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Silk Shows QuiltsArtist Louise Silk elevates quilt making to an art form, page 4.

Cross Country DefeatedMen’s cross country team breaks eight-year championship streak, page 6.

► S P O R T SLAST MINUTE LOSSNationally-ranked Wabash thwarts Gator comeback Sat-urday.

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► F E AT U R E SCUPCAKE KITCHENElaina infuses cupcakes with warm cinnamon swirls.

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► N E W STIRES-TO-ENERGYStudents and faculty refl ect on and assess the approval of a local tire energy plant.

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Women’s soccer starts playoffs with shutout

S P O R T S Meadville welcomes back Whole Darn

RACHEL GIESEL/THE CAMPUSAllegheny students Mike Young, ’12 and Zach Restelli, ’14 reunite with Whole Darn subs on its opening day Tuesday

Th e Whole Darn Th ing Sub Shop re-opened Tuesday in its new building, nearly nine months aft er an apartment fi re destroyed the business last Febru-ary.

Co-owner Mark Jordan said the fl ow of customers was consistent through-out the day.

“It’s about as busy as I expected and it really hasn’t stopped all day ei-ther,” Jordan said. “It’s been pretty steady.”

Allegheny student Zach Restelli, ’14, said he has been eagerly awaiting the reopen-ing. He attended with Michael Young, ’12.

“Th is is seriously the best sub, like the most amazing food I’ve ever had in my life,” Restelli said. “I’m a Whole Darn Th ing connoisseur. You know, even like eating in places like Pittsburgh and New York –nothing beats this.”

Co-owner Chris Jordan said she was delighted to see a large volume of faithful customers return.

“Everybody seems to be

real happy and pleased with the way it looks and turned out,” Jordan said. “Th at’s been the biggest gratifi cation – just looking and seeing a lot of the majority of the old customers back and new ones that haven’t been here before.”

She added that she liked seeing the Allegheny students come in, and expects more to come soon. Both Restelli and Young said they would be re-turning shortly.

“I’ll be back soon,” Young said. “Tomorrow.”

Whole Darn also created a new Web site that should better accommodate group orders, said Chris Jordan. Customers

By RACHEL GIESELStaff Writergieselr@allegheny.edu

can download menus and or-der forms from the site, which they can then use to fax in their sub orders.

“Th e website has every-thing,” Chris Jordan said. “If [people are] really unfamiliar with us they can just go to that and see what they want to have to make it a little bit easier for everybody in general.”

For more information, visit www.thewholedarnthing.com.

ANDREW CROFFORD/THE CAMPUSJunior Katrina Gazsi contributed to Wednesday’s 3-0 playoff shutout against Wooster. The team scored all of its goals within the fi rst seven minutes of the game. The win came after Saturday’s loss to Ohio Wesleyan, which lost the Gators their No. 1 conference seed. PAGE 6

Th e City of Meadville seeks to schedule a meeting with Allegheny to discuss an increase of the annual gift , two weeks aft er the college presented a two-year gift of $130,000.

“I don’t want to sound ungrateful, because we’re not,” said Christopher Soff , mayor of Meadville. “We don’t have an amount in mind we’re look-ing to receive from the college, and I guess from my perspective it’s some-what diffi cult to ask for a gift and then tell the entity how much that gift should be.”

Allegheny College contributed approximately $93.1 million to the Crawford County economy in 2004-2005, according to a study by two Al-legheny economics professors, Beh-rooz Afrasiabi and Stephen Onyeiwu. Th e total tax impact of the college, its employees and related transactions came to about $2.7 million.

Nevertheless, in 2012 the city will face budget cuts and tax increases. Meadville needs more money to keep

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Allegheny gift falls short for MeadvilleCity, college to discuss potential increase of annual donation

up a police department and fi re de-partment and to maintain the streets and brick roads around town and campus.

“If you’ve driven on streets around Allegheny, you know that some are in desperate need of repair,” Soff said.

In 2010, Allegheny did not give an annual gift due to the tax law-suit. New buildings on campus hadn’t properly been processed as tax exempt, so Allegheny owed ap-proximately $300,000 in taxes. Th e buildings were then deemed exempt

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Allegheny’s IDEA offi ce will host the Great Lakes College Association’s Students of Color Leadership Conference this weekend, as part of its collec-tion of diversity initiatives.

