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SG court hears why election ‘should never have happened’

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As this year’s Student Government (SG) winds down, senators are rushing to tie loose ends that must be addressed before the chamber doors close until the summer term. *** Nick Russo, a student in the Muma College of Business and previous senate candidate, stood in front of the three SG Supreme Court Justices on Thursday night

to plead his case.

“May it please the court and opposing council, we are here today to discuss an election that should never have happened,” Russo said.

His grievance, filed April 6, was brought against the Election Rules Commission (ERC). The grievance stated Russo’s rights were violated by the ERC when an expedited election was conducted and Russo lost the seat in senate, which he previously won in the general election.

The expedited election was

held last month because the eligible candidates were misrepresented on the original ballot, specifically Joshua Smith who ran for a seat from the Muma College of Business. Smith was on the ballot of the College of Arts and Sciences for six hours on the first day of voting.

Smith should have been on the ballot for the Muma College of Business. When applying for candidacy, he had applied to run for the Muma College of Business.

The ERC stated the election

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New funds considered for campus police

By Allison Leslie C O R R E S P O N D E N T

Last month, the Florida Board of Governors heard from university police and counselors about ways to expand campus police funding for the state’s 12 public universities.

Campus security activity has increased with all campusrelated criminal activities in recent years, according to a statement to The Oracle from Jon Rodgers, director of academic and student affairs for the State University System.

The campus-related criminal activity ranged from public dis-

turbances to weapon offenses.

While he said Tampa’s campus is as safe as ever, USF University Police (UP) Assistant Chief Chris Daniel said USF is starting to see a more specific

“It would allow us to provide greater and deeper service to the community.”

Chris Daniel USF University Police Assistant Chief

type of crime.

“Traditionally the property crimes have been something

that have played on campuses for years,” he said. “But as time goes on and our campus becomes more compressed with the living conditions (and) the student enrollment, we find that we are having more person crimes, conflict between roommates and conflict between boyfriend (and) girlfriend … we have not really had a problem with in the past.”

In a 2012 survey by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, 92 percent of campuses were using sworn officers and 75 percent of campuses were using armed officers.

“Obviously everybody in the

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For the second time in USF history, the student member of the USF Board of Trustees (BOT) has been chosen from a campus other than Tampa.

USF St. Pete student body president-elect Jozef Gherman was elected to the position Friday by a board of Student Government (SG) members from the university’s three campuses.

Ever since the BOT was established, a student body president has been an appointed member and brings the voice of the students to the highest level of administration.

Until recent years, that student voice has traditionally come from the Tampa campus.

In 2012, then-student body president Brian Goff sought to make the selection process fair for the whole USF System by creating a voting body to decide who the member should be. The student body presidents from all three campuses signed the memorandum.

In the document, procedures were established for voting, and it was decided that each campus would have a certain number of voting members on a board to elect the trustee.

“Each campus is allotted three standing positions: they have the current student body president, the student body president elect and the senate president,” SG Attorney General Alex Johnson said. “In addition to that, every 10,000 students a campus has, they

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was held to protect constitutional due process by the implementation of this second election.

Since Smith was left off the ballot, the ERC reasoned, he was not allowed due process in the first election.

According to Russo’s brief, the ERC improperly interpreted its statutes to create an illicit election. Statutes state an expedited election is required in the event that a “Supreme Court ruling or other circumstances result in an election needing to be rescheduled.”

Throughout the trial, Russo reemphasized the impropriety of the election on the basis that the term “rescheduled” does not apply to events that have already happened, rather to those that have not occurred.

“The definition … does not state by what circumstances an election needs to be rescheduled for,” said SG Attorney General Alex Johnson in response to Russo’s argument. “The definition is not restrictive in the nature that the petitioner interprets, as no statute indicates exactly when an expedited election may be

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get an additional seat. You can have up to six seats total.”

The agreement was necessary because USF’s branch campuses are each separately accredited.

“By state law, normally the student body president automatically gets on the Board of Trustees,” Johnson said.

Therefore, the memorandum set forth by Goff dictated that, once a year, before the end of April, the voting members of the selection body would meet to vote for the candidate.

The year after the agreement was signed into action, the student body president from the St. Pete campus, Mark Lombardi-Nelson, was selected to sit on the board, rather than Tampa’s candidate, then-student body president William Warmke.

