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It isn’t good enough to know how to make money — it’s also knowing how to keep it.

Though students pursue a degree to increase their likelihood of a well-paying career, one of the growing concerns in higher education is poor financial literacy.

In response, USF started Bull2Bull seminars to promote fiscal education.

On Tuesday in the Student Services Building, two Bull2Bull

educators, Jaclyn Bertrand and Shane Mangold, warned students just how easy it is for thieves to steal personal information and explored the relation between credit and identity theft.

“Sadly, the world we live in means that identity theft is a constant threat,” Mangold said. “But with these tips, students can help better ensure their security from dangers of ID fraud.”

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SG campaign accusations go to trial

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Students will meet today for a trial that will determine whether a newly elected senator, who is accused of harassing voters, violated campaign rules.

Convening this evening in the Student Government (SG) Chambers on the fourth floor of the Marshall Student Center, the SG Supreme Court will hear the case against Saeed Sinan and decide if he broke rules prohibiting casting more than one vote and using a mobile polling station.

According to John Quiroz,

the SG supervisor of elections, if Sinan is found guilty, he will be disqualified from the election and lose his seat in the SG Senate, which will likely result in an expedited election for the vacant seat from the College of the Arts and Sciences.

The evidence submitted to the court includes a video of Sinan approaching a student in the Library and allegedly urging him to cast a vote in his favor while standing over the student. Quiroz, along with acting SG Senate President Abdool Aziz and former SG Director of Communications Maggie Hall, will be called to testify.

In a statement submitted

to the court, Aziz wrote that he saw Sinan walking up to students on the night of Feb. 19 and urging them to use their phones or laptops to cast votes for him, as well as newly elected student body president Andy Rodriguez.

In response to this, Sinan wrote to the court that he was helping a friend and INTO student who didn’t understand the voting directions.

“After the website was open, I continued guiding my friend through the process as he did not understand the directions well, as he is not a native English speaker,” he wrote.

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Spoiler alert! USF students will know what transpires in the first episode of Game of Thrones’ fifth season before almost everyone else.

The pre-screening will be held March 31 in the Marshall Student Center Oval Theater, almost two weeks before the episode premieres April 12 on HBO. Fans who are faculty and staff will have to cover their ears to avoid spoilers, however, as the screening is only open to students.

Though the episode will not screen until 8 p.m., doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Renee Hunt, director of communications and marketing for Student Affairs, said she expects a crowd and students should arrive early to get a better chance at one of the 700 seats.

Students are also encouraged to cosplay as characters from the show. Hunt said there’s also a possibility of a costume contest involving prizes or giveaways.

The screening is brought to students by USF Housing and Residential Education. The university, which has partnered previously with HBO to provide HBO GO to students who live on campus, is a stop on HBO’s college tour.

Students who live on campus interested in catching up with the series — renowned for its complex political struggles playing out in a fantasy world of dragons and snow zombies — can watch all the episodes on hbogo.com.

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According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than 16 million Americans fell victim to identity theft in 2012, accounting for nearly $25 billion lost in individual wealth. The average incident ends up costing almost $5,000 and can happen anywhere a credit or debit card purchase is made.

Bertrand and Mangold said they wanted to ensure students avoid falling into the same trap and understand how important being financially inept is in modern cybersociety, citing that nearly half of the fraud happens during online transactions.

Hacker tricks like pharming, which installs malware to redirect traffic from legitimate websites to fake websites that steal sensitive financial information, continue to grow in popularity.

Public wireless networks are at high risk of exposure to hackers who can override network protocol and view recordable details by anybody over that connection.

A trick called “Wi-Fi sniffing” is also trending. It involves hackers who make their own network that looks like a busy public net-

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work, such as a Starbucks hotspot.

Choosing the disguised network puts valuable information at risk, such as social security and bank or credit card account numbers.

One major tip from Bull2Bull is creating separate, complex passwords for each online account in one’s name. Bertrand said she is a strong advocate of this idea, especially when paying online bills.

