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www.angelina.edu
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
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Vol. 47, No. 11
Health fair, picnic
set for campus
By Dylan Roark
Reporter
Angelina College’s Annual
Health Fair and Picnic will be
held Thursday, April 21 from 9
a.m. until 1 p.m., and it is free
for everyone on the Lufkin
campus.
The health fair will be held
in the Cafeteria from 9 a.m.
until 1 p.m. William Bunn,
Cafeteria manager, will provide barbeque for the picnic,
which will be located on the
sidewalk between the Library
and Student Center from 11
a.m. to 1 p.m.
Many organizations will
be at tables in the Cafeteria,
giving away literature about
various heath-related subjects
and giving presentations that
inform students about various
issues.
The Coalition for Angelina
County will provide information about preventing alcohol,
tobacco and drug addictions.
The Burke Center will provide information on how to receive mental health care, counseling and child care.
The Family Crisis Center
will give out information on
domestic abuse and how stu-
dents can get help.
East Texas Community
Health will be providing information on health and dental services while nurses from
Woodland Heights Hospital
will be giving free physicals,
where the participants can get
information about their own
personal health situation.
Health Horizons will be
giving free tests for sexually
transmitted diseases and giving literature about prevention
of STDs.
The students of AC potentially face many physical and
mental health problems that
could hinder their education.
Some students have to cut
back work hours while going
to school while others have
children who need care while
their parents are in classes.
Others face potential illnesses because of a lack of nutrition or exercise. The health
fair is meant to try to help students learn about these problems and how to prevent them
or deal with them.
“An ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure,” Myrtle
Welch, AC’s nurse and coordinator of the Annual Health
Fair and Picnic, said.
Debra Jenke, left, and Benetha Jackson, right, receive pins for
their 10 years of service as advisers to the Upsilon Rho Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa. Dr. Patricia McKenzie presented the
pins during a called faculty meeting Friday, April 1.
PTK recognizes instructors
By Garrett Moore
Reporter
The National Chapter of Phi
Theta Kappa, the honor society
for community colleges, on Friday, April 1 recognized Angelina
College instructors Debra Jenke
and Benetha Jackson for their 10
years of service as advisers to the
Upsilon Rho Chapter.
In a letter issued to the recipients, PTK Interim Executive Director Dr. Lynne Tinch-
er-Ladner wrote, “We at Phi
Theta Kappa owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to our
chapter advisers whose dedicated service is responsible for
the success of our local chapters. Advisers are truly the lifeblood of our organization, and
we are delighted to recognize
them for their years of service.”
Jenke teaches government
courses at Angelina College
while Jackson is a psychology
instructor.
Respiratory students study for exams
By Andrew Baker
Reporter
The Angelina College respiratory care students have
national board certification
examinations coming up, and
in order to pass, they will be
using The Persing Review and
Respiratory Review Workshops, Inc.
The board exams consist of
two tests: One is a written test
about therapy, and the second is a clinical simulations
test. The Persing Review was
designed to help the students
prepare for these national
board exams.
The Persing Review is a
workshop that lasts two days
and will help the respiratory
students study for the two different tests on two different
days.
One day, the review will
teach students shortcuts and
test-taking strategies for the
therapy test, and the next day,
it will teach them shortcuts
and tips for the clinical simulations test.
Photo by Amie Silva
Rockin’ Roadrunners
support Relay for Life
By Kelsey Triana
Reporter
The AC Rockin’ Roadrunners club members are raising
funds for Relay for Life.
For the Coaches for Cancer
sports event, they attended all
basketball and baseball games,
selling Relay for Life T-shirts and
raffle tickets. The sports events
raised around $2,000, but the
club members’ goal for the semester is $5,000.
During the month of March,
jars were placed in each building on campus to collect donations, and at the end of the
month the building with the
most money collected decided
what Angelina College President Dr. Michael Simon will
wear to the Annual Health Fair
and Picnic on April 21.
During the month of April,
the members are gathering
votes to determine who will
kiss the pig on the day of the
Health Fair and Picnic. The top
three nominated candidates
will face off for donations the
day of the picnic, and the person with the most donations in
his or her jar at the end of the
picnic will kiss the pig.