“Some people will say that Tampa has a large advantage because we have more seats,”

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held, other than by court ruling or if the (ERC) supervisor chooses to conduct one.”

On Feb. 23, the SG Supreme Court authorized the expedited election and stated the ERC was at fault for leaving Smith off the ballot.

However, Johnson said Smith, a current SG senator occupying an at-large seat, might not even be eligible for a seat in the Senate because of continually getting points against his record.

To be pointed out of the Senate is to receive 10 or more points from the Senate Executive Committee, according to Senate Rules of Procedure. Points are given for tardiness, absence and failure to vote on at least 75 percent of legislation during each meeting.

According to statutes, “any senator removed from the Senate for being pointed out may not be eligible to run for or hold a Senate seat for one calendar year after being pointed out.”

In addition to his concern for the election’s definition, Russo brought up the change in dynamics between the general and expedited election.

“Candidates who amassed hundreds of votes during the general election saw their vote count

drop into the double digits,” he said.

The justices presented this point to Johnson, but he maintained it was up to the candidates to encourage voter turnout.

According to Johnson, despite the existence of only a single unmanned voting station at the MSC during the expedited election, candidates were responsible for earning the same number of votes.

Near the end of the trial, one justice asked about the practicality of the trial.

“Why were we allowing a second election to occur if somebody who is no longer eligible for the Senate is allowed to run?” said Associate Justice Richard LaMura, questioning the value of defending someone’s due process if they are not owed due process.

In other words, if Smith cannot run, a second election would not benefit him at all.

The court is still deliberating the case with a decision expected early this week.

In face of grievance, elected senator steps down: Another highly contested Muma College of Business seat in the SG senate race has opened up. Anika Hasan won her seat in the expedited election, but a

grievance against her campaign was filed soon after.

Hasan had sent a campaign message to members of a class, citing her leadership roles on campus — including her position as a teaching assistant.

Before the case went to trial, Hasan backed out of the senate position, which left another Senate seat available.

Acting Chief Justice denied position, resigns: As the SG Supreme Court met Thursday to hear Russo’s case, the acting chief justice, Daniel Shapiro, was missing from the court.

Following Tuesday’s Senate meeting, in which senators voted against confirming Shapiro as next semester’s chief justice, a member of SG’s advising, training and operations office said Shapiro stepped down from his position.

Many questioned Shapiro’s ethics at Tuesday’s meeting. The discussion particularly revolved around Shapiro knowingly breaking the rules by electing a ranking chief justice. Positions cannot be elected when there are not five justices on the court and, at the time, there were only four sitting members.

When confronted over the broken rule, according to a text

message typed by Senator Corey Ulloa, Shapiro said “the court could break rules if it feels necessary” and the Judicial Review Panel was “more of a joke anyways.”

As to why it may be sometimes acceptable to bend the rules, Shapiro defended himself at Tuesday’s Senate and cited Abraham Lincoln as a leader who rose above the law during the Civil War in order to protect the greater rights of citizens.

Second shot at concealed carry resolution: SG Senate will once again vote Tuesday on whether to send a resolution regarding concealed carry to state leaders. There is currently a bill (SB 176 and HB 4005) in the Florida Senate and House of Representatives that would allow concealed carry of firearms on public university campuses.

The resolution was tabled at last week’s SG meeting to amend what many senators saw as an emotional proclamation against concealed carry. Instead, the amended version presents the results of a survey that gathered student opinion on the issue — absent of any opinion given on behalf of the students.

— Additional reporting by ­ Wesley Higgins

Johnson said. “But at the end of the day, just because you’re a Tampa student, doesn’t mean you’ll necessarily vote for Tampa. So all of the presidents have an equal chance, if

been anyone, as none of the other branch presidents had revealed their intention to run.

“It’s up for grabs, and I think that whoever decides to want to run to be the trustee

is directly representative of the student body.”

In Cocco’s tenure as trustee, he served on the Academics and Campus Environment work group. He was able to share his voice about the concealed carry issue, as well as campus life and mental health.

Cocco said he took a very forward position on the board, once he had gotten into his niche.

Though Andy Rodriguez, USF Tampa SG’s presidentelect, was not selected as the trustee, that does not mean the Tampa campus will go unheard, as the current trustee emphasized he is often in contact with other student body presidents.

The news of Gherman’s election did not rest easy with Rodriguez, especially since the vote was 5-7.