“A lot of people have a bank of three or four passwords they use on all of their websites,” she said. “Students need to make sure they’re using secure information to maintain their privacy.”

Though using an obvious password, such as a birthday or “password,” is discouraged, the length of the password is the most important than how hard it is to guess.

To crack passwords, most hackers use brute-force attacks, which is a program that guesses combinations of passwords until it gets the right one. According to Intel Security, a four-figure password takes .00001 seconds to guess, while a 12-figure password takes over 4 million years to guess.

Identity theft also occurs through more personal tricks like phishing, which focuses on gaining someone’s trust before taking their identity in an indirect manner,

such as filling out billing information for them.

Some students assume that since some of their purchases are made in person rather than over the phone or Internet, there is nothing to worry about. However, the seminar referenced a case from just last month, in which Anthony James David was arrested in nearby Spring Hill under the suspicion of swiping a couple’s credit cards to access their personal details. David allegedly stole more than $3,000 from his new friends and quickly tried to cover his tracks.

Bertrand and Mangold said Florida currently has the most identity theft cases per 100,000 members of the population.

Bull2Bull is hosting more free seminars, such as an event on March 24 and April 1 on loan repayments, as well as a seminar on March 31 and April 2 that shares advice on ensuring fiscal stability before entering the workforce. More events can be found at usf.edu/financial-education.

“Students must realize the importance of learning this information,” Mangold said. “Classes count on paper, but these lessons will be used far beyond the classroom.”

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done while the website was open was for Andy (Rodriguez) and Mike (Malanga), as is shown in the video.”

Sinan added his friend was registered to vote in the College of the Arts, while Sinan was a candidate in a different college, making it impossible for him to have the student in the video vote for him. Sinan wrote that the grievance is thus “irrelevant.”

Aziz’s statement also alleged that Sinan acted in a similar manner for votes outside Cooper Hall the Monday prior, saying he “harassed voters and slandered other Senate candidates.”

“In other instances, Mr. Sinan has used his personal phone to make people vote on it if they had no laptop or phone of their own. Mr. Sinan has taken the freedom away from (an) individual to choose who they want to vote for,” Aziz also wrote in his statement.

Sinan wrote that if a student didn’t want to vote, he would then immediately leave.

He added that Aziz’s accusations of slander are unsubstantiated and denies harassing voters, stating he was only campaigning.

“Part of campaigning entails that I ask people to vote for me, and that I direct people to the voting website,” Sinan wrote in his statement to the court. “This does not exclude the voting student’s own electronics. If the voter had no such electronics but exhibited a desire to vote, I loaned them my phone so they could use it to access the voting website.”

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In another part of his statement, in which he responds to Hall’s statement, Sinan wrote “as the ERC’s polling station locations were very unpredictable during this election season, I did not feel comfortable directing students to a booth which may or may not even be set up … as far as I know, the upper floors of the library are not areas where campaigning is not allowed.”

In her statement, Hall wrote she allegedly saw Sinan with another newly elected senator, Alaeldean Elmunaier, on various floors of the Library on the morning of Feb. 19 urging students to vote for them on their personal phones and laptops.

Though he acknowledges campaigning on the floors of the Library and even bringing students coffee, he said he tried to be as quiet as he could.

Despite including in his statement that he showed students where to vote on their computers, approached students in the Library and outside Cooper Hall, and even offered students to vote on his phone, Sinan wrote he does not believe he is guilty of conducting a mobile polling station.

“I did not ask/force/mention that any student reveal to me their login information and I did not log in with any ID’s except my own,” he wrote.

“I do not believe this counts as condoning, authorizing or sponsoring mobile polling stations.”

Sinan declined further comments to The Oracle, stating all his opinions are in the statements submitted to the court and he will share the same views at today’s trial, which is scheduled for 3:45 p.m.

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the most prosperous for the aspiring recruit. For the second year in a row, the team won its regional championship and began a run for the state title.

