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By Tiffany SalgueroCollegiate staff Writer

Contributed photo | Keith Tew

obama targets college students in State of the union AddressPresident Barack Obama promised college tax credits and Pell Grant increases during his Jan. 27 State of the Union Address

Contributed photo | White house

By Mike McalliSTerCollegiate staff Writer

Many students agreed with President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address on Wednesday, Jan. 27, about returning security to the middle class.

After a decade of declin-ing wages and jobs, and increasingly high tuition, Obama proposed ideas and stated changes already made in the address that will affect college students across the nation.

“We cut taxes for 95 per-cent of working families,”

Obama said.“We cut taxes for small

businesses. We cut taxes for first-time homebuyers. We cut taxes for parents trying to care for their children. We cut taxes for 8 million Americans paying for college.”

Obama said that the tax cuts give people more money to spend which in turn helps businesses grow and creates and sustains jobs.

Obama said, “We’re on track to add another one and a half million jobs to this total by the end of the year.”

Jobs are the number one

focus in 2010, according to Obama. He asked Congress for a new jobs bill to be created and passed.

Obama spoke on education and tuition as another topic on the future of America. “We need to invest in the skills and education of our people,” he said.

Obama told of change in education by rewarding only success instead of failure. Only invest in reform and stop funding the status quo.

“To make college more af-fordable, this bill will finally end the unwarranted taxpayer

subsidies that go to banks for student loans. Instead, let’s take that money and give families a $10,000 tax credit for four years of college and increase Pell Grants,” Obama said.

Freshman Nursing Major Joe Paren said, “It’s well placed money. Every penny helps. It makes me feel like the government is working for its people.”

College tax credits and Pell Grant increases are not the on-ly help that Obama proposed to help college students.

He proposed that students

that graduate from college only have to pay 10 percent of their income on student loans and all student debts will be forgiven after 20 years. For those going into public service careers all debts will be for-given after only 10 years.

Obama said the reason for the proposal is, “Because in the United States of Ameri-ca, no one should go broke because they chose to go to college.”

Obama said that colleges and universities are also re-sponsible for making college affordable and they need to re-

President Barack Obama speaks to the United States during his 2010 State of the Union Address

evaluate the cost of tuition.Freshman Nursing Major

Erin Matthews likes the debt forgiveness as well as the tax credits.

“They would really help a lot of students who do have to take out a lot of loans just to be able to pay for college,” said Matthews.

Obama also encouraged the Senate to pass a bill to revitalize community col-leges that serve as career paths for children of work-ing families.

2010-11 tuition increase

Barton’s tuition will in-crease by 5.5 percent which is approximately $1,050, for the 2010-2011 academic year. Ac-cording to the letter sent to students, the increase is due to the struggling economy.

Norval Kneten, Bar-ton’s president, said, “The Barton College Trustees, in their January Board meeting, careful-ly reviewed budgetary requirements, projected and announced increases in tuition at other North Carolina independent and public institutions, and the financial aid needs of our students.”

According to Kneten, the Barton College Trustees rec-ognized that the increase they approved for this year was among the lowest increases in the state and that Barton College’s tuition and fees are below the average for inde-pendent schools in the state and well below the average nationally.

“They also recognized the financial stress that many stu-dents are under at this time. Consequently, at the same time that they approved a

tuition and fee increase for next fall, they also approved an increase in financial aid

funds,” said Kneten. “Based on the information

available at this time, they an-ticipate that the increase for Barton College will, once again, be among the lowest in the state for independent institutions and will be well below percentage increases to be adopted by state institu-tions,” said Kneten.

“The College will continue to work with each student to develop a personalized finan-cial aid and payment plan.”

Barton students have mixed opinions about the raise of tuition. Felix Ginorio, a psy-chology major said, “I have enough students loans as it

is, increasing tuition will just add on to my future debt.”

Kendra Jones, a mass com-munications major said, “The increase will make less students want to at-tend Barton. Many stu-dents are not financially stable at this point.”