T-shirts are currently on sale
and will be until the date of the
Relay for Life. They are $15 for
regular sizes.
Raffle tickets are also being
sold around campus. The winners of the raffle will receive
prizes ranging from gift cards
to gift packages. Crown Colony has offered the grand prize
of a golf package for four, including a night’s stay in one of
the Crown Colony Villas. Gift
cards include Marco’s Pizza,
Olive Garden and Academy.
Alpha Beta Gamma
inducts new members
Angelina College’s Business Division inducted 22 new
members into the Alpha Beta
Gamma International Honor
Society in a ceremony held
Sunday, April 3.
Newly inducted members
include Sara Almendarez,
Amanda Baker, Kimberly Burris, Cody Bynog, Eric Crane,
Brandi Durham, Kelby Durham, Allan Fiallos, Robbin
Gibson, Wendy Havard and
Saundra Joiner.
Other inductees are Eric
Menchaca, Kristin Moore, Leslie Morales, Paola Morales Delgado, Ann Nix, Citlalli Perez,
Jazmin Robles Hernandez,
Umeko Rodriguez, Morgan
Stott, Meri Wyatt and Deana
Yankie.
Guest speaker Krystal Garcia Riley, attorney for Skelton,
Slusher, Barnhill, Watkins,
Wells LPLLC, encouraged the
new inductees to maintain focus in two areas of their lives:
hard work and perseverance.
“You need these two things
to achieve what you want in
your lives,” Riley said. “And
don’t ever give up. There’s always something trying to get
in your way. Perseverance will
get you past every obstacle.”
Saundra Joiner, center, receives her certificate of membership
in ABG from Dr. Tom Branton, right, associate dean of the
Business Division.
Bethany Baldwin, left, and
Jennifer Harvey
Publications
win awards
By Bethany Baldwin
Reporter
Two members of the Angelina College newspaper
staff received awards for the
on-site contests at the Texas
Intercollegiate Press Association conference in Dallas
March 31 through April 2.
Both four-year and twoyear colleges and universities across the state participated in the on-site competitions in which students
compete under a time limit
in photography, writing,
broadcast announcing and
design contests.
Four students participated in the on-site competitions, and two students
placed. Jennifer Harvey
participated in the on-site
feature writing contest and
received honorable mention, and Bethany Baldwin
participated in the on-site
news writing contest and
received second place.
Awards were also given for
previously published contests.
Nine students placed in these
contests.
For the Pacer newspaper, Cheyenne Wilson
placed second in the feature photo contest; Jennifer
Harvey received honorable
mention in ad design; and
Nick Sheehan, Devan Hadnot and Ernesto De La Paz
placed third in feature page
design: other awards received include first place in
sports action photo to Nick
Sheehan; Devan Hadnot
placed second in editorial
cartoon; and Ernesto De La
Paz placed third in editorial
cartoon.
For the AC View magazine, Devan Hadnot received honorable mention
in picture story.
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Angelina
College
Connections
Every MondayBible study at the
BSM, 7 p.m.
Every TuesdayFree lunch at BSM
11 a.m.-1 p.m.
April
2 - “Showtime! 2016,”
Temple Theater, 7:30
p.m.
3 - “Showtime! 2016,”
Temple Theater, 2:30
p.m.
5 - “Joyous Jumpin’
Jazz,” Temple
Theater, 7:30 p.m.
6 - Lady Roadrunner
softball vs. Paris, 1
and 3 p.m.
8 - Roadrunner
baseball vs. Navarro,
4 p.m.
9 - Roadrunner
baseball vs. Navarro,
1 p.m.
13 - Lady Roadrunner
softball vs. Tyler College, 1 and 3 p.m.
14 - Roadrunner
baseball vs. Panola,
3 p.m.
16 - Lady Roadrunner
softball vs. NTCC, 1
and 3 p.m.
18 - Roadrunner
baseball vs. TCS Post
Grad, 3 p.m.
19 - “Music That
Moves,” Temple
Theater, 7:30 p.m.
Financial aid department
helps find ways to pay
By Bethany Baldwin
Reporter
Angelina College’s financial
aid department’s purpose is to
serve the students, Sue Jones,
director of financial aid explained.