Chief Diversity Offi cer Lawrence Potter organized the conference along with the GLCA, an organization com-prised of 12 other regional col-leges including Denison Uni-versity, Kenyon College and the College of Wooster.

“Hosting the GLCA SOCLC is one way the Offi ce of IDEA, along with several other cam-pus partners, can demonstrate our commitment to diversity because it combines the aca-demic mission with the co-curricular development of stu-dents outside the classroom,” said Potter.

Th e conference’s 2011 theme, “New Decade, New Challenges: Access, Justice, Leadership, and Sustainabil-ity,” will feature panel discus-sions lead by several Allegheny faculty, including Professor of Environmental Science T.J. Eatmon and Associate Direc-tor for Gender and Sexual Orientation Initiatives Steven Canals.

Eatmon’s presentation, ti-tled “A Biochemistry Crisis in the Environmental Studies and

Science Classroom” will focus on the lack of students of color that graduate with degrees in environmental science.

“Th is idea of biodiversity is drawing an analogy to the lack of diversity in the classroom,” said Eatmon. “It’s an indica-tor of the health of our fi eld as we’re educating the leaders, particularly with the biodiver-sity crisis and a lack of species. It’s basically the same idea in the classroom or in a social situation.”

Canals will present “From Tolerance to Acceptance: Be-coming an Ally to the LGBT Community.” By raising aware-ness and providing skills and resources to the community for potential allies, Canals hopes to involve more people in the conversation regarding homophobia and heterosexism in a community, specifi cally the college-based community.

Ben Ho, ’14, a volunteer for the conference, noted its signif-icance with regard to student networking and the expansion of diversity at Allegheny.

“I feel like we’re making this huge push for a more di-verse campus, and I think that it would really do well to show the students on campus that we care about diversity, that we care about getting involved with other schools, that we care to push these initiatives.”

By AMANDA SPADAROContributing Writerspadaroa@allegheny.edu

Tires-to-energy plant approved for construction

Crawford Renewable En-ergy’s proposed tires-to-ener-gy plant was granted offi cial building approval last Monday. Although the facility was a top-ic of debate for Allegheny stu-dents and locals alike in the last academic year, the approval ig-nited the fi rst collective atten-tion that the power plant has seen on campus since its initial proposal.

According to the Meadville Tribune, the Pennsylvania De-partment of Environmental Protection issued the build ap-proval.

Th e plant, located about ten miles from campus, will not re-ceive its air quality permit nec-essary for operation until aft er it is up and running, more than two years from now.

According to its website, CRE’s $350 million dollar facil-ity will employ about 60 “on-site, permanent, union jobs,” approximately 250 construc-tion jobs, and 240 “spin-off ” jobs.

It will produce enough elec-tricity to power as many as 75,000 homes and exceed an economic impact of $44 mil-lion annually.

Students for Environmen-tal Action President Maranda Nemeth, ’12, said that she fears people aren’t fully aware of the potential impacts surrounding the tire-to-energy power plant.

“A lot of people are over-

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looking the [health risks],” she said. “I mean this is big, the emissions are extremely toxic and this is an important thing to be involved with.”

Th e CRE Web Site argues that its facility’s methods pro-duce nothing like the black, pollutant, cancerous incinerator smoke that people so commonly associate it with.

It also claims to benefi t the area by addressing the “waste tire problem”, which in itself poses “health and safety threats.”

According to the site, the entire plant is an enclosed system. Tires will be loaded directly into the build-ing for preparation, and the technology utilizes the best emis-sion control technol-ogy to prevent smells, soot and smoke from escaping the plant.

Brian Anderson, ’13, is a member of SEA. He was also in an FS Environmental Science class last year that spent an entire semester compiling a 70-page report on the pro-posed tires-to-energy plant.

He said that only three other purely tire-to-energy de-signed plants have existed in the United States.

“I know for certainty that two of the three past tire-to-

energy facilities had enormous fi nes and complaints about air quality,” he said.

According to Anderson’s re-search, one of those plants was destroyed in a fi re, and the only remaining plant was fi nancially rescued aft er receiving govern-

ment subsidies.Economics pro-

fessor Don Gold-stein said that the lack of success of the other plants should raise eco-nomical concerns for community members.