Many are wondering where the money from the increase is going to. Kneten said, “Among the many things that tuition supports are the computer systems stu-dents use, heating and cooling, insurance costs, laboratory and clinical supplies, faculty and staff salaries, upkeep

of the campus including parking lots, library support including database access, security including mainte-nance of security cameras, and it goes on and on.”

Kneten said, “Running a campus is like running a small town. When you think you’re done listing the ex-penses, you find that there are more you should have listed. But, every day, we continue to examine each area to find savings so we can keep any increases to a minimum.”

“We are committed to as-sisting all our students on their path to graduation.”

Recylemania returns to BartonBy alySSa Bain

Collegiate staff Writer

On Sunday, Jan. 17, Barton College started participating in this year’s Recyclemania contest. The contest will end on March 27.

Last year Barton took home 14th place.

As of week two, Barton was in 42nd place, but as of week four Barton has recycled its way up to 24th place in the competition and is the top participating school in North Carolina.

The contest consists of two divisions and several categories, but the object of the contest is to recycle. All students, staff, and faculty who recycle are par-ticipating in the competition and to win you must recycle most according to the category you are in.

There are two different di-visions of Recyclemania, the Competition Division and the Benchmark Division. The di-vision a school is in depends on several qualifications and the ability to meet the stan-dards set by the division.

There are also five different participating categories. The categories are Grand Cham-pion, Stephen K Gaski Per Capita Classic, Waste Mini-

mization, Gorilla Prize, and Targeted Materials.

Barton is participating in the Gorilla Prize contest. Ac-cording to recyclemania.com “This category recognizes the larger schools that recycle the highest gross tonnage of com-bined paper, cardboard and bottle and cans during the 10-week competition, regardless of campus population.”

Barton’s Recycling Coordi-nator and Event Coordinator, Linda Best, was asked what she thought the importance of recycling was and said, “To protect the environment, be-cause landfills are overflow-ing.”

Best also said she “desires everyone to recycle.”

Best believes that Barton will make the top 10 of the competition.

Best explained that partici-pating schools do not receive a prize unless they are the win-ning school. The prizes are currently unknown.

The goals of Recyclemania according to recyclemania.com are to have a fair and friendly recycling competi-tion, increase recycling partic-ipation by students and staff, heighten awareness of schools’ waste management and recy-cling programs, expand eco-nomic opportunities while ad-dressing environmental issues in a positive way, lower waste

generated on-campus by reducing, reusing and recycling, and to have the competition act as a catalyst for colleges and universities to build and expand waste reduction programs on campus.

According to Recy-clemania’s website there is a need for the competition, because, “Colleges and uni-versities are small cities that consume large amounts of re-sources and generate much solid waste.”

Also during the competi-tion 80 percent of participating schools saw an accountable increase in recycling.

To learn more about Re-cyclemania you can visit its website, recyclemania.com. There is also a link on the page which leads to it Facebook fan page.

Web photo | www.recyclemania.org

Feb. 25, 1938Miami’s first drive-in movie theater opened. Invented in 1933 by Richard Hollingshead, the first drive-in debuted on

Crescent Boulevard in Camden, NJ. Admission was 25 cents per car and 25 cents per individual, with no car paying more than $1.

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There is no ‘I’ in teamWhile at Barton, be sure to note the importance of teamwork

and learn how to successfully work with others. I know, I know, it’s easy to grunt and resist group projects, as more often than not, one person is stuck with a brunt of the work, but learn from the process. Take the negativity and turn it into a lesson for yourself.

Upon graduation and entering into “the real world,” you’ll find you can’t make it through life without a team helping you every step of the way.

My best team is my family, and my second best team is my Bulldog family. Let’s work together each and every day to acheive our goals and to become successful individuals.

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Being the Editor-in-Chief of The Col-legiate isn’t an easy task, but what makes my job easier, is the support and contributions I receive from my staff members.