The financial aid counselors are available to all students
for information on important
dates, documents and support
for paying for AC and other
colleges or universities.
Jones explained one of the
primary jobs of the financial
aid personnel is to counsel students.
Their office is sometimes
swamped with mandatory paperwork they must send to the
state in order for AC to receive
money for financial aid for students, but the staff members
are available to work with students’ schedules.
Some of the ways students
can receive financial aid include Pell Grants, Texas Public
Education Grants, work-study
programs, scholarships, the
Hazlewood Act, Texas Grants
and Texas Educational Opportunity Grant.
To receive financial aid for
the 2016-2017 school year, a
student should send in his or
her Free Application for Federal
Student Aid report. The deadline to send FAFSA in to AC for
summer classes is April 15, and
the deadline for fall is June 14.
The FAFSA determines a
student’s eligibility for a Pell
Grant, a sum of money given
to students who demonstrate
financial need.
The Texas Public Education
Grant, 6 percent of the tuition
of a college set aside for financial aid, is handled by the
choice of the college or university.
The Federal Work-Study is a
program funded by the federal
government in which a student will work on campus for a
set number of hours per week
depending on funding. It is determined by FAFSA as well.
Many scholarships are offered at AC, some of which
go unclaimed because no students apply for them. A large
scholarship given by an outside source is the Smith Hutson scholarship. Its deadline
for fall 2016 was March 15.
Other scholarship information
is available on the AC website.
The Hazlewood Act is an
exemption from tuition from
the State of Texas for veterans
who entered the military from
the state of Texas and were discharged honorably or under
honorable conditions from
active duty. The Act usually
covers a bachelor’s degree and
can be claimed by the veteran’s
spouse or children if it goes
unclaimed by the veteran.
The Texas Grant is a grant
varying in amount set aside
for students who are entering
college after graduating high
school, and the Texas Educational Opportunity Grant is
for students who are entering
college from nontraditional
sources such as years after finishing high school from homeschooling or with a GED.
Many opportunities for financial aid are available to students of all backgrounds.
Polk County Center
26 - AC Swingin’
Roadrunner Jazz
Combo and ACC Big
Band in Concert,
Hudgins Hall
Auditorium, 7:30
p.m.
29 - Roadrunner
baseball vs.NTCC, 4
p.m.
30 - Roadrunner
baseball vs. NTCC, 1
p.m.
May
6 - Roadrunner
baseball vs. Paris, 3
p.m.
Chillin’
Photo by Amie Silva
Emerson Alamo sits outside the Liberal Arts Building on
March 24 reading his business book while he waits for class
to begin.
Photo by Amie Silva
Enjoying the spring day on March 24, Irene Acevedo sits in
front of the Administration Building to study for an upcoming test.
AC speech students
participate in H.O.S.T.S.
21 - Roadrunner
baseball vs. BPCC, 5
p.m.
25 - Roadrunner
baseball vs. Wharton,
5 p.m.
✳
Off-campus
Happenings
20-21 - Blood Drive,
north parking lot, 9
a.m. to 5 p.m.
21-23 - “Night Mother”
by Marsha Norman,
Black Box Theater,
7:30 p.m.
✳
Just
✳
By Kelsey Triana
Reporter
Contributed Photo
The Polk County Center held a meet and greet with the new
AC President Dr. Michael Simon on Friday, March 4. Simon
shared his vision of the role AC will play in the Polk County
area. Administrators attending were Steve Hudman, left, dean
of student services; Timothy Ditoro, dean of community services; Dr. Patricia McKenzie, vice president and dean of instruction; Kevin Wooten, director of Angelina College Polk
County Center and Simon.
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In 1997 Brandon Elementary introduced the HOST
Program, which is being used
throughout the country in
1,300 different schools. It is
dedicated to giving students
one- on-one time with mentors in order for them to succeed.
Until last year, high school
students in the Lufkin Independent School District were
serving as the mentors; however, last year the program
was introduced to Angelina
College students in Suzi Honeywell’s Business and Professional Speech class.
The program has been influential in the community.
The students in the program
enjoy creating a bond with
their mentors. All the mentors
are volunteers ranging from
college students to grandparents, all looking to help build
their community.
