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Men’s Tennis: Red Raiders head to Austin for the Big 12 Championships.

Column: MLK’s mission, vision of hope must not be forgotten.

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Lady Raiders set to defend Big 12 Tournament title

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he No. 14 Texas Tech women’s tennis team will compete in the Big 12 Championships with its first match of the tournament coming against No. 42 Kansas State at 3 p.m. on Friday, April 26, in Austin.

The Lady Raiders finished the season third in the Big 12 and enter the tournament as the number three seed. Kansas State is the six seed.

Tech won its first Big 12 Tournament championship in program history a season ago after defeating No. 9 Oklahoma State in the championship match 4-2.

The Lady Raiders enter this year’s tournament after going 18-5 during the regular season and 7-2 in conference play.

They finished the season with a four-match winning streak and have won eight of their last 10 matches.

“The last couple of weeks we’ve been starting to play some of our best tennis,” Tech head coach Todd Petty said. “We’re finally completely healthy. With this group, the experience pays off. The win or go home type environment, the older you are, the more you’ve been in it, the less stressful it feels.”

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Senior Gabriela Talaba gets ready to return the ball to her TCU opponent during Texas Tech’s match against the Horned Frogs on Saturday, March 31, 2018, at the McLeod Tennis Center. After finishing third in the Big 12 Conference during the regular season, the Lady Raiders enter the Big 12 Tournament looking to defend their tournament title.

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Obesity caused by often overlooked internal, external factors

First Gen Summit taking place today

By KAYLA BLACK Staff Writer

After viewing a picture taken when she sent her son off to prom, Taynay Cameron did not recognize herself.

Between working full time, raising a son and going to school, Cameron had not taken time to focus on herself and see who she was becoming.

At her size, there were times she felt invisible and moments she wanted people to know she was there, too. There were little things she wanted to do again. She wanted her outside appearance to reflect the energy she had inside.

“I looked at my son and said, ‘I want to be here,’” Cameron said. “I want to be able to walk and breathe normally, again.”

According to the Obesity Society, obesity should be treated as a chronic disease. Nikhil Dhurandhar, a physician and biochemist at Texas Tech who was president of the society from 2014 to 2015, said, just like diabetes, obesity can only be treated and controlled, not cured.

There are many factors that can cause obesity such as faulty sleep schedules, certain viruses and maternal nutrition. However, he said he prefers to describe the word obesity as obesities due to there being various causes of the disease.

“There’s nothing wrong with

The Office of First Generation Transition & Mentoring Programs will host the “I’m First Gen” Summit on Thursday, April 26.

Throughout the summit, there will be various presentations, panels and keynote speakers.

Patrick Byrne, the section coordinator for the Office of First Generation Transition & Mentoring Programs, said the purpose of the summit is to promote access to higher education for first generation college students and discuss issues these students face and how their peers can help address those issues.

The event aims to educate attendees on the inner workings of first-generation students and contribute to their long-term success, retention and graduation at the post-secondary level, Byrne said.

The Summit is set to begin at 8:30 a.m. and run until 4 p.m. @MattSetzekornDT

“I’m First Gen” Summit a disease,” he said. “The word ‘disease’ does not mean it is a terrible thing. All it means is there are things that are happening that are not necessarily under your control.”

Almost every single country in

the world is reporting increasing amounts of obesity. The Obesity Society estimates that almost 35 percent of all adults and 17 percent of children ages 2-to-19 years old have obesity in the United States.

The scientific community is

baffled about what could be the cause for obesity, due to there not being one specific reason, Nikhil Dhurandhar said. There is also often a stigma placed on obesity.

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Mayor hosts ceremony for bet on Texas Tech basketball

By NATHAN NEEDHAM Staff Writer

Lubbock Mayor Dan Pope received a case of Triple XXX Root Beer as a result of winning a friendly wager with Mayor John Dennis of West Lafayette, Indiana, home of Purdue University.

The root beer was delivered to Pope in the City Council Chambers on Wednesday, April 25th by Carrie and Greg Ehresman, owners of the Triple XXX Root Beer, on behalf of Mayor Dennis.

Pope and Mayor Dennis made the wager through Twitter on the NCAA Sweet 16 matchup between the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Purdue Boilermakers. Tech and Mayor Pope won the matchup on March 23rd with Tech scoring 78 points and Purdue scoring 65, advancing the Tech men’s basketball team to its first Elite Eight appearance in program history.

“You may recall that late last month Mayor John Dennis of West Lafayette, Indiana and I made a bet on the Texas Tech versus Purdue Sweet 16 game and Mayor Dennis, a man of his word is paying off that bet today,” Pope said. “The owners of the Triple XXX Root Beer, Carrie and Greg Ehresman are here

today in place of Mayor Dennis.”

After pleasantries were exchanged, a short video from Mayor Dennis was played where he excused his absence, accepted his defeat and joked about the friendly wager.

“I am a man of my word and I made a bet on a case of Triple XXX Root Beer and unfortunately I lost, so, the owners of Triple XXX Root Beer are there to deliver it to you personally,” Dennis said during the video. “But it would be a gentleman of you if you sent us that brisket anyway.”

The Ehresmans were delighted to be a part of the wager and deliver the Triple XXX Root Beer on behalf of Mayor Dennis and Purdue University, but wish the matchup turned out in their favor.

“We thought it was an honor to have our product as a wager and we are thrilled to be here, not necessarily for the reason we are here, of course we would have loved for the Boilermakers to win but, we are gracious losers and are honoring our bet,” Carrie Ehresman said.

After accepting the defeat and traveling to Lubbock, the Ehresmans were excited to bring the Triple XXX Root Beer product back to its roots in Texas.

The Triple XXX Root beer

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company started in 1895 at an Anheuser-Busch brewery in Galveston, Texas and many Texas residents have fond memories of drinking it while growing up, according to the Ehresmans.

“We were most excited about bringing the Triple XXX Root Beer back to its roots, pun intended, being that it originated in Galveston, Texas it is exciting for us to have it back in Texas,” Carrie Ehresman said.

Although Pope did not lose his side of the wager and provide brisket to Mayor Dennis, the Ehresmans got to enjoy a brisket lunch at Tom and Bingos.

“We had to have Texas brisket and it was delicious”, the Ehresmans said.