He said that people should be asking why there aren’t more plants like this in the United States if they’re so fi nancial-ly and environmen-tally viable.

A n d e r s o n feels that the col-lege hasn’t taken enough action beyond the open-panel discussion, which some argued was biased or inef-fective.

“Th e college as an institution hasn’t fostered any conversation dealing with questionable sustainability or health impacts,” he said. “It just makes administration seem impartial in turn.”

Th e open panel discussion further complicated the argu-ment between a community’s urgent need for job opportuni-ties at the risk of negative envi-ronmental and health impacts.

Goldstein said that calcula-tions like CRE’s projected fi -nancial fi gures and job oppor-tunities are oft en inaccurate, an overestimate that doesn’t purposefully, but nonetheless does, oversimplify total im-

pact.Anderson felt that the $350

million could be better spent. He said that the college could have hosted a discussion or speaker that addressed alterna-tive energy options, such as a wind turbine project on Erie’s coast.

Goldstein, who was at the open panel discussion in Feb-ruary, agreed.

“An off shore wind farm in the Erie area would gener-ate far more economic impact and jobs than a tires-to-energy plant could ever hope to do,” he said. “Good skilled high pay-ing jobs doing something that has a long term future because its part of real fundamental so-lutions to our energy problem.”

Nemeth said that SEA has been looking for a way to sup-port community members that are opposed to the plant’s con-struction.

Th ey were particularly in-terested in assisting the Craw-ford Area Residents for the Environment group which formed as a direct response to the facility’s proposal last year.

Aft er receiving a letter from a representative at the Environ-mental Justice Network, SEA decided the tires-to-energy plant would be its new focus.

“Our goal is to partner up with this network and be in-volved in the community ac-tion and organizing in any way,” Nemeth said.

In a letter to Allegheny en-vironmental leaders and Presi-dent James Mullen, EJN asked that students and faculty rally with CARE to appeal the re-cently approved building plans.

“I think it’s going to turn out to be something that’s re-ally amazing and I hope that we can really get involved and work like a team,” she said. “What exactly we’ll do I’m not quite sure, yet but I see us help-ing with letter writing, or hold-ing community meetings, or anything they kind of need.”

give a gift to the city of $50,000 per year.

Th e gift eventually increased by another $15,000 aft er Al-legheny continued buying ad-ditional housing that would take away property taxes.

About 40 percent of the total property in Meadville is tax exempt. If Allegheny’s buildings were not tax exempt, the college would pay at least $700,000 in city taxes.

Th e city’s goal was to have tax exempt owners pay 30 per-cent of what they would nor-mally pay, said Tim Groves, City of Meadville fi nance di-rector. For Allegheny, this amount would come to around $200,000.

Groves acknowledged the dependent relationship be-tween the campus and the community.

He said that Allegheny gives back to the community in ways that are not fi nancial, such as Make a Diff erence Day and other volunteering activities.

“Unfortunately, that’s just not a direct dollar,” he said. “And we need the direct dollars right now.”

One third of revenue is

based on real estate taxes, Groves said, but that hasn’t changed in 22 years because Meadville is “landlocked.” Rev-enue is stagnant but costs have gone up.

“We’re hoping that [the col-lege] can see the value of ev-erything we do,” Groves said. “When you came here, if there was no city around the college, would Allegheny have been your choice?”

Larry Lee, Allegheny Col-lege senior associate vice presi-dent of fi nance and planning, said the reason for giving the gift was Meadville’s value as part of the Allegheny commu-nity.

“We wanted to recognize that the college needs a strong and vibrant Meadville to real-ize our potential, just as the city needs a strong and vibrant Allegheny College to realize its potential,” he said.

Raising the amount of the gift comes up every year, he said, but he does not expect it to increase much.

“If you equate it to tuition dollars, [the $65,000 yearly gift is a burden for Allegheny to pay] because the primary

source of Allegheny’s operating revenue is our tuition dollars,” Lee said. “I think it’s a signifi -cant gift , but it’s one we think is worth paying.”