After reaching the final four, Williams fell short to Southwest Atlanta Christian High School, which featured current USF teammate, Shavontae Naylor.

Williams owes a lot of her early college success to the guidance of her mom as a former player. Michele took her daughter around the southeast to attend camps and clinics before National Signing Day

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finally arrived.

The two offer letters in front of Williams were from Auburn and USF. “As soon as coach Fernandez offered me a spot, my mom told me that’s where I needed to go,” Williams said. “I’m glad I came here now, but at the time I left the decision up to her.”

With Tampa only four hours from her home in Georgia, Michele and the rest of Williams’ family travels back and forth to see their newest star hit the court for almost every home game.

After putting on the green and gold, the 5-foot-8 guard realized she had fallen right

back into the same pattern she experienced with the traveling teams in her sophomore year of high school. Although she had made the roster, Fernandez had her playing off the bench in her freshman year.

“I worked my way up to the sixth man but I still wasn’t satisfied,” Williams said “I felt like I deserved to be doing more for the team.”

Williams recalls several times when she called her mom upset that she was not getting the playing time she felt she deserved.

One night Michele finally said to her daughter, “Courtney, you’ve got to stay in there and show them you can play ball.”

Williams realized that the minutes wouldn’t be handed to her.

Halfway through her sophomore year, Williams finally felt that USF was her home, and the coaches’ faith in her play she desperately wanted had finally been bestowed.

Now in her junior year, Williams has emerged as one of the country’s best guards and sharpest shooters. Averaging over 20 points a game in 33 minutes of work and receiving a second-consecutive honor as a first-team All AAC player, the guard has shown her coaching staff that taking a chance on her was the right call.

As a product of Williams’

stellar season, USF (26-7, 15-3) will await its seeding in the upcoming NCAA Tournament, which will be revealed during the NCAA Selection Show on Monday. The show will begin at 7 p.m. on ESPNU. Michele currently works as a social worker in Charlton County, assisting elderly patients when she’s not making the trek back and forth from South Florida.

“My mom is everything. I do what I do for her,” Williams said. “I always tell myself that when I’m done reaching my goals I want to make sure she doesn’t have to work anymore, and that’s still my ultimate motivation.”

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Film screening event calls for education equality, end to persecution

Tonight at 7 in the Patel Center, there will be a screening of the documentary “To Light a Candle” to support education equality for all. PHOTO PROVIDED BY “EDUCATION IS NOT A CRIME” CAMPAIGN

By Zach Leete S T A F F

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Because the majority of the free world prides itself on providing education to a diverse array of people regardless of religious beliefs or nationality, it may come as a surprise to USF students that in Iran, the country’s largest religious minority has been stripped of its right to an education.

“To Light a Candle” documents the story of the Baha’is, who have resorted to teaching themselves via a series of covert classrooms installed in homes, through the mail and by using online lectures in response to state-sponsored repression.

The film, directed by IranianCanadian journalist Maziar Bahari, will be shown tonight at 7 in the Dr. Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions.

The film screening coincides with the launch of the international “Education is Not a Crime” campaign.

“An attack on education somewhere is an attack on education everywhere,” said John Pilz, a USF senior majoring in environmental science and policy. “Education is not

a crime. Education is a human right.”

Pilz helped organize the event after watching the documentary. He collaborated with USF World and student organizations to hold the screening.

“People are being denied fundamental human rights,” Pilz said. “Maziar Bahari was inspired to make a movie and put it on the Internet. When I watched the trailer, I really was inspired to do something of my own at university, so I said to myself, ‘I have the time so why not?’”

The film neatly corresponds to the mission set by the “Education is Not a Crime” campaign, which is being endorsed by several renowned scholars and prominent figures, including anti-apartheid activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

The Islamic Revolution of 1979 altered the lives of Iranian Baha’i citizens by forbidding them from pursuing an education or teaching in a university setting. In response, the community established the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) in 1987.

BIHE works to achieve equality in education and eradicate the threat of the violent oppo-

sition that has forced them to pursue education in secret. If an unapproved classroom is discovered, the teachers and students can be arrested.