While at Tom and Bingos a Lubbock native who overheard the Ehresemans speaking about Triple XXX Root Beer introduced herself and told stories about remembering the beverage as a child.

“While we were there we met a former educator name Betty who remembered the Triple XXX Root Beer brand from when she was a child, so just today we met someone who remembers the brand and that is fun,” Carrie Eh-

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “People are quick to judge somebody who is suffering from obesity,” Nikhil Dhurandhar said. “They say ‘ah, I know this person has obesity and I know why. It’s because he or she is lazy or greedy.’”

That is where society is getting stuck, he said. Many believe losing weight is as simple as eating less and moving more.

Emily Dhurandhar, an assistant professor in kinesiology and sports management at Tech, said the basic understanding of obesity is if a person has an excess amount of weight, it is because he or she consumed more calories than they were expending.

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Lubbock Major Dan Pope meets with Carrie and Greg Ehresman, owners of the Triple XXX Root Beer in Lafayette, Indiana, inside the Lubbock City Council Chamber on Wednesday, April 25. The Texas Tech men’s basketball team defeated Purdue, 78-65, in its Sweet 16 matchup on Friday, March 23 to advance to the Elite Eight. resman said.

Greg Ehresman likes talking about the 145 Triple XXX Root Beer Thirst Stations that existed while he was a child and how his dad took him to the only Triple XXX Root Beer Thirst Station remaining, that the Ehresmans now own.

“As a kid my dad brought me into the Triple XXX Res-

taurant that we own now.

I remember sitting at the counter and getting a big root beer. It was a big deal, a real treat and when you talk about that, especially with people from Texas they are passionate about it because it was also a part of their childhood growing up,” Greg Ehresman said.

At the end of the event the Ehresmans presented Mayor Pope with a chilled Triple XXX Root Beer that he enjoyed but suggested it needed a touch of Texas.

“That is good! One thing that would make this better is to pour it over some Blue Bell ice cream,” Pope said.

Over time, researchers have discovered that the dose of exercise required to make a substantial influence on someone’s weight is much higher than people think. Emily Dhurandhar said many people struggle to meet the guidelines of 150-minutes per week of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, a suggestion made by the American Heart Association to maintain overall health.

To see clinically meaningful weight loss, the time spent exercising should range between 250 and 400 minutes per week.

“If you think about asking someone with a significant level of obesity to exercise at that level —if they’re currently sedentary, it may

take them a couple of weeks or even months to get to that point to be able to meet that amount of exercise,” Emily Dhurandhar said.

Even at the highest dose of exercise, an individual can expect to lose about 10-to-20 pounds at the most, she said.

And that is with exercising at high levels for months, consistently every day.

In the beginning of Cameron’s transformation, she said she almost did not want to lose weight because when she went to the doctor, they threw a lot of statistics at her which all resulted in her dying in the end.

There did not seem like there was any feasible way for her to lose the pounds she needed to lose.

Though working out can affect an individual with obesity so minimally, Emily Dhurandhar said it is still important because of the necessary number of calories an individual need to consume on a daily basis.

One reason for this need is in order to lose weight, energy intake has to be less than the calories burned. If a person is not exercising and is trying to lose weight their calorie intake will need to be lower than if they are working out. But, this can be dangerous.

“It’s not very safe for someone to consume less than 1200 calories a day, it is not possible to meet the body’s other nutrient needs that are not related to calories,” Emily Dhurandhar said.

Another reason for working out is to maintain lean mass, even though its effects

can be minimal in a matter of months for someone with obesity. Emily Dhurandhar said it is important to not lose functional muscle.

There is a perception of “the biggest loser,” she said, when it comes to exercising. It is the societal way of looking at weight loss, envisioning someone on a treadmill almost punishing themselves hours a day, with high intensity, sweating and breathing hard.

“I just want to make it clear that the thing that matters most, for burning energy, is simply covering distance; steps per day,” Emily Dhurandhar said. “If you don’t want to do something that might have a lot of psychological barriers that would affect your adherence, just walking is efficient to produce weight loss.”

Cameron said she found that in her case, it was a psychological factor. She had to deal with emotional things to remember food was her fuel and energy, rather than her comfort.

That is when she began to drastically lose weight.

“You constantly keep yourself in competition with yourself. Not with society.

Not with your trainer,” Cameron said, “with yourself, and you constantly make new goals.”

Cameron said battling with weight loss is just like dealing with any other medical issue. It is a daily thing.

“It’s a lifestyle change,” Cameron said. “It’s a change to be healthy, and overall, that will keep you motivated.”

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Texas Tech Honors College invites author to speak

By MARY BETH HOLM Staff Writer

Jack Sacco vividly remembers asking his father, Joseph Sacco, to tell him stories from World War II. Joseph showed his son his medals and swords he earned during the war. But when Jack turned 12, his father knew it was time to show him the pictures he took at the Dachau Concentration Camp.

Sacco did not know what a concentration camp was until his father explained it to him. His father told him the concentration camp was a place where the Nazis killed Jewish people.

The pictures were taken

by Joseph Sacco and his fellow soldiers, when the American troops liberated Dachau on April 29, 1945.

“These photos that he

showed me were horrific,” Sacco said. “He told me, ‘At some point in your life, somebody’s going to try and tell you that this didn’t happen, that the Holocaust did not happen. But it did happen.

I was there. I saw it.’”

At that moment, Sacco realized the Holocaust ended when his father and 149 other American G.I.’s set foot into Dachau.

The Texas Tech Honor’s College invited award winning author, Sacco, to lecture on his book “Where the Birds Never Sing” at 5:30 p.m. on April 23, at the Escondido Theater.

Dawson Herbert, a freshman history major from Houston, attended the lecture for extra credit. He said the Holocaust intrigues him because of the way it made the world look at genocide.

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Jack Sacco, a Pulitzer Prize nominee and award-winning author, speaking about his book “Where the Birds Sing” on April 23, 2018, in the Escondido Theatre. Sacco wrote the book based on his father’s

After the lecture, he gained a new perspective on the event.

“It opened up my mind and enlightened me on how the Americans experience the liberation of the camps,” Herbert said. “I had no idea and hadn’t heard about how the individuals experienced it.”