It is very hard to fill the pages of the newspaper without the stories I

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WILL’S WAY FOR THE SGA

By Will coBBStudent Government President

By Mike McalliSTerCollegiate staff Writer

With Spirit Night in the rearview mirror and STOP HUNGER NOW fundraising efforts underway, the SGA will be directing its focus towards three specific fundrais-ers in the coming months all benefiting our philanthropy, STOP HUNGER NOW.

The first fundraiser will take place on Thursday, March 4, at 5:30 p.m. The SGA and Buffalo Wild Wings will team together to host the Inaugural SGA/BW3’s Wing Eating Challenge.

Teams of five or less may sign-up for a fee of $25, today and tomorrow in the SGA office or in the café at lunch. Winners of the contest will each receive a $20 gift card to Buffalo Wild Wings. All the money will go to benefit STOP HUNGER NOW.

The second fundraiser will take place after the campus returns from Spring Break. On Thursday, March 25, from 5 to 8 p.m. the SGA will hold a fundraiser at Chick-Fil-A in which 15 percent of the proceeds from redeemed cards at the registers will go to benefit STOP HUNGER NOW. There will also be prizes available at the spinning wheel. Please be on the lookout for more information concern-ing this fundraiser.

The last fundraiser, the Second Annual Dick’s Hot Dog Dash/Weenie Walk, is scheduled for Thursday, April 8, at 3:30 p.m. Registration will be held beginning at 3 p.m. and lasting until start time.

We hope to have individual sponsors for students to run for free as there is a link on www.barton.edu/stop-hungernow to sponsor a student (or several) to run in the race. More information will also be coming about this in another issue.

The three fundraisers will all be leading up to the STOP HUNGER NOW Meal Packaging Event set for Thursday, April 29, at 10 a.m. in Wilson Gym.

I have ONE IMPORTANT CHANGE TO NOTE before I close. The SGA Senate Meeting for March has been changed from Tuesday, March 9 up a week to Tuesday, March 2.

That is all for this edition. Please be on the look out for information concerning the various fundraisers that will be taking place to raise money for STOP HUNGER NOW as the SGA pushes on towards its’ goal of 50,000 meals.

Volunteers from School of Business prepare tax documents for community

Barton College Accounting Professor Patricia Burrus be-gan leading a group of volun-teers, including nine students, on Tuesday, Feb. 16, as they provided free tax service in Hines Hall to the local com-munity.

Burrus said volunteers from the School of Business will be preparing taxes for free through a government spon-sored program. Services will be offered to anyone in Wilson and surrounding areas again on March 2 and March 9, both of which are consecu-tive Tuesdays.

Burrus said there are nine volunteers excluding herself and her husband. The vol-unteers are all accounting students.

Seven volunteers are sec-ond semester tax students; only two have not finished first semester tax classes.

“We can prepare federal taxes as well as any state taxes, not just North Carolina,” Bur-

rus said.Burrus said in a press re-

lease, “Services will be on a first-come, first-serve basis. Check-in will be located in the Hines Hall lobby.”

She also said, “It is i m p o r t a n t that taxpay-ers bring his/her social se-curity card, a picture ID, and the so-cial security card of any-one who will be claimed on the return as a dependent.”

“ D o c u -ments such as W-2s, 1099s, and 1098-Ts are also required, if applicable,” the instructor said. “It is also useful to bring last year’s tax return if avail-able.”

The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, or VITA, is a community ser-

vice program run by the IRS Burrus said. “It is sponsored by Stakeholder Partnerships, Education and Communica-tion (SPEC) and was designed to help low income and elderly

taxpayers,” she said.Burrus said VITA at Barton

College will provide basic re-turns for a variety of forms to a broad spectrum of taxpayers. Forms range from 1040EZ to Retirement Income Report-ing.

Sophomore Nursing Major Sara Geiss showed up to have her taxes done. “It’s helpful and convenient because it is right on campus and some people don’t know how to

file their t a x e s on their o w n , ” G e i s s said.

Nata-lie Mat-tox, a sopho-m o r e nursing major, a l s o had her t a x e s done by

VITA. “It’s such a great idea. The pro-gram works with your classes and it’s a good opportunity if you can’t get home; plus it is free,” said Mattox.

