get out from Louisville’s early lead. Just three minutes into the game, Cardinal Brooklyn Rivers scored the first goal of the game. Then, eight minutes later, Taylor Kerwin of the Cardinals rolled in another goal.

The Panthers worked to close the gap during

the second half, but were unsuccessful. Louisville added to their lead a few minutes into the second half, scoring their third goal. Panthers Taylor Pryce and Juelle Love achieved the only two shots on goal of the game.

The women’s squad hopes to turn their luck around as they head to Florida to take on Miami on Oct. 19, and Florida State on Oct. 22.

Women’s Volleyball The Panther volleyball team (15-4, 8-0 ACC) remains undefeated in conference play after their weekend wins against Syracuse (14-7, 6-2 ACC) and Boston College (5-12, 2-5 ACC). The Panthers took to the road to challenge the Orange Friday and face the Eagles Sunday.

Though Pitt took their first set against Syracuse with a score of 26-24, it took some time to get into the groove.

After an early lead from the Orange, the Panthers worked to regain control. Sophomore Stephanie Williams, senior Alex Rosignol and sophomore Nika Markovich carried the Panthers to success in the first set.

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Pitt continued their lead during the second set, squeezing another 26-24 victory. The two teams battled back and forth, keeping the score close throughout. Late kills from Layne Van Buskirk and Markovic sealed the victory for the Panthers.

The Panthers clinched their seventh conference win after they defeated the Orange during the third set, with a score of 25-19.

Pitt started off strong and determined, claiming an early lead. Syracuse did not go down without a fight as they tied the Panthers halfway through. The Panthers pulled together, ultimately defeating the Orange.

The squad continued their road trip as they headed to Boston College this past Sunday to take on the Eagles. They snagged their 12th straight win of the season, 25-18, and improved to 8-0 in the ACC. The Panthers held control of the Eagles from the start, firing off kills and dominating the first set, 25-17. First-year Chinaza Ndee and Williams led the team with four kills apiece.

Pitt also held the Eagles during the second set, and in a closely held back-and-forth matchup, came out on top 25-22.

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Link, pg. 8 to get Pickett in the first half, but Ben was doing a nice job.”

That is not the time to give a young player valuable time for the sake of experience, especially at a position as crucial as quarterback. DiNucci did a good job of managing the game and keeping the Panthers motivated. They were on track to hang tight, and the change could have been what upended that run.

In a perfect world, any team would be able to win while still giving their younger players gametime experience. Going into the game against NC State, Pitt was sitting at 2-4 and was entering a tough slough of ACC bouts — they are not a team who can afford this sort of move.

Narduzzi wasted no time defending his choice, explaining that he wanted Pickett to have experience on the field before it was too late.

“We’re going to need him somewhere,” Narduzzi said. “I don’t want his first action coming when it has to be.”

Narduzzi giving his young quarterback experience isn’t without benefits, but fans have to wonder why it would have to come at such a crucial point for the team. The Panthers were still in the game and DiNucci was clearly giving the team the best chance to win.

Courtside at the Cathedral event video and photo gallery online

Weekend Sports, pg. 9 until the end. First-year Kayla Lund led the set for the Panthers with four kills, while Williams and Van Buskirk both had three.

The Eagles were no match for the Panthers, though, as Pitt took an early lead in the third set and secured their match win. Williams finished out the matchup for the Panthers with two straight kills.

On the day, Pitt out-scored Boston College 54-40, with 38 kills to their 34. The Eagles’ combination of attack and service errors contributed to their downfall heavily.

The Panthers will take on the North Carolina Tar Heels back at home this Friday at 7 p.m. in the hopes of defending their undefeated ACC record.

Cross Country Pitt cross country was on the road Saturday as they headed to Sawyer Park in Louisville, Kentucky, to compete in the Pre-National Invitational. The Panthers finished 25th out of the 43 competing teams.

Leading the Men’s Seeded 8K for Pitt was junior Ryan Hughes, who placed 71st overall with a personal record of 24:16.1. Behind Hughes were junior teammate Aaron Lauer — placing 74th with a time of 24:17.4 — and sophomore Nick Wolk, placing 94th with a time of 24:46.6.

Junior Gillian Schriever continued the success for the Panthers, placing 60th in the women’s 6K with a time of 20:50.6. Following Schriever was junior Miranda Salvo, placing 111th, and Kelly Hayes, placing 150th.

The Panthers hope to improve in the coming weeks, when they travel back to Sawyer Park for the ACC Cross Country Championships on Oct. 27.

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