Sacco’s novel focuses on his father, Joseph. He said he was inspired to write the novel at a dinner party in Los Angeles, where Sacco lived for a time. A dinner guest noticed a picture of Joseph in Sacco’s house and asked if his father had fought in World War II. “It was about the time ‘Saving Private Ryan’ came out,” Sacco said. “I told them about (him) landing in Omaha Beach and going through the Battle of the Bulge and meeting General Patton. And he told me ‘You should write a book about that.’”

“Where the Birds Never Sing” was published by Harper Collins in 2003. To prepare for the book, Sacco said he conducted many extensive interviews with his father and his father’s war buddies.

Sacco wanted to write the book because he was fascinated with his father’s war stories and thought it would be great to put all the stories together in one format.

Sacco said he knew how historic his father’s accomplishments and eyewitness account was.

“They were witness(es) to the greatest battles of the 20th century,” Sacco said.

“Omaha Beach, Battle of the Bulge, they were there. They were there at the liberation of concentration camp, and I realized most soldiers didn’t get to see all of that. I thought I needed to preserve this for history. The power of a story is in the telling of it.”

Jimmy Phan, a sophomore political science major from Dallas, has visited

many Holocaust Museums around the country and even worked with a few Holocaust survivors. However, he said hearing about the liberation from the perspective of the Americans was different and interesting.

“Overall, it’s interesting to see how American perceive the Holocaust and the liberation of concentration camps in comparison to seeing the emotions that people who were liberated felt,” Phan said. “It’s kind of cool to see the inverse of feelings you would get.”

hear his voice.”

The hardest part of the process, Sacco said, was when he was close to finishing the novel because he felt like he was with his father and his father’s buddies going through World War II. “When the end of the war came, it was sad for me,”

Sacco said. “I had to leave them. They were sad to leave each other because they were brothers. They’d been through this incredible experience together. In that respect, I felt like I was with them the whole time. I felt very fortunate to be around them.” @MaryBethHolmDT

He told me ‘At some point in your life, somebody’s going to try and tell you this didn’t happen, that the Holocaust did not happen. But it did happen. I was there. I saw it.’

JACK SACCO AUTHOR Although Sacco’s book is nonfiction, he put the story in his father’s point of view.

He said it presented its own challenges in the beginning because he wrote the first few pages of his draft in third person. He then realized telling the story in third person was not as powerful as it could be in first person. With that, he changed the narration to what is published today.

“When my father told me the story, he told it in first person,” Sacco said. “Their emotions when they got (to Dachau), having been to Omaha (Beach), having been at the Battle of the Bulge. It was powerful because he was telling me ‘I saw it’ when I

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Meek Mill released from prison PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia-born rapper Meek Mill rang a replica Liberty Bell at center court of the Philadelphia 76ers' first-round clinching playoff game Tuesday less than two hours after being released from prison while he appeals decade-old gun and drug convictions.

Following a five-month campaign by his supporters to get him out, the state Supreme Court on Tuesday directed a Philadelphia judge who had jailed him to immediately issue an order releasing him on unsecured bail.

Mill, whose real name is Robert Rihmeek Williams, was sentenced in November to two to four years behind bars for probation violations.

He was whisked from the State Correctional Institution in Chester by helicopter to nearby Philadelphia, just in time to ring the ceremonial bell before the start of Game 5 of the 76ers playoff series against the Miami Heat.

"I feel great," Mill said before entering the Wells Fargo Center, where he greeted Sixers players in their locker room before the game the Sixers won 104-91 to advance to the second round of the playoffs.

"Welcome home Meek Mill," the game announcer told the rapper, who wore a Joel Embiid jersey and sat courtside next to actor Kevin Hart, Sixers co-owner Michael Rubin, Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie and Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf.

A team of lawyers and public relations consultants had waged an all-out battle to get Mill freed, leveling fierce criticism at the judge as a stream of high-powered figures and celebrities visited him in jail in the weeks and days before the Supreme Court ruling.

Mill issued a statement saying the past months had been "a nightmare,"

and thanked his many supporters and visitors, who included Rubin, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Democratic Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney.

"Although I'm blessed to have the resources to fight this unjust situation, I understand that many people

of color across the country don't have that luxury and I plan to use my platform to shine a light on those issues," Mill said.

He said he would now focus his attention on getting his convictions overturned, and that he looks forward to resuming his music career.

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MLK’s mission, vision of hope must not be forgotten

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o make my two-hour layover in the George Bush Intercontinental airport a little less twohours-longish, I picked up a bag of pretzel M&Ms and a copy of The Atlantic’s Martin Luther King Jr. special edition issue.

Having been an editor at a newspaper for nearly two years now, I couldn’t help but flip through the pages of The Atlantic’s “King Issue” (as they took to calling it) without thinking about how much thought and deliberation must have gone into every decision they made.

From the fonts and theme colors they chose to the words which prefaced this special edition in the Editor’s Note, their choices beautifully communicated reverence and recognition without being passive or patronizing.

Devoting an entire magazine issue to a man whose name is so deeply tied to our understanding of America’s relationship with race is a risky move as is. When you add the fact that this magazine was published in the thick of such a conten-

Avery Aiken is a senior communication studies major from The Woodlands.

tious season of conversations about race, it makes their decision to publish even bolder.

As I read that issue, I realized very early on that King’s mission was not only to achieve equal status for black men, women and children in America. Don’t get me wrong, that was his primary goal. But his mission stretched further than that.

His mission was to elevate our entire country to a state of equality; the kind of equality that looks past race, past gender, past socioeconomic status, past one’s roots, past one’s education and past our own stereotypes. He was an advocate of human rights and he believed that the human rights issue which needed to be addressed most immediately was racial discrimination against

African Americans.

Historically, I believe he was absolutely right to focus on that. He came into adulthood during a time when discriminatory practices left him standing at the back of the bus for hours on end; a time when young men were kept from certain universities because of the color of their skin; a time when there were two separate lines, two separate bathrooms, two separate benches — one for white men and one for those labeled as “colored.”

So, as he began to get involved in protests — peaceful protests, that is — he started to see how effective and how necessary such protests were.

From there, his presence in the erupting Civil Rights Movement absolutely exploded. King became the movement’s go-to man, a position he excitedly and conscientiously embraced.