Each student is tested individually and his or her results
determine who his or her mentor will be. Once the students
are placed with their mentors,
they are periodically tested on
their progress.
The results from the program show a significant improvement in the students’
performances at school. Many
teachers noticed, with the help
of a mentor, the students are
more eager to learn and learn
faster.
Since the program offers
each student individual oneon-one time, the students involved have shown an increase
in their self-esteem. This leads
to an overall better performance from those students. A
significant decrease in discipline referrals and truancy for
the students in the program
has been recorded.
Volunteers for the program
are always welcome with no
specific requirements requested other than a desire to help
enrich young minds in the
community.
Each mentor is placed with a
specific student who lacks skills
in the area in which the mentor
is proficient. An organized set
of lesson plans is provided each
week for the mentor to review
with his or her student.
Each volunteer is required
to dedicate 30 minutes per
week to the program.
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Immigration critical problem in Europe
By Dylan Roark
Reporter
Immigration has become a
critical issue in Europe. People
from all over the Middle East
and Northern Africa have
gone to Europe, many claiming to be Syrian refugees.
This situation has led to a
large increase in the population of many major cities in
France, Germany, Great Britain and many other European
nations.
The increase in population
has also led to an increase
in crime all across Europe
since some of the immigrants
have lived in countries that
have different laws, including
Sharia law in many countries.
Sharia law encourages
the mistreatment of women
and non-Islamic people. The
minority of Muslim immigrants who oppose these laws
are also affected because they
become targeted by people
who stereotype the immigrants.
This issue has caused harm
to many people on both sides
because of the sheer number
of people arriving in the countries. The nations are spending
large amounts of resources
to supply these people with
enough food and entertain-
ment since many of the immigrants complain about being
bored in refugee centers.
Many countries, such as
Sweden and Germany, are trying to censor and criminalize
criticisms of their immigration policies despite the fact
that violent crime is increasing since many immigrants
are uncivilized young men.
Many of the crimes have
also been targeting young
children, too, with pedophile
rings being discovered all
across Europe.
To stop this situation,
European countries must
stop hiding the terrible things
being done and accept that
these immigrants are not the
poor oppressed people they
claim to be.
They need to strengthen
their immigration policies
and become stricter on the
immigrants, giving them little
leeway on places they can go
and what they can do.
If the immigrants have
children, they should be
allowed to take their children
to schools that can accommodate their lack of knowledge
of the country, its laws and its
language.
The immigrants should
not be forced to change their
culture altogether, but they
should be taught that if they
want to live in a country, they
can expect to be properly punished if they break the laws of
that country.
All new immigrants should
be rigorously examined to
make sure they are who they
say they are. Especially after
the multiple attacks Paris has
had in the past years, they
need to be cautious about who
they let in. Europeans need to
worry about their own people
first and the peoples of other
countries second.
If Europe is to stay a world
power, it needs to take an
issue like this seriously, no
matter what guilt their people
feel for crimes their ancestors
committed.
Because of the Nazis, many
Germans feel they are responsible just because they were
born in the same country as
Hitler; therefore, they want to
be passive to anyone who is
claiming to be a victim.
I can understand the
humanitarian side, but people
cannot stand aside while
outsiders who do not understand basic human decency
are hurting people in their
country. This goes for all of
these countries in Europe,
even those without a history
as bloodstained as Germany.
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Arts and Entertainment
ACC Big Band
concert set
Photo by Eduardo Ramirez
Retha Powers, left, who plays the mother, and Kelsey Grimes, who plays Jessie, perform a scene
from the play " 'night, mother," coming to the Black Box Theatre in the Angelina Center for the
Arts April 21-23.
The ACC Big Band will perform in concert Tuesday, April
26 at 7:30 p.m. in Hudgins
Hall.
The concert will celebrate
Jazz Appreciation Month,
featuring the music of Count
Basie, and it will celebrate the
life of Keith Girardi-Pulley,
son of the baritone saxophone
player in the band.
Directed by Larry Greer,
AC music instructor, the band
will play selections from the
following Count Basie tunes:
“Best of Basie,” arranged by
John Berry; “April in Paris,”
arranged by Bob Mintzer;
and “That Warm Feeling” and
“Moten Swing,” arranged by
Sammy Nestico.