The instructor said that all volunteers have taken the training course “Link and

Learn” through an IRS out-sourced testing service.

The testing service has many different levels of cer-tification said Burrus. “They offer basic to advanced and military to international and all volunteers have to be certi-fied on one or more levels,” she said.

VITA is an IRS approved e-file program Burrus said. “In order to be ready for e-file we had an eight hour training day where an IRS trainer came out and helped us learn,” said the professor.

Volunteer Jonathan Stroth-er, a junior accounting major, said, “This is hands on experi-ence with tax preparation in-stead of typical book work. Working hands on helps me better understand the material and how to apply it.”

Burrus said that VITA is part of a Wilson County consor-tium where other members al-so provide free tax services.

The School of Business has been providing this service for more than 20 years Burrus

said. “I remember the early years when we worked with pencils and made copies to mail out. Now everything is electronic,” she said.

VITA has done an average of 75 returns every year during February and March, Burrus said. She said the program normally ends before spring break.

Burrus said volunteers in-clude her husband R. Tilden Burrus and students Strother, Jonathan Wood, Diego Sali-nas, Darren Smith, Melissa Ritter, Meagan Parrott, Alison Denslow, Brandi Stevens, and Jaren Palmer.

VITA also provides free tax advice to other taxpayers not having their taxes prepared by VITA; anyone can stop by or call, said Burrus.

For more information, taxpayers may call Burrus in the Barton College School of Business at (252)399-6426 or email pburrus@barton.edu.

R. Tilden Burrus prepares tax documentsContributed Photo | Mike McAllister

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Barton College golfers had to pack their drivers and nine irons up and make a long trip back to Wilson after heading south for a three-day tourna-ment in Orlando on Feb. 7.

The Bulldogs trekked to Florida during the cold-spell earlier this month to encoun-ter sunny skies, warmer cli-mate and no snow on the ground.

Despite having everything they wanted climate-wise, the Bulldogs could not take their No. 5 ranking and run with it atop the leader boards.

Senior Tom Muto Jr. car-ried his No. 2 individual rank-ing with his clubs throughout the weekend, shooting a 76-70-77–223 – tied for 18th out of 90 golfers.

Muto led Barton in in-dividual performance, but could not rally them higher than a position of 12 out of 18 teams.

Freshman Daniel Clay-tor carded an 80-78-77–235 for his three days of work in Orlando, and finished 62nd overall.

Hailing from Rocky Mount, N.C., Claytor has come to Barton and made the jump from high school to intercollegiate athletics as a freshman, and currently sits on Barton’s “A” team.

“The biggest change has been the competition level,”

Barton men’s golf placed 12th out of 18 teams in Orlando, Fla. on Feb. 7 during the

NCAA DII Golfweek Preview

tournament.

Bulldogs return from

‘Sunshine State’

By naThan JoyceManaging editor

said Claytor. “The aspect of my game I’ve worked most on has been becoming more positive and not dwelling on past events while I’m on the course.”

Early success in the fall has surged Barton to its cur-rent No. 5 ranking in the Golf World/Nike Division II Coaches Poll. The Bull-dogs had won each of their last two tournaments prior to Orlando.

“As a team, we haven’t played to our highest poten-tial but we have been suc-cessful, especially in the fall, and that is scary, Claytor said. “Coach [John Hackney] con-stantly tells us that when we play to our best ability, other teams will have a hard time keeping up with us.”

Mother Nature did not cooperate in late Jan. and early Feb. and limited time for team members to get on the course, which might have had some affect on the lower finish.

“I know we will play better than our last tournament,” said Claytor. “We will have had much more time to work and prepare than we did before our tournament in Florida.”

Seniors Stephen Harrsion and Muto will be looked up-on to lead Barton down the stretch to finish with a mirror

Barton College and its com-munity has been without pig-skin being thrown around in a competitive manor for more than 60 years, and it will have to wait at least a few more years.

Gary Hall, Barton’s athletic director, confirmed the school has had little thought of adding a football team despite rumors swirling around campus.