Let me interject, the majority of my assertions in this column are based on the vivid picture I had of King after reading The Atlantic’s special edition issue.

Returning to my point, however, I was surprised to discover that King’s mission was not solely focused on racism, but instead focused on three main intersecting points. As Jeffery Goldberg outlines in his Editor’s Note, those three points are racism, militarism and poverty — points which King himself called the “three major evils.”

Now, interestingly, these points really do seem to exist in a tangle of importance. Much like how bell hooks’ term “imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy” displays the interconnectedness of those four concepts, King’s “three evils” cannot be isolated from each other because they are incredibly intertwined.

He reminds us that poverty is greatened by the way our government pours money into defense spending. We can even note that the term “defense spending” is essentially a euphemism which weakly disguises our devotion to militarism. Militarism, being a part of those three

evils, relates to racism by suggesting — sometimes, not always — that it’s the answer to racial differences. And racism relates to poverty and to militarism by perpetuating the former and being perpetuated by the latter.

All of that said, I think it is important to see how those three evils stretch farther into our society than what we see when we look at issue of white verses black.

King was not just advocating for equal treatment of black individuals, but advocating for serious societal reform. He saw the way our culture’s fractured state was destabilizing countless other institutions and he refused to sit back and watch that happen.

On behalf of his wife, Coretta Scott King, he spoke out against the Vietnam War, thus combating militarism. He encouraged us to address poverty by caring for others — perhaps this was because his Christian faith commissioned him to care for those in need. And finally, he loudly,

powerfully and eloquently challenged America to rise above our racist roots. He saw hope in our nation and painted that hopeful picture of peace and equality with every word he spoke.

So, I suppose the reason I felt the need to write this was because I feel like the civil rights movement is still alive. In some ways, it has lost its vision and kind of abandoned it’s hope. Therefore, we need to remember that the heart of this movement was the belief that people deserve more.

Soldiers deserve better. The impoverished deserve better.

And the men and women who still suffer through undue and unacceptable oppression deserve better.

We should not continue to modernize the mission of King, but instead revert back to his tenacious and faithful pursuit of equality. This is the hope he dreamt of and it is the same hope which moved the very mountains we want to push even further. @AveryAikenDT

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Democratic National Committee’s lawsuit will accomplish nothing

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his past week, the Democratic National Committee filed a federal lawsuit in New York, alleging that the Trump Campaign, WikiLeaks and Russia conspired to disrupt the 2016 Presidential Election.

This is the exact same thing that Robert Mueller has been investigating for over a year now. It is the very thing that Democrats so bad-

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ly hoped would lead to the demise of President Trump.

However, they have yet to show any damning evidence that the president is guilty of anything. Democratic Consultant Brian Fallon said on CNN that “the DNC was a

victim of what happened in 2016 and the DNC wanted to use the lawsuit to do their own fact finding.”

The DNC was not a victim of anything in 2016; if anything, the brass of the DNC colluded to deny Bernie Sanders the nomination so they could run arguably one of the worst candidates in modern American political history. And she lost. CNN reported on Friday, April 13, 2018 that Republican

brings, but it appears to have filed this lawsuit out of concern that Mueller’s investigation will not do as they had hoped and end Trump’s political career The 2016 Presidential race was a train wreck with two of the most unpopular candidates in American history and the silent majority of forgotten American voters mobilized to pick the better of the two.

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believe the midterms will result in a “Blue Wave” in the midterm elections. I, however, have yet to see the Democratic party move beyond the bitterness of their loss in 2016, and if they pursue this it will likely backfire, just as it did for Newt Gingrich and the Republicans during the first term of the Clinton administration. @DailyToreador

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3 days after fatal shootings, Tennessee Waffle House reopens N A S H V I L L E , Te n n . ( A P ) — T h e Te n n e s s e e Waffle House where four people were fatally shot reopened Wednesday amid tears and solemn remembrance of the dead, as the company said it will donate a month of the restaurant’s sales to help the wounded survivors and the families of the slain.

Employees wore orange ribbons and hugged one another while a steady stream of customers came in to order food and show support.

Among those killed when a man opened fire in the parking lot with an AR-15 rifle and stormed the restaurant early Sunday morning was an employee, Taurean Sanderlin, 29, and three customers. Four people were injured.

Proceeds from the next 30 days of sales at the store will go to the families of the four who were killed and to the two who remain hospitalized, said Waffle House spokesman Pat Warner.

One of the employees who was working during the attack wept and knelt outside the restaurant before four white crosses bearing the pictures and names of the victims.

The woman, who still had scrapes on her face, said she could not speak.

One of those who died in the carnage was Joe Perez, a 20-year-old customer from Nashville. His parents, who traveled to Nashville from Texas, signed the cross bearing their son’s name and the three others. They also did not want to speak.

Also killed were Akilah Dasilva, a 23-year-old student at Middle Tennessee State University who was well known to independent musicians and record labels in town. DeEbony Groves, a 21-year-old student at Belmont University, also died in the attack.

It was the employees who wanted to get the restaurant up and running, Warner said.

“I think it’s part of the healing process for them,” Warner said.

One of the first customers of the day bought about $8 worth of food but then left $100, Warner said.

A steady stream of customers came, saying they wanted to help the victims.

“I saw that they were reopening and that all in-

coming funds were going to the victims’ families, and I was going like, ‘OK. I should drop in and have something, and in some small way contribute,’” Michael Harrison said as he entered the restaurant.

Meanwhile, an audio recording released from a computer repair shop shows that the shooting suspect was fearful that someone had hacked his laptop.

The owner of Dang It Repair said Travis Reinking initially took his computer to the shop because he thought someone had hacked into it. But a recorded telephone conversation between Reinking and one of the shop’s employees shows he was also fearful that the company had tampered with his computer.

A man wearing nothing but a green jacket and brandishing an assaultstyle rifle attacked the restaurant early Sunday.

Police credit restaurant patron James Shaw Jr. with disarming the gunman and averting more bloodshed.

The gunman fled and led police on a massive manhunt that lasted more than 24 hours before he was captured.

Police have identified the suspect as Reinking, 29. He faces multiple criminal charges, including four counts of criminal homicide. A public defender listed as his attorney has not responded to an email seeking comment.

Police say they still do not know of a motive for the crime.