“I’m really upset because I genuinely believe that I had a great opportunity, and I really could have represented the students of the system well,” Rodriguez said. “Unfortunately for Tampa, one of the vot-

ing members has had hard feelings against me all year … the other two campuses were teaming up, because the reality is that Tampa gets as many votes as both of them combined.

“It was just an unfortunate event that had nothing to do with merit, but it is what it is.

I’m going to move forward, I’m going to do my job as the student body president to the best of my ability. And I’m not going to let this slow me down in any way, shape or form.”

“It’s up for grabs, and I think that whoever decides to want to run to be the trustee needs to be prepared.

They need to have a great presentation, and really need to prove and show that they understand the position of a trustee and that they understand that this position is directly representative of the student body.”

Jean Cocco Current BOT member, student body president

they choose to run.”

Current student body president Jean Cocco ran unopposed last year when he was up for the seat on the board.

Regarding this year’s selection, he felt it could have

needs to be prepared,” Cocco said. “They need to have a great presentation, and really need to prove and show that they understand the position of a trustee and that they understand that this position

CORRECTION

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university environment wants more if they can get it,” Daniel said. “Our role is to provide a safe community for people to study, work, have some recreation, and proper funding also allows us to take those measures to provide a very secure environment.”

According to a Tampa Tribune article, USF spends roughly $4 million a year for UP and public safety. USF’s Tampa campus has 50 sworn officers, 52 at full force and 16 civilian employees, which makes its officer-to-student ratio 1 to 834.

“It’s quite clear that we provide a safe and secure learning environment at the University of South Florida. It’s been our No. 1 commitment since day one,” said USF Provost Ralph Wilcox to the Tribune. “If we can’t provide that kind of safety and security to our students, faculty and staff, everything else pales in comparison.”

The International Association of Chiefs of Police has a standard of two offi-

cers per 1,000 students, which breaks down to one officer per 500 students. The University of Florida has the largest university police force in the state with 89 sworn officers.

“I understand that it can be costly to hit that mark deadon, but whatever we can do to minimize those variances would be helpful,” Daniel said.

“Depending on the circumstances (and) the environment, each individual campus would have its own ratio that fit.”

Rodgers said he cautioned against using the police-to-population ratios as a “basis for agency staffing decisions.” “(Decisions are based on) factors such as university mission, campus location, student clientele, additional off-site facilities,” he said.

“Administrative enforcement expectations may increase or decrease the need for police officers.”

With USF reporting six sexual assault cases, seven domestic violence cases and two aggravated assaults in 2013, advocates for more funding are afraid the numbers may increase as more students enroll and the campus becomes

a more compressed community. Extra funding to campus police would not only fund more officers, but also equip them with more resources.

“We would probably have to look at our internal operation and ensure we are being efficient, and we’re doing that anyways,” Daniel said. “There’s efficiency and there’s creating opportunity through funding.

We would probably take some of those positions that we have sworn law enforcement in and supervisory response right now, put them back out on the streets and hire civilians to do a similar job inside the office.”

The amount of funding, where it will come from and when it will be given is still undecided. There is a little talk in the state Legislature and governor’s office of a new tax.

“It would allow us to provide greater and deeper service to the community,” Daniel said.

“We also understand the fiscal responsibilities the university is under and they have done well for it, the university has done well whenever they could to help resource us better and help us get to the point we need to be.”

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USF alumnus explores Vietnam, lessons learned with memoir

By Ariana Matos L I F E S T Y L E

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April 29 marks the 40th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, the moment in history when an exhausted U.S. accepted the imminent failure of the war in Vietnam and pulled troops out of the sick and sullied country. This anniversary coincides with the publishing of author and USF alumnus Jim Lamb’s book, “Orange Socks & Other Colorful Tales,” a collection of stories surrounding his sevenmonth exploration of self and life during the Vietnam War. Lamb avoided the draft and joined the military in 1971 in Pennsylvania. While he had a penchant for “sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll,” Lamb was a new husband and soon-to-be father with bills that needed paying.

“The draft board had set up districts, and because I was in another district, I had another 30 days to renew. I thought I’d rather go in the Navy, which was a two-year commitment,” Lamb said. “I liked their uniforms better, and when you’re 20-something those things are important. The Navy also had better education programs.”

His general knowledge betrayed his test-taking skills and soon he was assigned to troubleshoot radios. Though he never actually fixed any.