“In the 21 years I have served here as director of athletics, the notion that we would add a football team has been mentioned very rarely,” said Hall.

Previously, Barton had a football team from the early 1920s until 1950 that com-peted in intercollegiate com-petition.

An addition to the athletic department is not due to a lack

of interest among students, athletes and other members of the Barton community.

“At this point in time, I do not think it is practical for Bar-ton to add a football team,” said Chris Mizelle, a sopho-more business management major.

“The addition of any inter-collegiate team has the poten-tial to be beneficial to Barton College or to any institution, if that addition is in line with the goals of the institution,” said Hall. “As is true with the athletic teams currently offered here, a football team could be very well received and supported.”

With its recent addition of track and field teams, Barton currently sits with 14 athletic teams and those sports offered have met the goals of the insti-tution, according to Hall.

Money has the biggest in-

fluence on why a football team has not been implemented at Barton.

“An intercollegiate foot-ball team is more expensive to add and to operate by a large amount than are other sports played at the NCAA Division II level,” Hall said.

Mizelle said, “Having a football team would cost Barton so much money and I don’t think the institution could afford to fund it.”

If a football team were to be instituted, many questions would need to be answered: Where would the team play? Would the team build its own stadium? How would the team be funded?

“The initial investment in a program and funding to sustain it would clearly be significant challenges for Barton Col-lege,” said Hall. “Additional revenue, likely to come from

a variety of sources, would have to be generated.”

Mizelle said if a football team was added, it would be at least 50 players, which would force the college to conjure up more on-campus housing and scholarships. We should concentrate on strengthening our teams we have now.

With a plateful of athletic teams right now, it would take a change of consideration as well as a donation to help fund the establishment of football.

Hall said, “The combina-tion of revenues for necessary resources, implications for compliance with Title IX law, and impact on current athletic teams combine to pose the ad-dition of a football team here in the near future as a great challenge.”

By naThan JoyceManaging editor

Athletics believes football is not in field goal range

ladies firstBy naThan JoyceManaging editor

A No. 1 seed, home court advantage and a conference championship have all been claimed by the Lady Bulldogs as the regular season comes to a conclusion.

Barton clinched an outright claim of the Conference of Carolinas championship, for the second straight year, after defeating Lees-McRae Uni-versity.

The ladies have cruised to victories in their previous five games, winning each game by an average margin of better than 24 points-per-game.

Not to be forgotten, the 53 point blowout of Lees-McRae University, which saw nine players reach double digit minutes and no one left on the bench.

Freshman Ashlea Foster made the most of her 15 min-utes, scoring 12 points (6-8 from the floor), seven boards

and four steals.Senior guard Esty Flores

and junior center Kelsey Sill both added 10 points apiece, to follow Foster’s game-high 12.

Sill secured seven rebounds and a pair of blocks and steals to fill up her stat sheet.

In its Feb. 20 victory over Anderson University, Barton kept its winning streak intact and upped it to 16 straight.

“Our defensive effort has been getting better each game,” said Wendee Sain-tsing, Barton’s coach of 21 years. “We work hard on de-fense everyday and our team has bought into the fact that defense wins games.”

Statistics back up Sain-tsing’s claim, with the Lady Bulldogs averaging just above 12 steals and five rejections over their last five contests.

Saintsing said “defense is our game” and leads to more looks on offense and fast break

opportunities, which is where Flores has proven to be dan-gerous.

“Our defense has been so successful that I am able to get at least 12 points off of fast breaks,” said Flores. “We have all realized our strengths as a team.”

Saintsing praised the bench production, saying, “We have played at least 10 players deep every game, I think that’s what has been a factor in our success up to this point.”

However, this regular sea-son conference championship does not ensure Barton a spot in the NCAA Division II tour-nament in March. Only one team from Conference Caroli-nas will extend its season into late March – the conference tournament winner.

In 2009 Barton watched its invite to the National Tourna-ment in March be taken away by Anderson after losing in the semi-finals.

“Over past years we have been there and not finished-we are looking for a finish this year,” Saintsing said.