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Erick Davila faces lethal injection for using a lasersighted semi-automatic rifle to spray bullets at about 20 people — more than a dozen of them children — in apparent retaliation for an attack by one of the people attending the party on April 6, 2008. Annette Stevenson, 48, and her granddaughter, Queshawn Stevenson, were

killed and four others were wounded, including the birthday girl.

Davila, 31, would be the fifth Texas inmate executed this year, and the ninth nationally.

Queshawn Stevenson’s sister, then 11, testified she saw a man inside a dark car holding a gun with “a red dot,” and a short time later saw him standing next door and shoot. Davila was caught the next day after a brief police chase.

Davila’s attorneys argued to the Supreme Court that his execution should be stopped because it was improper for his trial judge, Sharen Wilson, now the Tarrant County district

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Prosecutors withheld information that Davila was so high on drugs during the shooting that he was “likely intoxicated to the degree that it would have rendered him temporarily insane,” lawyer Seth Kretzer told the high court in a filing. He argued that could have influenced jurors to decide on a lesser penalty, and questioned the constitutionality of how Texas juries decide death sentences.

The Supreme Court rejected the appeals without comment Wednesday evening, about 15 minutes before the scheduled execution.

State attorneys said Wilson never represented Davila, and state law and court rulings allow her office to represent the state’s interests in the case. Prosecutors also argued that Wilson prohibits assistants from participating in cases where they were defense lawyers and that courts have upheld the state’s capital sentencing procedure.

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tary intoxication is not a defense under Texas law and that the shootings were intentional and deliberate. Katherine Hayes, an assistant Texas attorney general, told the justices that Davila told detectives he went “to a shoot ‘em up,” was trying to “get the guys on the porch” and never mentioned any intoxication to police.

Defense lawyers at Davila’s trial tried to show he didn’t intend to kill multiple people, a criterion for the capital murder charge.

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Sigma Chi colony changes legacy, returns to Tech

By RYANN RAEL L a Vida Editor

After nearly five years, Texas Tech Fraternity Sigma Chi is looking to regain its official charter and return to campus.

Sigma Chi Epsilon Nu lost its charter from the Sigma Chi Headquarters for “recurring disciplinary issues,” according to a statement from the Sigma Chi Headquarters.

Such disciplinary issues included six counts of hazing, one count of possession and distribution of alcohol, one count of intoxication, one count of theft and three counts of actions against members of the university community, according to a university disciplinary decision letter dated April 20, 2012, which cited the incident on Feb. 18 of the same year.

In 2017, a group of students, with the support of Sigma Chi alumni, began the process of colonizing Sigma Chi at Tech once again.

“The alumni really wanted Sigma Chi to come back, and they really pushed with the headquarters and (headquarters) gave us a second chance after they shut (Sig-

ma Chi) down for four years, and basically to restart the chapter and the colonization process,” Ryan Moreland, a sophomore undeclared major from Plano and the philanthropy chair of Sigma Chi, said.

Sigma Chi was colonized at Tech in 1955, according to a Greek Life Timeline from Tech. It has cultivated a strong web of alumni, including Tech football coach Kliff Kingsbury.

Proud of their alumni’s accomplishments, the members of Sigma Chi have a framed and signed jersey and football helmet from Kingsbury, displayed in the entryway of its new house.

“We’ve got Kliff, he comes out to chapter a few times, and we’ve got, I think, 200 alumni in Lubbock and they’re helping a lot,” Nick Test, a sophomore marketing major from Flower Mound and vice president of Sigma Chi, said. “When the old chapter got kicked off, there was about $55,000 in fines, and they paid all that off before we got here, and they’re financing the house right now. They really want us back and they’re really pushing us in the right direction.”

It has been a long road rebuilding the fraternity, Hunter Estrada, a sophomore electronic media and communications major from Fort Worth and the colony editor, said.

There have been several setbacks, however, many of the founding members are in their sophomore years, giving them several more semesters to bring Sigma Chi to full strength.

Estrada, whose former roommate convinced him to join the colony rather than rush an established fraternity, said he does not regret his decision.

“Bringing back a fraternity, obviously, is not easy, (not) as easy as just joining another establishment and having a good time with that,” he said. “But in the future, the skills it takes to actually establish it is really beneficial…It's about the experience and I don't regret it at all, these guys at Sigma Chi are all great, they’re all hard workers and want to get this done.”

Sigma Chi now has more than 30 members and is continuing to grow. Estrada said they are expecting the charter to be returned at the

end of the fall 2018 semester.

Colonizing a fraternity is not just recruiting members. Test and other original members created the rules and bylaws for Sigma Chi, as long as the Tech chapter remains on campus, in a 50page manifesto.

And hopefully we’ll be up there with all the other fraternities and be equals with the ones that are top dogs.

RYAN MORELAND PHILANTHROPY CHAIR While other freshmen may have been hanging out at the pool or sleeping, the founding fathers were creating the rules for the chapter.

“It was hard,” Test said.

“One of the guys from headquarters gave us this big pamphlet, and in between classes my freshman year, we’d go to the (Student Union Building) and there'd be eight of us, just grinding it out for hours.

And it was hard because we had to vote on rules that

would not just affect us but everyone in the future; but I honestly think we did it in the right way.”

Sigma Chi is gradually bringing back traditions the fraternity is known for. On April 21, it hosted a philanthropy event at its lodge for the Huntsman Cancer Foundation, which has been the national Sigma Chi philanthropy since the 1960s, Estrada said.

“We love people to just come out and help us be the generation to end cancer,” Moreland said. “That's really our whole message, doing our philanthropy and being associated with Huntsman is we want to be the generation to end cancer and that's our goal.”

The event was also a chance for the community to get acquainted with the new Sigma Chi. Pledge classes have been small for the fraternity because the founding fathers are selective about the men in Sigma Chi, taking only those who they believe will uphold their ideals, Test said. One of the traits they look for in pledges are men who will do the right thing, at all times.

Even at full strength, Test said he wants to keep the fraternity at around 80 members, which he said would allow Sigma Chi to bring more to the Lubbock and Tech communities.

Soon, Sigma Chi will return its traditions. As it grows in numbers, they will have the financial flexibility to host more events.