Saxophone players include
Michael Parrish, Carly Hood
on alto saxophone, Dixon
Shanks, Amanda Brown and
Bethe Girardi on baritone sax.
Playing trombone will be
Russell Hopkins as lead, Rob-
ert Shanks, LaVan Watts and
Jimmy Battle on bass. Battle is
also an AC music instructor.
On trumpet will be Dwain
Forsythe, Steve Brown, Ricky
Gay and Mel Miller.
The rhythm section will
include Eric Chinn on piano,
JD Salas on bass, Mark Saldana
on drum set and Greer on guitar.
Jazz Appreciation Month,
also known as JAM, was created at the Smithsonian
National Museum of American History in 2002 to herald
and celebrate the extraordinary heritage and history of
jazz for the entire month of
April.
JAM is intended to stimulate and encourage people of
all ages to participate in jazz
by studying the music, attending concerts, listening to jazz
on the radio and recordings,
reading books about jazz and
more.
Thespians to perform tragedy
The Angelina College theatre department will present “ ‘night, mother,” written
by Marsha Norman, at 7:30
p.m. Thursday-Saturday, April
21-23 in the Black Box Theatre
in the Angelina Center for the
Arts.
Retha Powers will play
Thelma Cates, and Kelsey
Grimes will be Jessie Cates.
The
production
team
includes Chance Chunn as
stage manager, Eric Manus
as assistant stage manager,
Andy Reed for lighting
design, Grimes for costume
and makeup design, Nicholos
Trusclair for sound design and
board operstor, Chris Reeves
as props master and Amy
Young as house manager.
Also on the production
team are Adrian Torres as program artist, Brenda Vallejo as
program editor, Eric Walker
as assistant director and set
design and Kary Raine, AC
theatre instructor, as director.
The action of this tragedy
takes place mainly in the living room/kitchen of a small
house shared by Jessie and
her mother, which is on an
isolated country road. Jessie’s
life is in shambles, and she is
contemplating killing herself.
At first, her mother refuses to
take her seriously, but as Jessie
sets about tidying the house
and making lists of things to
be looked after, her sense of
desperate helplessness begins
to build.
A Village Voice review said,
“Something I hadn’t seen in a
long time happened at ‘night,
mother”: The audience stil sat
applauding after the house
lights came up, as if waiting
for the cast to come round and
join them.”
The New England Entertainment Digest said, “It is
sparse and concise, introspective and penetrating, powerful
and uncompromising, intense
and intelligent, warm and theatrical. It is THE American
tragedy.”
Playwright Norman won
the Susan Smith Blackburn
Prize and a Pulitzer Prize in
1983.
Angelina College students
with a valid ID get in free to
all performances. Tickets are
$5 for adults and $4 for seniors
and other students.
Photo by Rebecca Boles
AC students Ashley Henderson and Samantha Burress critique the artwork during the opening
of the Visual Arts Student Exhibition on Tuesday, March 29.
Angelina Arts Alliance
celebrates 15th anniversary
By Andrew Baker
Reporter
The Angelina Arts Alliance
will present “Mamma Mia!”
Wednesday and Thursday May
18 and 19 at 7:30 p.m. as part
of its 15th anniversary year.
Tickets are $4 for adults; $3
for seniors, students and children; and free for AC students
who show their IDs.
Located in the Angelina
Center for the Arts, the Arts
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Alliance has been entertaining
people in the East Texas area
since 2001.
It started with 181 subscribers and had its first sold-out
performance featuring Marvin
Hamlisch that year.
One highlight of the 15
years was the performance by
Black Violin Feb. 8 and 9 of
this year. The group has performed at three Super Bowls,
collaborated with P. Diddy and
Aretha Franklin and has vid-
eos on YouTube.
On Friday, June 5, 2015, the
Angelina Arts Alliance celebrated its 100th Premier Series
performance, “An Evening
with Vince Gill,” and on March
17 of this year, it had its 110th
Premier Series performance,
“Rhapsody in Bluegrass,” a
musical performed by the
Annie Moses Band with a mixture of Appalachian bluegrass,
Irish fiddle and classic themes.
Photo by Alexandria Robertson
Photography student Alexandria Robertson will show her
photograph in the Angelina Center for the Arts April 19 to
May 3.