Barton is only in its second year of action in the Southeast Region and is currently sit-ting at No. 8 in the regional ranking, according to NCAA.com.

“Our region is very strong, and they [the tournament se-lection committee] have no respect for our conference,” said Saintsting.

The Lady Bulldogs will enter the Conference Caro-linas Tournament on March 1 in Wilson, looking for an outcome that does not mirror the previous two years.

Saintsing said, “We have good team chemistry and good character, and it would be great to share a champion-ship with our fans, friends and families.”

This year the sorority Sig-ma Sigma Sigma won the spirit stick. The spirit stick is awarded to the organization that shows the most spirit dur-ing spirit night.

The winner is determined by Barton’s president, Norval Kneten.

Spirit night is an annual event where Barton students show their school spirit by at-tending the men’s and wom-en’s basketball game.

This year spirit night was

held on Feb. 11 at 5:30 p.m. “Students are encourage

to paint themselves in blue and white or dress up in blue and white, which are Barton’s colors.” said Misty Harrison, member of CAB.

Student government asso-ciation (SGA) and Campus activity board (CAB) are the host of spirit night.

SGA takes this opportunity to raise money for Stop Hun-ger Now, an organization that helps relieve world hunger. SGA raffles off tickets that were sold at the cafeteria dur-

By Tiffany SalgueroCollegiate staff Writer

Barton shows spirit at basketball gamesing lunch time.

The prizes that were raffled off were the 1st and 2nd series of Dexter, the complete series of Friends, an ipod and some t-shirts.

Will Cobb, president of SGA, said, “This year we are closed in on $470.35 total for Stop Hunger Now, which equals to 2000 meals (4 meals per dollar or 25 cents per meal). I thought Spirit Night was a great success without a doubt. Clubs and organiza-tions came out and supported both the women’s and men’s

Basketball and the raffles went even better than we expected. It was a great night for every-one involved and I was espe-cially pleased with how our fans, specifically our students, handled the events surround-ing the end of the men’s game with the heartbreaking loss at the buzzer.”

Charlie Healy, SGA trea-surer, said, “Spirit night was a lot of fun.”

Darryl Saul, freshman, won the 32G i-Pod touch.

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Barton College will host the world premier of the play “Afric’s Muse” written and directed by Eric Carl. Carl is a professional actor and play-wright out of Raleigh.

The play will premier March 4-6 at 8 p.m. and on March 7 at 3 p.m., in the new Lauren Kennedy and Alan Campbell Theater.

According to Adam Twiss, director of theater at Barton, the play is about Phillis Wheat-ley, the first published female African-American poet and freed slave.

She was a favorite poet amongst some of the most famous presidents George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

“Eric Carl was inspired to write the play by a good friend name Rasool Jahan, who is playing Phillis Wheatley in the production,” said Twiss. “Eric has worked with Barton before in our previous produc-tion, The Crucible.”

The play is composed of Barton students and profes-sional actors. Student Wesley Pridgen, is playing actor two, and Jesse Jones, is playing Mary Wheatley.

Jensen Davis and Chris Wallen also Barton students are assistant stage managers for the production.

Chris Bernier, theater tech-nical director at Barton, is in charge of lights and scenic design. Matt Smith a Barton

graduate will be in charge of sound. Twiss is producer of the play.

Rasool Jahan, a profession-al actress, is playing Phillis Wheatley; Bob Wagner, for-mer professor of Barton and professional actor, is playing John Wheatley; Elizabeth Winstead, lecturer in music at Barton, is playing Susannah Wheatley, Valerie Woodard, a professional actress, is play-ing Mercy; Wiley Edwards, a professional actor, is playing the prince; Michael Murray, a professional actor, is play-ing Nathaniel Wheatley; Rob Reinbolt is playing actor one, Christine Rapp is stage man-ager and Legrande Smith is costumer.

“The story of Phillis Wheat-ley is a remarkable one,” said Twiss. “When you have the chance to write a play about a historical figure it gives it the ability to illuminate the person in a different light. Wheatley was an amazing literary fig-ure and is often over looked because of her controversial writing. The play provides an opportunity to learn about a historical controversial figure in a very entertaining way.”