“The other traditions and everything Sigma Chi is really known for and associated with will eventually come back within a couple years,” Moreland said. “And hopefully we’ll be up there with all the other fraternities and be equals with the ones that are top dogs.”

Despite bumps in the road, the colony is regaining notoriety on campus, Moreland said.

Starting over allows the founding fathers to reinvent the Sigma Chi chapter at Tech, free from stigmas, Test said. They are building their legacy and carrying on the legacy of alumni like Kingsbury.

“It's just different and that's what I like about it,” Test said. “We’re different than other fraternities.” @RyannRael_DT

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One week of recycling not enough to save the Earth

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eople should recycle, yes, because the earth is beautiful and it is our home. I am an avid recycler, going as far as taking plastic bottles and things of that nature out of my friends’ trash if I see them mindlessly toss it.

While I recycle anything I can and sell clothes I’ve grown out of to second-hand stores rather than trashing them, the sad truth of the matter is that my actions don't matter that much in the grand scheme of things.

I can shave my head so that I don't use shampoo and conditioner which comes in plastic bottles, go vegan, grow my own food, only ride a bike and plant trees. But until corporations stop dumping waste into our world, I can recycle all I want but it won't save the planet.

There’s been a lot of debate about whether or not global warming is a thing.

It is.

Species are dying, glaciers are melting and we are basking in the air conditioning.

Global warming is real.

It is a real problem.

Right now, it is eco week on campus. It's the week to take pictures of pretty flowers, post vacation pictures of a natural wonder with the hashtag #savetheearth and maybe plant a tree. This is not enough. A week dedicated to recycling efforts is great, but it won’t stop ship breaking around the world.

Never heard of ship breaking? I hadn't either, until a professor showed my class a video. Ships that have reached their expiration date are dropped off in places like India. Ship breaking companies exploit the poor to tear down hunks of metal on the beach to harvest the metal.

Not only is this a savagely inhumane practice, toxins released from destroying a ship

Ryann Rael is a freshman journalism major from Albuquerque

seep into the ocean, which is only feet away from the boat.

Toxins like asbestos, are pouring into the ocean every single day.

If you don’t care about marine life, like dolphins and sea turtles, then you might not care what we are pumping into the ocean. If you need a reason to get behind the end of ship breaking, think about everything we consume that comes from the ocean, from seaweed chips, to fish and sushi. Some people don’t like seafood, that

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Everything is connected, and we as a people are spiraling down a path that if we do not fix immediately, will destroy everything. Looking at satellite photos of the earth from the 1970s, about 50 years ago compared to today's images, breaks my heart.

I know by now many readers have written me off as some liberal, tree-hugging hippie. I am not. I eat bacon and drive a car like the rest of you. I care about the environment, too. If I were to have children, I wouldn’t want them to be concerned about the environment, or to even blame me and my generation the way we blame the older

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It can make us feel better to point fingers at the baby boomers and shift all blame to them.

Yes, older generations rolled the snowball down a mountain, but it will take all of us to stop it. It starts on a personal level, each doing his and her due

diligence: recycling, walking and biking when applicable and being more conscientious about the state of our world.

It takes each individual person to petition new laws, and hopefully change company policies that hurt the earth and environment. At this point, I don’t know if we can get the

earth back to the way we found it (or when we evolved from a cell clump), but there are seven billion of us, and if we can all take baby steps, hopefully we can make the earth a little better for the next round of humans to make strides. @RyannRael_DT

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clinched so many big wins for us, so she’s falling back into that. The positive for her is she’s feeling really healthy and fresh right now when a lot of people have played a lot of matches she’s feeling really good right around this time.”

The Lady Raiders hope Jackson’s late-season resurgence can help push them past Kansas State, who Tech defeated 4-0 on Sunday, March 25, during the regular season.

Kansas State finished its regular season schedule 14-9 and 4-5 in conference play. However, it enters the Big 12 tournament on a four-match losing streak.

Freshman Maria Linares leads the team in singles wins with 12. She fell to Maltby in straight sets 6-2, 6-1, during the two teams’ previous matchup.

The winner of the match will face the winner of match five in the semi-finals at 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 27.

Match five consists of No. 7 Oklahoma State and the

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Tech heads into the tournament with five nationally ranked singles players, the most in the Big 12, and one nationally ranked duo.

No. 115 senior Katelyn Jackson joined No. 21 senior Gabriela Talaba, No. 56 junior Felicity Maltby, No. 97 Sabrina Federici and No. 125 senior Sarah Dvorak in the latest ITA/ Oracle rankings released on Tuesday, April 24.

Jackson is 4-0 on the season, recently returning to the lineup after suffering a broken arm earlier in January. Petty believes her time recovering from the injury may benefit her in postseason play.

“She broke her arm the second day of practice in January, so she missed the first 12-14 matches,” Petty said. “She hasn’t lost since she’s been back, she’s won so many big matches for us, being a senior, she’s

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The Oklahoma State Cowgirls enter the tournament as the number two seed after finishing the season 18-3 overall and 7-2 in conference play.

The Lady Raiders defeated the Cowgirls 4-1 on Sunday, April 15, for their highest-ranked victory of the season.

In singles play, Oklahoma State is led by No. 20 senior Vladica Babic who defeated Talaba in straight sets 6-3, 6-3, earlier in the season.

The Lady Raiders also defeated Oklahoma 4-3 on Friday, April 13, and Iowa State 4-0 to close out the regular season on Sunday, April 22.

With a victory on Saturday, the Lady Raiders would advance to the championship match at 1 p.m. on Sunday, April 29, for a chance at winning back-to-back Big 12 Tournament champion-

ships for the first time in program history.

Tech would face one of Texas Christian University, West Virginia, Baylor, Kansas or Texas in the championship match if they defeat Kansas State.

The Lady Raiders lost to Kansas 4-0 in their first Big 12 match of the season on Friday, March 23.

Kansas finished the season fourth in the Big 12 with a 7-2 conference record and a 15-5 record overall.

Tech defeated TCU 4-0 on Saturday, March 31, and Baylor 4-0 on Friday, April 6 — two of the team’s five sweeps during conference play.

The No. 6 Texas Longhorns defeated the Lady Raiders during Tech’s Senior Day on Sunday, April 8, 4-2. The Longhorns won the Big 12 title after going 9-0 in conference play. They feature the No. 1 player in the country sophomore Bianca Turati.