Stephanie Martin, professor of economics, supported the gift and found the size appro-priate. As a former member of Allegheny’s Fina nces and Fa-cilities Committee, Martin said that the gift , though it amounts to much less than the value of Allegheny’s property, would be roughly the value of the area if it were residential.

“For me, what’s more im-portant is that the college pro-vides resources to community partners,” she said. “Revenue is one thing, but the human resources we have here [at Al-legheny] could be very valu-able if put to good use.”

Mayor Soff stressed Allegh-eny’s positive relationship with the community.

“Our entire goal is to make sure we can still have a viable city for [the college] to stay here and attract more students and faculty,” he said.

“As [President] Mullen and I have talked [about] several times, the success of the city has a direct impact on the suc-cess of Allegheny,” Soff said. “We have a great relationship [with the college] and we real-ize that it’s a gift .”

Th e city is currently in the process of scheduling a meet-ing with Allegheny to discuss the gift .

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to experiment with new shapes and patterns aft er inspiration from other artists.

“In the early ’70s I went to an exhibit at the Whitney Mu-seum of American Art in New York and saw quilts displayed as art pieces,” said Silk. “Aft er that I was really inspired to pursue quilting as something more than a functional prod-

uct.” Silk that

her work fi t into the theme of “Th e Year of Sustainable Communities,” because of the benefi ts quilt-ing can give to communities and sustainable living.

“Quilt-ing can bring regular people together to talk with one another,” said Silk, “and for me all of my work is about using old mate-rials and mak-ing something new, which has level of sustain-ability.”

Resident advisor and member of Students For Environmen-tal Action, Ian Colley, ’13,

explained the way his motiva-tion for attending Silk’s events changed aft er learning more about her work.

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Quilting can be a social activity and something

people teach one another,

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Quilter promotes community

By EMMA VICTORELLIContributing Writervictore@allegheny.edu

You wake up at noon on Saturday and you’re cold and tired. Th e rain spitting at the window certainly doesn’t help. You planned to do homework in the aft ernoon before partak-ing in various Saturday night activities. Sure, go ahead and get started on that homework. An hour later when you’re browsing the internet, procras-tinating and not getting any-thing done, get off your butt and bake something.

When it’s raining and cold, I’ve found there’s no better way to spend a Saturday aft ernoon than baking. It may become my winter ritual. A weekend cleanse for my week of chaos.

If you’re feeling introspec-tive, then bake alone. It’ll do something for your soul. Or if you’re in the mood to interact, fi nd your friends and have a good time.

My friend Charlie Magov-ern, who has become a bak-ing fi end if you don’t know him, initially invited me to make coff ee cupcakes with him. Anything with coff ee in it, count me in. Aft er search-

ing for recipes, we settled on cinnamon roll cupcakes with a coff ee-fl avored frosting.

Imagine a gooey cinnamon roll with the consistency of a coff ee cake.

First, preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

Mix together the ingredi-ents for the cake part: fl our, sugar, baking powder, salt, butter, sour cream, eggs and vanilla extract. For once, I can put all of the ingredients in the same bowl. Make sure you soft en your butter before you attempt to use your man-power to stir it all together. Otherwise, you’ll have to use an electric mixer. Trust me, we learned from experience.

To make the cinnamon fi ll-ing, combine soft ened butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. Because our butter was rock hard, we combined these in-gredients in a pot on top of the stove.

Get out your cupcake pans, metal or aluminum. If you don’t have paper liners, spray with PAM or something simi-lar.

Place a spoonful of batter in each one and then drip about a teaspoon of the cinnamon

mixture on top. Using a tooth-pick or straw or something thin, gradually swirl the mix-ture into the top of the batter. Th en put another spoonful of batter on top and swirl more cinnamon on top.

Bake for about 20 minutes until you can insert a toothpick or fork and have it come out clean.

While the cupcakes are cooking and cooling, prepare the frosting, using brewed cof-fee, butter, sugar and vanilla extract. For a stronger coff ee fl avor, add more coff ee. But, keep in mind, you may have to add more sugar to get a good consistency. Frosting is easy if you put it in a Ziploc bag and cut off a small corner.