According to Twiss, the play will be a great success and he hopes that it will have the same amount of success as “Drift” another production that priemered at Barton.

“Drift” was named best show of the year in 2009 in Raleigh.

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By naThan JoyceCollegiate Sports Writer

Barton’s senior Dillon Sauls runs upfield against UNC-Pembroke’s Jenessa Mikolowski during the Lady Bulldogs’ 3-1 loss at the Barton College Athletic Complex. Sauls couldn’t have been more proud of her team during her last game.

The Lady Bulldogs lost 3-1 against University of North Carolina Pembroke

The Barton College Women’s Soc-cer team wrapped up its season with Senior Night in Wilson, where they were downed by the University of North Carolina Pembroke 3-1.

Pembroke got the scoring started early with a goal from Anna Svensson, netting in the bottom left of the goal nearing the 12th minute. Svennson took a total of 11 shots on goal, which led both squads.

Svensson’s teammate, Britney Joiner, made her mark on the game, scoring just 10 minutes later on a shot from 18 yards out, for an unassisted goal. With an early 2-0 lead, Joiner wouldn’t be finished just yet.

The Lady Bulldogs finally got on the board in the 47th minute with a ball off the foot of sophomore Azlynn Aycock. Senior Dillion Sauls was credited with the helper, making the score 2-1.

UNCP wasted no time in widening the gap, as it added another goal from Joiner, her second in the match.

Joiner took this one herself, hav-ing no help from teammates as she netted the 15-yard blast nearing the end of the 52nd minute mark.

A very young team, featuring 11 freshmen, six sophomores, and three juniors, the Lady Bulldogs will say farewell to the only two seniors on the squad: Dillon Sauls and Marissa Macri.

After dropping the match, Barton fell to 3-12-2 overall on the season, and 3-6-2 in conference play. In the upcoming seasons, Barton will pos-sess a great deal of veteran leader-ship, with an abundance of under-classmen right now.

UNC-Pembroke spoils Barton’s ‘senior night’

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No. 3 ranked Barton Col-lege continued its torrid play on the golf course, winning a second tournament title in as many weeks.

The Bulldogs came home from Clemmons, N.C. victori-ous again, claiming the Will Wilson Memorial which is also the Southeast Region-al Preview.

Out of 16 teams partici-pating in the tourney, Barton marked up the scorecard with a score of 879 of three rounds, sitting it in a familiar position: on top of the leader board.

Victory didn’t come easy for the swing kings of Barton as they were five shots behind Belmont Abbey after the first round of the three day event, after they shot a 299.

Golf wins again, takes no. 3 rankBy naThan Joyce

Collegiate Sports WriterDay two saw the Bulldogs

shoot their way to a three-stroke lead over Belmont Abbey, seizing control of the tournament heading into the final round.

Belmont Abbey began Tuesday’s final round scorch-ing, managing to erase the three-shot lead Barton had built the day prior. Then came the back nine.

Resilient, Barton clawed its way back on the final nine holes en route to victory.

A great team performance allowed the Bulldogs to revisit the sweet taste of victory, but solid individual performances also helped the cause.

Senior, Stephen Harrison, shot a 77-74-72 in the respec-tive rounds, while fellow se-nior, Tom Muto Jr., shot a 211 of the three round event, nearly winning the individual perfor-

mance of the tournament.Freshman, Daniel Claytor,

finished 44th among a field of 90, stroking a 76-73-81–230 over the course of the three day competition.

On Oct. 12, Barton teed off in Ponte Verda Beach, Fla. and managed to set the pace by four strokes on their way to claiming the Queens Invita-tional.

The Bulldogs have moved up in the national rankings significantly in the last two weeks and have jumped from 7th to 3rd in their last move up the charts.

The consecutive first place finishes in the Queens Invita-tional and Will Wilson Memo-rial gives the Dogs back-to-back wins and at least a third place finish in their last three events.