The Lady Raiders defeated West Virginia 4-0

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Texas Tech seniors Sabrina Federici and Sarah Dvorak serve during doubles against Denver in the NCAA Lubbock Regionals on Saturday, May 13, 2017, at the McLeod Tennis Center. Tech will be attempting to make the NCAA Tournament again this season with a strong showing in the Big 12 Championships. on Friday, April 20. West Virginia went 1-8 in conference play and 8-12 overall.

Petty said the team’s goal heading into the Big 12 tournament is to win it all.

“They want to win it all, they want to win the championship, and they won it last year,” Petty said. “They

felt like they left some matches out there in the regular season that we had a shot to finish and didn’t.

It’s just about peaking at the right time. You want to play confident tennis down the stretch and get ready for tournament time.” @ConnellyBockDT

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Turner, Adams power Nats over Giants, 15-2

Castellanos powers Tigers over Pirates, 13-10

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Washington manager Dave Martinez insisted Trea Turner and the Na-

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Nicholas Castellanos stayed hot with four hits and a key home run and the Detroit Tigers used 20 hits to outslug the Pittsburgh Pirates 13-10 on Wednesday night in the opener of a doubleheader.

The teams combined for 34 hits, including four from Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera and three from Jeimer Candelario.

Castellanos was coming off consecutive threehit games against Kansas City. He’s 10 for 15 with two homers and nine RBIs in Detroit’s last three games, and he’s batting

tionals would snap from their scoring slump soon, even as the losses piled up and the runs didn’t.

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Behind three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer, Washington didn’t need much, but got plenty.

Turner got five hits, Matt Adams homered and drove in six runs, and the Nationals broke out of their offensive funk in a big way, routing the San Francisco Giants 15-2 Wednesday to end a fourgame losing streak.

“That was fun,” Martinez said after his team dodged a three-game sweep.

“The boys came out to play.

They’ve been swinging the bats well. Today we just got hits, the timely hits. It was good day for all of them.”

.337 for the season.

Candelario homered, doubled and scored five runs for Detroit. Leonys Martin led off the game with his third home run of the season, and James McCann also went deep as the Tigers won for the sixth time in eight games.

Pittsburgh has lost seven of eight. Francisco Cervelli had three hits and a careerhigh six RBIs, including a three-run homer in the third inning. His two-run double in the eight pulled the Pirates within 12-10.

Corey Dickerson also had three hits for Pittsburgh, and Colin Moran homered.

Daniel Stumpf (1-0) retired all four batters he faced for his first major league win.

Shane Greene pitched a 1-23 ninth for his fourth save in six opportunities.

Jameson Taillon (2-2) allowed seven runs and 10 hits in 3 2/3 innings. He has been tagged for 12 runs in 5 1/3 innings in losing his last two starts after pitching a combined 15 scoreless innings to win his previous two outings.

Tigers starter Jordan Zimmermann lasted just three innings, giving up six runs and six hits.

Detroit added an insurance run in the ninth on a throwing error by Cervelli, the catcher, on Niko Goodrum’s tapper in front b e t w e e n t h e p i t c h e r ’s mound and home plate.

Castellanos’ two-run shot off Kyle Crick capped a fiverun fourth inning and gave the Tigers an 8-6 lead. McCann led off with his homer and Cabrera hit a two-run double in the frame.

Cervelli’s single got the Pirates within 8-7 in the fifth.

However, Candelario countered with a leadoff home run in the sixth and the Tigers scored three times in the eighth to make it 12-7.

RHP Joe Musgrove (strained right shoulder) threw a 38-pitch simulated game. He is likely to join one of the two Class A farm clubs next week to begin a rehab assignment.

Tigers LHP Matthew Boyd (0-1, 1.40 ERA) faces Pirates RHP Chad Kuhl (2-1, 4.57) in the second game. Both teams can add an extra player for the nightcap. Detroit will call up RHP Artie Lewicki from Triple-A Toledo while Pittsburgh will recall INF/OF Jose Osuna from Triple-A Indianapolis.

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Coutee, Cantrell should be drafted in middle rounds

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oth former Texas Tech Red Raider wide receivers Keke Coutee and Dylan Cantrell will easily be drafted in this year’s NFL Draft, which starts at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, while quarterback Nic Shimonek will likely be signed as an undrafted free agent.

While Cantrell dominated the NFL combine, Coutee has the appeal of his play as a Red Raider as one of the top receivers in the country. Coutee ranked No. 4 in receiving yards with 1,429 yards in the 2017 season.

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Coutee also ranked fifth in receiving yards per game, tied for 16th in receiving touchdowns and eighth in receptions per game, according to NCAA. While not the best receiver in the draft, this sets Coutee up to be drafted in the late second or third round.

It’s possible that Coutee will be drafted by the Buf-

falo Bills, Jacksonville Jaguars, Cleveland Browns, San Francisco 49ers, Carolina Panthers, Tennessee Titans, Atlanta Falcons or Minnesota Vikings in the second round. However, the more likely scenario is he is picked up in the third round by either the New York Giants, Indianapolis Colts, Denver Broncos, Green Bay Packers, Arizona Cardinals or any of the teams mentioned earlier.

More than likely, Coutee will be drafted by Green Bay, Arizona or Buffalo as those teams have a higher

need for wide receivers but not a big enough need to use those picks in the first or second rounds.

For Cantrell, those same teams could pick him up, as all of those teams need a wide receiver, but it’ll likely be in the fourth, fifth or sixth rounds. Regardless, he will get drafted most likely to a team that could have him as a backup to a veteran wide receiver like the Houston Texans with DeAndre Hopkins.

It’s harder to tell who teams will pick further down

CELEBRATING SUCCESS

Texas Tech sophomore infielder Josh Jung was named the Co-Hitter of the Week by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, announced on Tuesday, April 24.

The honor is his first national award in his collegiate career, but he has earned two Big 12 Player of the Week honors. Previously, former Red Raider Hunter Hargrove received the honor in 2017, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Over the course of last week, Jung recorded 10 hits including two doubles, two triples and three home runs. Two of his home runs

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Red Raiders clinch spot in 2018 NCAA Austin Regional Staff Writer

The Texas Tech women’s golf team earned a bid into the NCAA Regional round of the NCAA Championship during the official selection show on the Golf Channel on Wednesday.