“I was a very good troubleshooter, but I was terrible at fixing things because I lacked the coordination,” he said.

After training in Memphis at the same time of the assassination of Martin Luther King

Until one day, three and a Jr. and traveling the world, ‘You got to write these down.’

Lamb was eventually put on I thought, ‘Who cares?’ But he half years in, Lamb witnessed something he’d never forget. rotation between Da Nang, kept bugging me.”

“I’m getting ready for After years of procrastiVietnam, and his base in Atsugi, Japan, working with nating and doubting himself, inspection and I see a guy Lamb started compiling his in his laundry and he’s takintelligence operations. ing things out so carefully,” “Our place had no guns or wisdom.

“I decided 10 years ago I Lamb said. “He had a pair of armor. They just made tapes of people speaking Russian,” was going to carry this little shoes he only used for inspeche said. “They would fly back book around with me and tions, he had a belt buckle he only used for and we would listen to these “I’d write down one to eight words inspections, he had he only used tapes.” to remember it. It’s like capturing aforhatinspections and Lamb said I said, ‘What’s all upon returning butterflies.

Then I’d go back and that stuff?’ and he home, the recepsaid, ‘Well, that’s tion he got from type it out and make notes. my inspection some people was After a while it was like, these are gear.’ So I thought, not what he was ‘Well why didn’t I expecting.

At cute little stories, but there is get the memo?” church, he met Lamb said that a couple that no beginning, middle or end.” was the moment he expressed its feelwas transformed. ings on the war.

Jim Lamb “We had a huge “They were Author of “Orange Socks & Other Colorful Tales” inspection in the throwing things in my face — literally,” he anytime I remembered a hangar the next week and said. “I remember going to a moment, I’d write down one whoever the admiral or comchurch in Pennsylvania and to eight words to remember mander was came in. We a husband and wife said to it. It’s like capturing butter- had sailors lined up on one me afterward, ‘Why are you flies,” he said. “Then I’d go side. The middle was open over there killing babies?’ I back and type it out and make for planes, and sailors on the said, ‘What? I’m working on notes. After a while it was like, other side,” he said. “So this radios.’ And they said it’s the these are cute little stories, guy comes in with his entoubut there is no beginning, rage and they look you up and same thing. Well it’s not” down and up and down.”

Lamb has always been a middle or end.”

Lamb’s favorite story from Lamb said it is embarrassstoryteller, and 30 years after the fact, he was encouraged the war and the namesake for ing his favorite story involves by some bandmates to write “Orange Socks” centers on a prank. his difficulty assimilating into “I was wearing orange his stories down. socks because I’d never seen “For seven years in Sarasota daily Navy life.

Inspection for Lamb was an inspection where they I played bass (in a band with Sam Harris) … the keyboard never easy. He would get checked your socks. So, imagplayer was his wife. We would some of the components ine this entourage going by sit down to fix something, and right, but the next week his me, and I pull up my pant it would remind me of a funny shoes wouldn’t be polished leg so that the other guys story and I would tell him and enough or his belt buckle (across the hangar) could see my socks,” he said. “I held everyone would laugh. A cou- would be dull.

“It was like a Rubik’s Cube. it up for several seconds and ple weeks would go by and I’d tell another story and they’d I couldn’t get all the pieces to all you could hear were the guys on the other end of the laugh,” he said. “Sam said, fit,” he said.

hangar laughing and it carried with the echo.”

“So the entire entourage stopped, and I’m sitting there like the cat who ate the canary. By the time they started checking out where the laughter was coming from I had left the hangar,” he said.

Lamb said that is his favorite story because it reflects how far he has grown in his life and that his sense of humor was not lost during the war. The short stories also help him understand the most important things he learned from Vietnam. “(What) I learned in boot camp is, hurry up and wait,” he said. “That’s kind of what life is like. I didn’t understand that when I was young. You say, ‘God, I want patience and I want it now.’”

Lamb also wants young people to know that individuality is important, but conforming is not always a bad thing.

“You can conform to be part of a team and still maintain enough of your identity that you don’t lose yourself,” he said. “What I learned from the Navy was you will meet the smartest and best people of your life in the military and you will meet some of the dumbest and most rotten people in your life in the military. From the outside they all look the same, but it’s getting to know the person inside the uniform that really makes life interesting.”

Lamb’s book can be found on his website, jslstories.com, along with links for veterans to seek help in all aspects of their life.