You’re supposed to wait un-til the cupcakes are completely cool before you frost them, otherwise they will get runny. Th is situation becomes para-doxical because the cupcakes are without doubt the best right out of the oven. Th e cup-cakes are just like a cinnamon roll -- they’re better when they are warm. Don’t wait, share them right away!

Th e original recipe can be found at bakingdom.com.

Fabric artist to host quilting workshop with students

Fabric artist Louise Silk brought her creative perspec-tive to Allegheny this week as the third “Year of Sustainable Communities” speaker. Silk’s events feature her use of quilt-ing techniques to create art pieces.

Silk presented a documentary Th ursday evening, “Th e Quilters of Gees Bend.” Th e fi lm displayed the role of quilting as a connec-tion between members within a small Afri-can-American com-munity. Silk will also host a presentation at the Meadville Coun-cil of the Arts Gallery on Friday at 7:30 p.m. and an all-day quilting workshop on Saturday in the Campus Center from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Rebecca Wiler, As-sistant Director of Event Services and a member of the Pub-lic Events Commit-tee, hoped that Louise Silk’s events would show Allegheny stu-dents how quilting may be considered an art form.

“Louise Silk’s art-work is absolutely beautiful,” said Wiler, “and I think what she’ll bring to students is a new perspective of what art can be.”

Silk explained that she fi rst learned to quilt as a conven-tional process, but then began

cause of a sense of obligation to the year’s theme, but aft er learning more about Louise Silk, it became more of a curi-osity for me,” said Colley. “I’m interested to see her use of quilts as art pieces.”

Colley said that he planned to bring residents from his building to Silk’s showing of the documentary and looked forward to learning more about quilting’s role within the communities.

“Quilting can be a social activity and something that people teach one another, that way they can get into greater contact and learn to respect shared space,” said Colley. “All environmental action starts with a strong community.”

Resident of Allegheny’s Art House Jessica McDonald ’12, also described her personal connection to Silk’s work. Mc-Donald said that Silk’s focus on communities related to her ex-perience with Special Interest Housing.

“Th e goal of Special Interest Housing is to connect students at Allegheny to one another through activities and pro-gramming,” said McDonald. “I really saw this happening in the Gees Bend documentary, when people came together to make the quilts.”

Elizabeth Weiss Ozorak, professor of psychology, said in an e-mail that she believed Louise Silk’s work might en-courage “nervous beginners” to approach quilting in their own lives.

“She has made me appre-ciate the process, not just the product,” said Ozorak.

Top: Elaina used brewed coffee, butter, sugar and vanilla extract to make the coffee-fl avored frosting. To prevent runny cupcakes, she suggests waiting for the cupcakes to cool before frosting them. Bottom: The cupcake fi lling consists of softened butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. These ingredients can be combined in a pot on the stove.

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For the third consec-utive year, the Chess Club hosted a game of Human Chess Thursday night in the CC Lobby. Both facul-ty and students com-peted in the event,.

Chess Club Presi-dent Thuc Vu was impressed with the enthusiasm of the at-tendants. “It was hi-larious, there was full-energy participa-tion,” he said. “That’s what I wanted, for ev-eryone to have fun.”

The Blue team de-feated the Red team in a close match.

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Th e Gators suff ered their fourth loss of the season at the hands of the Wabash Col-lege Little Giants at home this weekend with a fi nal score of 22-16.

Th e defeat by the nationally ranked Little Giants puts the Gators at 4-4 for the season. Wabash thwarted an attempt at a Gator comeback despite a forced fumble by Drew Perry at the Gators’ 38-yard line in the fi nal fi ve minutes of the game.

Doug Williams picked up the fumble, enabling quarter-back Jordan Fowler, ’12, to lead a 48-yard, 11 play drive down-fi eld that would have given the Gators the go-ahead score. Th e off ense failed to capitalize on the opportunity, as Fowler’s pass to Matt Griffi th, ’12, fell incomplete on fourth down.

Despite the loss, the Gators held advantages in several sta-tistical categories. Th ey gained 66 more yards than Wabash in total off ense and held the ad-vantage in time of possession.

Th e off ense held the ball for 37 minutes that included a Fowler touchdown pass to full-back Dan Lubarda, ’14 and a fi eld goal by kicker Ryan Zipf, ’12. Th e Gators led by three un-til Wabash quarterback Chase Belton put the Giants up 14-10 going into the half with a three-yard keeper into the end zone.