Sepideh Eskandari, a Baha’i lawyer born in Iran, will serve on a panel of experts to answer questions after the screening.

Eskandari was able to acquire an education without persecution in the U.S. She blames the “sheer ignorance” of the Iranian government for the plight faced by the Baha’is.

Today, a passion for education and humanity is what drives the Baha’is to continue schooling themselves in secrecy. Eskandari said the Baha’is have no interest in interfering with the religion of others.

“Our perpetual religion is to service the world of humanity, regardless of nationality or religious background,” she said. “That shouldn’t even be an issue. Our purpose in the world is to support one another.”

Parts of the film had to be smuggled out of Iran to reach the public eye. Although the film focuses on the challenges facing the Baha’is, its message is universal in scope: education is a fundamental right.

“We are here pulling for

an education, something that we know to be a right given to us,” Pilz said. “Some are here because of family, others because of work, but we all hold the common right to an education.”

A selection from the writings of Abdu’l-Baha, the eldest son of Baha’i founder Baha’u’llah, states, “If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.”

Eskandari said she hopes the future of Baha’i students will be a free one.

“Let’s hope that the Iranian Baha’i students, getting an illegal education, can receive amnesty from wonderful institutions like USF,” she said.

“Let’s hope they can be welcomed to apply to be educated where they are more than welcome to study.”

Eskandari also anticipates the film will alert USF students to the injustices faced by the Baha’is on a daily basis — an injustice fueled by a hate the Baha’is refuse to reciprocate.

“It’s none of my business, someone else’s salvation,” she said. “It’s not my business to focus on other people and forget my own salvation.”

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bunts, which extended the lead to three.

The Bulls’ defense was anchored by redshirt freshman Susan Wysocki who pitched five innings giving up no earned runs on four hits with six strikeouts.

“We play a lot of games in a short period of time, and for Susan to give us the quality innings that she has been (is) tremendous,” Eriksen said.

USF had a quick turnaround, but didn’t let it affect its focus as it defeated Maine 8-2.

With a three-run shot over the right-field wall, Spivey put the Bulls on the board in the first inning, bringing her RBI total to a team-high 30.

With her 19th homer, Spivey is now tied for eighth on USF’s all-time homer list

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with Carmela Liwag, now an assistant coach of the team.

It didn’t take long for USF to add to its lead, as sophomore Ta’coia Williams brought the crowd to its feet two pitches later with a solo bomb over left field — clearing the batting facility — to jump out to a 4-0 lead.

“Anytime you can put threats like that in the middle of the lineup, once you get through the first three batters, now it shows we have some other dangerous hitters,” Eriksen said.

USF is now 9-2 this season when hitting a homer and 16-1 when out-hitting its opponents. USF out-hit Maine 14-3.

USF looks to continue its hot streak Thursday in another doubleheader, with games against Lehigh and Georgetown starting at 5 p.m.

Valdes looks to lead Bulls in Daytona

By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S

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The USF baseball team is coming off its first sweep of the season and will have an opportunity to extend the streak to four games when it travels to Daytona to play Bethune-Cookman, which has won only three games.

Despite losing 12 of its first 13 games, Bethune-Cookman (4-13) took two of three in its most recent series against North Carolina Central.

Junior pitcher Ryan Valdes, who is in his first year with the team, will start for USF (9-6-1) when the teams play at 6 tonight.

Valdes played his first two years of collegiate baseball at State College of Florida in Sarasota. The right-hander has appeared in seven games for the Bulls, posting a 1.88 ERA in 14 1/3 innings.

He has started two games so far, giving up two runs on five hits in five innings at No. 19 Florida State in his most recent start March 4.

He exited the game with a lead, but the bullpen could not hold it, and the Bulls lost 7-3.