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Just as it was an uncharacteristic weekend for USF — allowing 17 runs in two games — it was also an unlikely twowin weekend for the Pirates, who were riding a six-game losing streak into the matchup.

ECU pitcher Lydia Ritchie pitched a complete game Sunday along with five innings Saturday, and earned her first two wins of the season after losing her first six.

“The way we play, you have to play flawless,” Eriksen said.

“You can’t give the other team freebies and that’s the big deal right now.”

The Bulls get a chance to bounce back with a threegame series against Memphis at home Saturday, but for now, Eriksen said the team needs a break.

“It starts with two days off,” Eriksen said. “Get away from the ballpark, get away from the bad mojo and try not to beat yourself up.”

Designated hitter Luke Borders’ momentum from earlier this week carried into the 6-2 win. The sophomore, who went 3-for-3 with a grand slam in Wednesday’s 11-9 win over Stetson, went 3-for-4 with three runs in Game 1.

Casey Mulholland (4-4) tossed the second complete game of his career in Game 2.

The senior surrendered four earned runs over eight innings, while striking out 10 and walking one in the 4-1 loss.

After splitting Friday’s doubleheader, the Bulls outhit the Tigers 14-8, but lost Saturday’s rubber game 6-4.

Right fielder Luke Maglich was consistent in all three games. The junior went 7-for13 (.538) with a home run, two doubles and three RBIs. USF continues its race for the conference as it hosts BethuneCookman on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

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Obama to discuss climate change, Scott’s least favorite phrase

Adam Mathieu COLU M N I ST

President Barack Obama will speak in the Everglades on Wednesday to discuss climate change, a rising concern in Florida that will surely be a 2016 election issue.

When Obama arrives in Florida on Earth Day, he plans to use the Everglades as an example of what the state will lose if serious action is not taken to prevent the effects of humans on the environment.

Hopefully Gov. Rick Scott will be near Obama, as Scott needs to hear how the state is at major risk when it comes to the dangers of global warming.

It may be hard for Obama’s message to go far when the governor has a history of not liking certain key words that may come up in the president’s speech. These touchy words include “climate change” and “global warming,” words that, as reported in the Miami Herald, the Scott administration ordered workers at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)

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Forbidding members of the DEP to say “climate change” is a foolish method to maintain ignorance of an issue that Scott for some reason believes is just too complicated to understand.

Using Scott’s least favorite words might make the governor heat up, but some effort must be made to convince the state that global warming is a serious threat.

This is especially crucial since senior scientist Jane Long of the Environmental Defense Fund told the Tampa Bay Times the Tampa area will be underwater before the century has ended as sea levels rise due to global warming.

In response to his thoughts on global warming, Scott has pulled the “I’m not a scientist” card, according to the Miami Herald, as a way to halt discussing the issue.

Similarly, 2016 hopeful and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio also admitted to not being “a scientist” and doubts that humans have as much of an impact on the planet as is claimed, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

There is another politician who is not a scientist, and that is Obama. However, Obama appears to have done the next best thing and actually spoken with experts.

As reported in the Tampa Bay Times, he and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy have met with public experts and listened when the Pentagon stated the dangers of climate change.

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What you said Editors Isabelle Cavazos and Adam Mathieu asked students their thoughts on North Illinois University offering a new course called “Game of Thrones, Television and Medieval History.”

“If it’s something you want to do, go for it. I think they try to do that with Harry Potter.”

— Nick Concilio, a junior majoring in chemical engineering

“Why not use something people like in order to learn? They’ll pay more attention.” ­— Katelyn Martin, a junior majoring in chemistry

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— Jackie Tejedor, a junior majoring in cell and molecular biology

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Obama is able to get over the challenge of not being a scientist, but two leading Florida politicians fail to hear their constituents understand global warming as a real threat.

The Washington Post dissected an analysis by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, and the results show the tide of public opinion rising in favor of admitting humans have a very real effect on the climate. According to the Yale study, 58 percent of Floridians believe humans have at least some impact on global warming.

With a majority of Floridians acknowledging global warming and humans’ role in the issue, it may be time for Scott and Rubio to stop being doubters and start looking for solutions. The Obama administration has been boasting the country’s growth with wind power and solar energy resources, as reported in the Tampa Bay Times. Even Rubio’s premature presidential race rival, Hillary Clinton, is building a platform that will make clean energy and climate change a top priority.