Zipf added two more fi eld goals in the second half, tying

his career high by going three for three, but Zipf ’s eff orts would not be enough to earn the Gators a victory.

“If we punch the ball in in-stead of settling for fi eld goals then we probably would have won,” said Fowler. “We just need to bring the same eff ort level against Hi-ram and we should be good to go.” Matlak also stressed fi n-ishing drives and pre-v e n t i n g opposing quarter-backs

from extend-

ing plays. “ W e

need to f i n i s h drives with touchdowns, not fi eld goals and do a bet-ter job of plas-tering wide r e c e i v e r s when the quar ter-b a c k scram-b l e s , ” s a i d M a t -lak.

Aft er surrendering their number one conference seed last weekend to Ohio Wesley-an, the women’s soccer team scored three times in seven minutes in their fi rst play-off matchup against Wooster Wednesday aft ernoon.

“All that we can do is move on,” said Head Coach Mike Webber. “It won’t help to dwell on the loss.”

Th e Gators looked to bounce back against the Fight-ing Scots aft er 2-0 loss to the Battling Bishops on the road.

In that matchup, the squad struggled off ensively.

“We had to take a lot of out-side shots, since we couldn’t seem to break past OWU’s last line of defense,” said senior Alex Gordon. “We did what we could with the opportunities we were given.”

Th e Gators had no prob-lems on Wednesday, shutting out Wooster 3-0 and returning to their strong defensive pres-ence.

“I think it was a tremen-dous experience for them,” said Webber. “Th ey were working really hard in training and got over their loss Tuesday very quickly. To come back like that in a big game says a lot about

Th e men’s cross country team was unable to defend the NCAC title for what would have been the eighth straight year last weekend, fi nishing second overall.

Th e Big Red of Wabash out-paced the Gators by a slight margin, with Allegheny fi nish-ing at 65 and Wabash pulling ahead with 52 points scored.

First team all-conference performers Kevin Edwards, ’13, and Pat McLaughlin, ’12, placed fi ft h and sixth. Each split 25:44 at the fi nish line. Junior Bobby Over came in at eighth place overall despite battling an illness earlier in the week. He fi nished slightly over his normal pace with a split of 26:05.

Coach Brent Wilkerson credited McLaughlin with an impressive regular season, de-spite his inability to meet his usual time in the NCAC cham-pionships.

Senior Mike Vlah, who earned Second Team All-Conference honors along with Over, fi nished with a time of 26:24, coming at 14th overall. Rounding out the scoring for the Gators was freshman Alex Simon, whose time of 27:23 earned him a 35th place fi nish.

Simon and fellow rookie James Rynes were bright spots for the Gators throughout the season, and Wilkerson cred-ited both for stepping up to

the challenge and keeping the times close.

Aft er graduating fi ve of their top seven runners last spring, the Gators kept their eyes on another NCAC championship title. While disappointed with their second place fi nish, the Gators and their coach were satisfi ed with their perfor-mance as a young squad.

“Our guys rose to the chal-lenge though and stepped up and excelled,” said Wilker-son.

Th e Gators will shift their focus to the regional meet on Nov. 12. Unlike last year, the team will enter this year’s re-gional matchups as the under-dog.

“I think we are all pumped to race in a situation where we have nothing to lose and can be the team that surprises people this year,” said McLaughlin.

Th e Gators still have their eyes on nationals.

“We will have to fi nish in the top four as a team to have a realistic shot at getting an at large bid to nationals,” said Ed-wards. “Fortunately, this team is capable of doing that, and ev-eryone is determined to make that a reality.”

Armed with young talent, the Gators insist that they are able to compete on a national stage.

“We are still focused and determined to get there and show that Allegheny does not rebuild,” said Edwards. “We reload.”

Gators top Wooster in playoffs Women’s soccer bounces back after falling to Ohio Wesleyan

the team.”Prior to the fi rst Ohio Wes-

leyan goal on Saturday, the Ga-tors had held their opponents scoreless for 748 minutes of play.

“Th ere was a bit of a break-down on the fi eld aft er that fi rst goal,” said Webber. “We usually don’t allow goals that early to happen.”