This is Tech’s eighth time in the last nine seasons to clinch a spot in the NCAA Regional round of the tournament, according to Tech Athletics.

The Red Raiders will be a No. 13 seed when they travel down to Austin for the event, according to Tech Athletics. The tournament will consist of a saturated 18-team field and will be from Monday, May 7, to Wednesday, May 9, at the University of

lor University, as well as No. 7 seed University of Houston, No. 10 seed Texas A&M University, No. 3 seed Michigan State University and many more, according to Tech Athletics.

This is the Red Raiders 18th appearance in the NCAA Regional round in program history, according to Tech Athletics.

They will need to finish in the top-6 in order to be eligible to advance to the NCAA Championship. It would be their fourth visit to the NCAA Championship in program history and third visit in the last four years.

Tech is fielding an experienced lineup for this event with seniors Gabby Barker and Lauren Mason leading the squad, accord-

ing to Tech Athletics. Both Barker and Mason have now advanced to the Regional round in all four years of their college careers. Barker picked up an individual first place finish earlier this season. Junior Mami Yamamoto will be competing in the Regional round for the third straight time in her career.

The Red Raiders best finish with Barker and Mason was in fifth place at the NCAA Championships in 2015, according to Tech Athletics. It marked the highest finish in program history.

Tech has seen the hostcourse once this season, tying for sixth place at the Betsy Rawls Invitational in early October, according to Tech Athletics. @SamMedlinDT

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came in the game against New Mexico on Tuesday, April 17, in Albuquerque.

In the same game, Jung completed a cycle, which has not been done by a Red Raider since the 2008 season, according to the release. His cycle was the 19th in Big 12 history. On top of the cycle, Jung hit 5-5 on the day with his last hit being the triple to complete the cycle in the ninth. He also totaled eight RBIs in the game. In total, Jung had 13 RBIs and eight runs as well.

The Red Raiders rounded out last week with a loss to Oklahoma on Sunday,

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April 22, in Lubbock, but finished with a 3-1 record for the week, which helped move Tech to No. 4 in the latest D1Baseball poll.

Tech travels to Fort Worth to face the TCU Horned Frogs with the first game starting at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 27.

The next game will start at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 28, and the series finale will be at 1 p.m. on Sunday, April 29.

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“It’s always exciting to hear your name called during the selection show,” Tech head coach JoJo Robertson said, according to a Tech Athletics release.

“I’m really proud of the team for their hard work this spring and the improvements they’ve shown.

I’m looking forward to the next week of preparation and the chance to do something special in Austin.”

One of the top-ranked schools in the nation, the University of Arkansas, will be the No. 1 seed in Austin, according to Tech Athletics.

Other notable schools competing include conference rivals No. 2 seed University of Texas, No. 6 seed University of Oklahoma and No. 9 seed Bay-

Browns, 49ers, Colts, Broncos, Jaguars or Texans. He just does not have enough upside for teams to use a pick on him.

The rest of the former Red Raiders, Mychealon Thomas, Zach Barnes, Cameron Batson, Talor Nunez, Derrick Willies and Justin Stockton have little to no chance of being drafted, but Thomas, Barnes and Batson will likely be signed as undrafted free agents to teams that wish to build some depth.

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Four of the five seniors from the 2017-2018 Men’s Basketball team were present for the Texas Tech men’s basketball celebration held in the United Supermarkets Arena on Tuesday, April 24. The seniors from left to right include Keenan Evans, Justin Gray, Niem Stevenson and Zach Smith.

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MEN’S TENNIS

Red Raiders set to travel to Austin for Big 12 Championships on Friday

By GABRIELLE TAITE Staff Writer

The Texas Tech men’s tennis team is set to travel to Austin, Texas to compete against Oklahoma in the Big 12 Championships on Friday, April 27.

The team most recently lost, 2-4, to Texas Christian

University in its final game of the 2017-2018 season, according to Tech Athletics. In addition, the team finished 1-4 in overall conference play.

Tech Head Coach Brett Masi said that he is hopeful for what the team will do in the championships.

“Hopefully we just have a lot of good mojo going down

there to Texas,” Masi said.

“In the past, we just wanted to do well against some teams we might have lost to in the regular season, so this year is no different. Maybe we’ll go down and have a better performance against OU. I think it’s just mentally preparing more than anything.”

The last time Tech played

OU was earlier this month, where they lost, 1-4, according to Tech Athletics.

During the match, senior Connor Curry and freshman Ilgiz Valiev made a 6-0 triumph over No. 62 Ferran Calvo and Adrian Oetzbach.

Freshman Matheus Leite and junior Tommy Mylnikov were also able to get back on serve at 4-3 after a Mylnikov forehand winner down the line on a deuce point. Leite eventually closed out the five-game flurry with a service hold.

Masi said performing well in doubles play is essential to the Red Raiders success during the tournament.

“When we’ve struggled is

when we’re not getting there one all, two all,” Masi said.

“Once we get in those moments we actually do pretty well, or we jump out to the leads right away. I think that’s the biggest thing is when we come out making sure we’re holding the serve and taking care of first shots.”

Masi also said that the team continues to work on doubles every day in practice in order to improve.

No. 17 Oklahoma most recently won, 4-3, against Oklahoma State, according to Tech Athletics.

Masi said that in addition to preparing as a team, the Red Raiders have to evaluate themselves individually in or-

der to prepare for the Sooners.

“In terms of their own play, it’s just staying in shape, keeping their bodies healthy, and at this point in the year tennis is a side product,” Masi said. “You have to go out there and try to play your best, but mentally is what you have to be ready for.”

Following the game against the Sooners, Tech will play on Saturday, April 28 and Sunday, April 29, with the teams to be determined, according to Tech Athletics. First serve for the match against the Sooners is set for 12 p.m. at the Texas Tennis Center. @Taite_DT

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The Texas Tech men’s tennis team celebrates after defeating ranked rival Texas, 4-3, on Thursday, April 19, 2018, at the McLeod Tennis Center. After finishing the season with a 1-4 Big 12 record, the Red Raiders will travel to Austin to compete in the Big 12 Championships.

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