Floridians can only hope that with more pressure from voters and with Obama’s visit this Earth Day, some of the top Republican politicians in Florida will stop denying and start helping.

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Bulls add to AAC slump USF wins second AAC title

By Jacob Hoag A S S T .

Outside USF Top UCLA recruit Soso Jamabo was arrested early Sunday morning after his high school prom in Kaufman, Texas. Jamabo, the 28th best player in the 2015 freshman class according to ESPN.com, was charged with evading arrest with a vehicle along with ignoring a stop sign, driving without a license, speeding, possession and consumption of alcohol as a minor.

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Baseball Houston (25-14, 6-5) moved into a tie for third with UConn (24-15, 6-5) after sweeping Cincinnati (12-25, 4-7) in a threegame series over the weekend.

Softball Second-place Tulsa (29-15, 8-4) won its only game of the weekend, but lost ground on firstplace UCF (43-6, 14-1), which swept Memphis (14-27, 2-10).

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USF softball coach Ken Eriksen called the weekend humbling as the Bulls dropped two of their three games at home against last-place East Carolina (ECU) over the weekend.

After winning 20-of-21 games heading into conference play, the Bulls have slumped as of late, with a 4-6 record in the AAC and a winning margin of just one run per game.

This weekend’s series was no different, with a one-run win Saturday followed by 10-1 and 7-3 losses.

USF (33-15, 4-6) got on the board first Sunday off an ECU throwing error in the bottom of the fourth, which sent freshman Lauren Evans home from third.

The lead didn’t hold for long as the Pirates (13-35, 5-10) jumped out for four runs in the top of the fifth. Sophomore Kacie Oshiro blasted a two-RBI triple through the gap, followed by a two-RBI double by sophomore Ali Ramirez.

Junior Lee Ann Spivey has accounted for nearly a quarter of USF’s RBIs, as she has knocked in 48 of the Bulls’ 202 runs. ORACLE

PHOTO/JACOB HOAG

Down 7-1, USF would add two runs in the bottom of the seventh off a Lee Ann Spivey double, but failed to push across any more runs.

“You’d like to get someone other than Spivey driving in runs for us,” Eriksen said.

“She’s accounted for maybe 50 percent of our RBIs this season

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Baseball

USF drops series, remains on top

By Tiana Aument C O R R E S P O N D E N T

BASEBALL

Bethune-Cookman (14-29) at USF (2612-1) When: Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.

Where: USF Baseball Stadium TV/Radio: BullsCast/1010 AM

… We have to make sure she’s not doing too much.”

Although not quite 50 percent, the senior catcher has driven in 48 of USF’s 202 runs this season, including a walkoff single in Saturday’s 3-2 win — the lone bright spot of the weekend.

USF men’s tennis claimed its second consecutive AAC championship Sunday when it defeated Tulsa 4-0 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Led by senior Oliver Pramming, who was named the most outstanding player of the tournament, the Bulls clinched the program’s 16th conference championship.

Pramming started the Bulls off on the right foot when he and freshman Justin Roberts won the team’s first point by defeating Tulsa’s No. 1 doubles team 6-3.

The senior finished the match by defeating No. 80 singles player Alejandro Espejo 6-4, 6-3.

USF (21-6) will discover its seeding for the NCAA Championship during the Selection Show on April 28 at 5:30 p.m.

—Staff report

Right fielder Luke Maglich was a consistent offensive threat over the weekend, as he went 7-for-13 with a home run. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU

When the two leading teams in the AAC went head-to-head this weekend in Tennessee, Memphis looked to claim dominance in the conference.

USF looked to maintain it.

The Bulls (26-14-1, 8-4) have ranked first in the standings since conference play began about three weeks ago. USF swept Cincinnati that weekend and went on to take the series against UConn and East Carolina.

This weekend’s series against Memphis (25-12, 7-5) held a different fate for the Bulls.

USF dropped its first con-

ference series and lost two of three to the Tigers.

Still, USF remains atop the AAC standings with 15 games left before the conference tournament.

“It’s like a pennant race in the big leagues,” coach Mark Kingston said. “The last month of the season, (the games are) all important. You have to try and win them all, and keep an eye on the big picture.”

The Bulls took Game 1 of Friday’s doubleheader behind Jimmy Herget (7-1), who allowed one earned run over 7 1/3 innings. The Bulls broke open the game with a four-run sixth inning to give them a final lead.

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