Valdes will be backed up by the

Pitcher Ryan Valdes has kept his ERA under two through seven appearances in his first season with USF. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/SEBASTIAN CONTENTO

two hitters at the top of the Bulls’ lineup, freshman Kevin Merrell and junior Kyle Teaf. As the first and second batters in the lineup, the two lead the team in batting average, with Merrell batting .292 and Teaf hitting .273.

Teaf has been on a recent tear, batting .389 over the last five games. The shortstop is also on a 15-game on-base streak.

The Wildcats have struggled on the mound, with a team ERA of

5.41, but have had success at the plate. Five players are batting over .290 and have accounted for 45.5 percent of the team’s hits.

Sophomore Zach Olszewski and junior Nathan Bond lead BethuneCookman’s offense, batting .367 and .333, respectively.

Following the one-game series, USF will return for a five-game home stand, which will begin with a three-game series against FAMU on Friday at 6:30 p.m.

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How Yik Yak and Sneek are crumbling social media

Adam Mathieu COLU M N I ST

Cyberbullying on Facebook is becoming a thing of the past, so much so that apps now grant people the chance to post anonymous messages for the whole neighborhood to see.

As stated in a November issue of The Oracle, 11 to 15 percent of USF students post to Yik Yak, the anonymous social media app that pulls in posts from within a few miles of the user and allows students to communicate without actually needing to see each other.

Unsurprisingly, Yik Yak’s anonymous posters take advantage of being faceless, and they post less than appealing messages, personalized with a USF twist.

Recent unsavory posts include, “University of Sexy Females,” “Nothing brings all the races together like hating on Greek life” and of course the occasional

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person seeking a hookup.

However, USF’s are not on par with the Yaks that recently gained the attention of the New York Times. One Eastern Michigan University professor threatened legal action after seeing abusive posts about herself that were made during her lecture.

And therein lies the problem — anonymity grants people the ability to post any asinine or offensive comment they desire without the nasty aftertaste of facing the consequences.

If Yik Yak seems too dull, there is now Sneek — the Instagram to Yik Yak’s Twitter — where local users post photos without a known identity.

USF’s Sneek includes photos of legs, butts, marijuana and dogs.

The most “up-voted” posts are usually those of a girl’s breasts or butt, most of which include crude comments from unknown users who speak perhaps more bluntly than they would in person.

While it is not surprising to read some comments made on nude selfies, the real harsh comments come from posts made when users are supposedly drunk or trying to be personal.

For instance, one local user posted a picture of herself with her baby that said, “Being a mom is such a gift.” Some commenters harassed the mother about how

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What you said Opinion Editor Isabelle Cavazos went to social apps Yik Yak and Sneek to take screenshots of what USF students are posting anonymously. These apps are free to download for both Android and iOS and require no login information to see what people are posting nearby.

Adam Mathieu is a junior majoring in studio art.

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she holds her baby, and when her location became an issue, one user mentioned how she “can’t be in El Salvador, she’s wearing a bra.”

While these apps are certainly a case of “if you don’t like it, don’t use it,” that doesn’t acknowledge that feeds are always growing and people are still posting rude things about fellow students.

Building apps on anonymity should not become a trend. The Internet is cruel enough as it is.

And with Yik Yak, at least the worries stop at the original post.

Sneek could be evidence enough to really hurt someone. USF students could be seeing nude selfies of someone under 18, or perhaps an alcohol-inspired post could get screenshot and appear on another site.

Nobody needs to recognize their friend’s bathroom after seeing that tattoo that was always hidden from sunlight.

While the same problems may happen on Twitter and Facebook, there are at least privacy settings and the knowledge that your family and friends will see everything that gets posted. Yik Yak and Sneek are trying to act as the next step of social media, but it is one that should not be taken.

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To star guard, mom knows best

By Zach Lowie S T A F F

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Throughout USF women’s basketball’s current historic season, many players have stepped up as leaders for stretches of games at a time. The Bulls’ consistent hot hand and facilitator, however, has undoubtedly been junior guard Courtney Williams.