Lady Bulldogs ‘served’ in loss to St. Andrews Knights

Barton’s Mel Ritter hits a shot against St. An-drews during Barton’s 3-2 loss at home.

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By naThan JoyceCollegiate Sports Writer

The Barton Lady Bulldogs volleyball squad was killed in the fifth set of their Oct. 27 match against St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Wil-son, dropping the final two sets for the loss.

Barton pounced on the Knights quick, snatching the first set 25-22. The Knights came back to take the second set of the match, 26-24, to

even the score at one game apiece.

Set three put the Lady Bull-dogs ahead in the match once again, defeating St. Andrews 25-23, and looking for only one more set to claim the match.

With their backs against the wall, the Knights clawed their way back into competing for the match, after downing Barton 33-31, and pushed the match into its fifth and final set.

St. Andrews, with defeat staring them in the face, scraped their way through the fifth set, managing to down Barton 15-13.

Barton’s Mel Ritter stood out, again. Her 31 kills led all players, and nearly doubled the kills of St. Andrews’ leader, Galina Podolsky, who spiked 17 of her own.

Ritter’s game above the net is not the only area where she excels, but below the net as well. Her 22 digs were second most on the team, to Cassie Blackmon (25), and Ritter also five aces serving the ball.

The loss drops Barton to 12-15 overall on the season, with a 6-7 record in Confer-ence Carolinas play.

Barton coach Patrick Morgan said, “Their record is deceiving. They are a good team with three good attack-ers that can score points. We didn’t serve very well in three games and St. Andrews made us pay for it.”

Barton’s been bit by the in-consistency bug here of late, only collecting two victories in their last six contests. In their previous two games prior to the battle with St. Andrews, Barton’s gone 1-1, losing to Chowan and defeat-ing Elizabeth City State.

Morgan said, “We need to win another match to be sure we qualify.”

The ladies look to right the ship in the next two weeks, before thinking about begin-ning the Conference Caro-linas Tournament on Nov. 10.

“For us to have success in the playoffs we need to serve more aggressively but more consistently as well,” said Morgan.

A World Series many thought would have the most runs scored in Series history has been stifled by the aces of both pitching staffs, and has the series at a 3-2 advantage for New York.

Philadelphia Phillies starter Cliff Lee continued his post-season supremacy in game one of the World Series with one of the best starts in recent Series history.

Phillies Manager, Charlie Manuel, handed Lee the ball to start game one of the World Series in New York. Lee took the ball on the biggest stage baseball has to offer, not hav-ing any postseason experience prior to this season, after being left off the Cleveland Indians postseason roster in 2007.

Game one proved to be no problem for Lee. He stood only 60 feet, six-inches away

Phils force Series backto New York, face elimination

from one of the most potent lineups in all of baseball and mowed them down.

Lee tossed a complete game, not giving up a single earned run and reached double digit strikeouts (10). Yankees slug-gers Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira combined for a 0-8 night with five strikeouts.

New York Yankees cov-eted offseason pickup, CC Sabathia, has been as putrid as his counterpart, Lee. Sa-bathia had a 3-0 record in the postseason this year before he entered game one.

The 6’7” lefty threw seven innings for the Yanks, giving up two runs, both coming off Phillies second-basemen, Chase Utley homers. The Phillies 6-1 victory in game one gave them a quick 1-0 lead in the series.

A.J. Burnett started game two for the Yankees and dazzled. He used his power fastball and breaking ball to

quiet the bats of the Phils.Burnett struck out nine in

seven innings of work and gave up only one run which came in the first inning. The Yankees won the game 3-1 and tied the series at one game apiece.

The third game included five home runs and 13 total runs scored in the game, which is what many figured they would see between the two offensive juggernauts.

The all-time leader in post season victories, Andy Pet-titte, allowed four runs over six innings of work, but was enough to grab another vic-tory and give the Yanks a 2-1 series lead.

Sabathia came back on short rest to pitch game four while the Phillies passed on the opportunity to counter with Lee, and instead started Joe Blanton.

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