Coach Webber and his team used the loss to their advan-tage, fi nding ways to improve and prepare for their fi rst play-off game of the season.

“Th e good thing about the game is that we could see where we needed to improve,” said Gordon. “It’s hard to dig deep mentally so late in the

season.”Deadlocked for the fi rst 70

minutes against Wooster, the Gator defense recovered from the matchup against Ohio Wesleyan. while looking for opportunities on the off ensive end.

Th ose opportunities came in a 10 minute stretch, with goals by juniors Katrina Gazsi, Dayna Rowe and Ashley Lehr.

Senior Emily Karr, who holds the school’s single-season and career record for shutouts, had four saves on the day. Karr currently ranks fourth all-time in Division III for shutouts.

“We knew that we de-served to win this game against Wooster,” said Lehr. “Th e loss

against OWU reminded us how it felt to lose and we knew that we didn’t want that feel-ing again, so it motivated us to come out as hard as we could against Wooster.”

Assistant Coach Linda Schirmeister credited the girls for playing to their full poten-tial against Wooster.

“I think the girls fi nally did what they’ve been practic-ing all year,” said Schirmeister. “Th ey really came together on the fi eld and played to the abil-ity that they’re capable of.”

Lehr also mentioned the impact of the home fi eld ad-vantage.

“Playing at home meant a lot because we got the chance

to have a lot of fans, no travel-ing, and we could each do our own pregame routines,” said Lehr.

Th e Gators will face number one seed Ohio Wesleyan Satur-day at 7:30 p.m. on the road. Th e team hopes to rebound from their loss and keep their momentum going.

“I think we just need to im-prove on being consistent. We need to do what we did against Wooster against OWU,” said Schirmeister.

“Going into the next game, I have extremely high expec-tations,” said Lehr. “We know that we can beat OWU, we just have to play with a lot of heart and fi nish on our opportuni-

Shortly aft er Zipf ’s third fi eld goal of the day, junior cornerback Colin Hartford dropped what could have been the game-winning pick six for the Gators. Th eir eff orts in the second half would not be

enough to overpower the nationally ranked Gi-

ants. While the team came up short Sat-

urday, some strong fresh-

men per-formances were a high point for the

Gators.

Freshman Derrick Emigh set a personal record with fi ve catches and rookie Raysean

Glenn blocked a punt in the fi rst half.

Th e Gators look to shift their focus to the Hiram

Terriers. Fowler believes that his

team has the right mindset headed into their fi nal two games of the season.

“Th e one thing to take away from last game is the ef-fort level that our entire team had,” said Fowler. “We were only a couple plays away from beating a top ten program and

it was our eff ort level that had us in the game.”

“We took it right to those guys and we didn’t back down from the challenge,” said Emigh.

Head coach Mark Matlak believes that his team played a quality game despite the loss.

“I do feel our guys played a great game,” said Matlak. “We were leading the number nine team in the country and just fell short. We expect to win ev-ery game we play.”

Headed into the next game, the Gators will look to their quarterback to continue his impressive play.

Fowler threw for 240 yards with a completion rate of 73 percent as he continued his streak of crisp quarterback play which includes consecu-tive NCAC player of the week nominations.

Th e loss against Wabash puts Allegheny’s overall record at 4-4, with a 3-2 record in-conference.

While they are eliminated from playoff contention, the Gators will continue to bring intensity to practice.

“We had a great week of practice coming out of the bye week,” said senior safety Ryan Scroth. “We had great focus. We need to keep playing the same way, stick to the game plan and stay consistent.”

Th e Gators will face the Hi-ram Terriers at 1 p.m. at home on Saturday.

Football falls to Wabash in closing minutes BY BEN DAUBERContributing Writerdauberb@allegheny.edu

BY DAN MARCUSStaff Writermarcusd@allegheny.edu

ANDREW CROFFORD/THE CAMPUSJunior Ashley Lehr netted her third goal for the season putting the Gators ahead of the Battling Bishops.

ANDREW CROFFORD/THE CAMPUSFreshman Greta Hilbrands dished out assists to Katrina Gaszi, ’13, and Ashley Lehr, ’13, to help the Gators on their way to their 3-0 victory over the Fighting Scots.

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