Williams went to high school at Charlton County High School in Folkston, Georgia. With her talent shining in youth leagues from a young age, Williams knew early on that basketball was what she wanted to pursue.

Her freshman year of high school went by smoothly and resulted in a winning season and new teammates forging closer bonds with the up-andcoming talent.

Williams had no idea that the start of her sophomore year might change her life’s course entirely. After defending her cousin in a fight, she was suspended from school for a year.

“I wasn’t thinking about bas-

ketball, I just wanted her to be safe,” Williams said. “When the police came my first thought was, ‘My mom is going to kill me.’”

Most athletes might reconsider their careers after missing an entire season of play. Michele Williams, Courtney’s mom, had a different idea. Williams was put on several travel teams over the next 12 months to maintain her eligibility for her junior year while finishing classes at an alternative school.

“Just being able to play during that time was good,” Williams said. “I kept getting better and made sure to make the most of each opportunity that presented itself.”

Despite her impressive skills, Williams found that getting playing time on these teams proved more difficult than expected. Looking for a way to get into the national spotlight, she finally stuck with a single team that promised her a starting role right away, coached

by Kenny Kallina from Florida Girl’s Basketball. This youth

league also featured Williams’ now-teammates Alisia Jenkins and Shavontae Naylor that same season.

“Without Kenny, I probably wouldn’t even be at USF right now,” Williams said. “He’s the one that contacted the university’s staff and told them to take a look at me in their recruiting process.”

After her suspension ended, Williams returned to Charlton County High for her junior year.

She said the transition back onto the team was not as difficult as she expected. The team already knew she was talented so the she no longer had to prove her worth. Williams could finally focus on just playing to win.

That year she helped lead the Indians to their first regional title since 1988, only the second time in school history. The first time the trophy was hoisted hit close to home for Williams — literally — as her mother was the one celebrating 22 years earlier.

In her playing days, Michele

Junior guard Courtney Williams, who averaged just over 20 points per game this season, is ready to return to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since her freshman season.

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secured the Charlton County High single-game scoring record with 40 points as a power forward. Courtney leapfrogged her mother for the coveted accolade not long into her junior season, with 42.

“After that, I told her, ‘Mom, you know you’re not better than me,’” Williams said jokingly.

“She finally admits that now.”

Williams’ final season in an Indian uniform proved to be

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Softball

Humbled Eriksen eclipses 800 wins

By Jacob Hoag A S S T .

Coach Ken Eriksen has an 801-407-1 record in 18 seasons with USF. He notched his 800th win in a 6-1 win over Yale.

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There won’t be any champagne, confetti or cheers at the Eriksen household tonight — not because the Bulls lost, but because even with surpassing the 800-win mark, for softball coach Ken Eriksen, “life goes on.”

Eriksen has been the face of USF softball for the past 18 seasons and has taken the team to 11 NCAA tournaments.

After a 6-1 victory over Yale on Tuesday night, Eriksen became just the 22nd active coach to eclipse the 800-win milestone.

“I’m going to go home, clean the dishes, take the garbage

out and clean whatever the dog made a mess of,” Eriksen said of his plans Tuesday night.

“As for the 800, it’s just part of the journey.”

Although he may try and hide it, the milestone means a lot to the USF legend — just ask junior catcher Lee Ann Spivey.

“He’s one of the most humble people you’ll ever meet and he’ll never recognize something like that, but as a team, we definitely recognize it as a huge accomplishment and everyone should be proud of it,” she said.

Eriksen has led USF to an 801-407-1 record in his tenure, including a 50-14 record

in 2012 that culminated in the programs’ first Women’s College World Series appearance.

His leadership and strategy led USF to two wins Tuesday, extending their win streak to 11.

USF got its offense rolling in the first game of the doubleheader and scored four consecutive runs in the fourth to take a 4-0 lead.

Freshman Astin Donovan scored first off a bunt by senior D’Anna Devine and a Yale throwing error. Sophomore Kristen Wyckoff and senior Lee Ann Spivey followed suit with two runs off sacrifice

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