Graphic arts students
to display work
Graphic arts students will
be displaying their work in the
Angelina Center for the Arts
from April 19 through May 3.
Showing their projects
will be Jordan Abbott, Brianna Cryan, Richard Hardesty, Andy Landeros, Liliana
Madera, Yesenia Martinez,
Andrew Patterson, Lorenzo
Romero, Rodrigo Vazquez,
Chelsey Brown, Ricky Burns,
Dakotah Crocker, Seth Floyd,
Velvet Guidry, Hector Lopez
and Quentin Riley.
Other students with work
being displayed are Alexandria Robertson, Austin Anderson, Marc Levesque, Mario
Saldivar, Amie Silva, Jonanna
Mason, Kristy McClain, Justin Cheyenne Wilson, Bethany
Baldwin, Luna Garcia, Jennifer
Harvey, Caysie Jeffery, Dylan
Lafitte, Dylan Roark, Chance
Chunn, Jonas Wendt, Rebecca
Boles and Eduardo Ramirez.
These students have been
taught this spring by Jan
Anderson-Paxson, Reg Reynolds, Steve Paul and Libby Stapleton in the various graphic
arts classes.
At Angelina College, we
strive to produce workforce
ready graduates in the graphic
arts program where students
develop technical and aesthetic skills, enabling them to
solve design problems.
Group projects with handson team building and individual assignments result in a
dynamic exhibition at the end
of each semester.
In solving the design solution to any visual problem,
students discover the answer
is in the journey and the process, thereby, optimizing their
creativity.
Marshall McLuhan, media
analyst, said, “Display and
design are ways that information is transmitted through the
medium of material culture.”
AC students present music forum
Photo by Bethany Baldwin
Bethany Perez performs "Clair de la Lune" with Beckie Compton as piano accompaniment at a music forum held in Hudgins
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Freshman Taylor Davis, No. 20, of Nederland is greeted at the plate by her fellow Lady Runners as she just helped secure a place in AC history for her team during the April 6 doubleheader against Paris Junior College.
Lady Runners set new school record during Paris sweep
The Angelina College softball program’s team record for
home runs in a season lasted all
of one year.
That record was re-written during the doubleheader
Wednesday, April 6 against the
Paris Junior College Lady Dragons, which the Lady Roadrunners won 8-0 and 12-8.
Taylor Davis homered twice
in the nightcap of AC’s sweep of
the Lady Dragons at Roadrunner Complex. Davis’ second
homer set the new total at 63,
surpassing by one dinger the
previous record set in 2015.
For the day, the Lady Roadrunners accounted for five homers: Davis hit two, combining
with Shay Vegas for a back-toback performance in the nightcap; Tiffany Hinkelman added a
two-run shot in the same game;
and Kayla Boucher launched a
three-run homer in the opener.
After the doubleheader, the
Lady Roadrunners learned they
had moved up three spots in
the NJCAA Division I national
rankings to No. 12 in the country.
The Lady Runners handled
the Lady Dragons 8-0 in five innings in the opener. Boucher’s
three-run blast led the offense
with Kali Holcomb also driving
home a run in a five-run first
inning.
Vegas, Jynelle Pangelinan
and Miranda Wiggins also
picked up RBI in the win.
Whitney Howerton won in the
circle, tossing a four-hit shutout while striking out two Lady
Dragons.
Paris looked poise for the
split in the evening affair, smallballing its way to a five-run
third inning to take a 5-2 lead.
Davis and Vegas had gone
back-to-back with solo homers
in the first for a 2-0 lead, only
to see the Lady Dragons answer
two innings later.
The Lady Roadrunners rebounded with an offensive explosion, scoring 10 third-inning
runs before the Lady Dragons
recorded an out.
Pangelinan ripped a threerun triple into the right-field
corner; Kayla Lahrmann and
Taylor LaGrange added RBI
singles; and Hinkelman lofted
a two-run homer over the leftfield fence.
Davis ended the inning with
a two-run blast of her own – the
record breaker – and the Lady
Runners were on their way to
the sweep and the record books.
Taylor Odom picked up the
pitching win for AC, now 3314, 14-6 on the season.
Students join vets
for basketball tourney
By Garrett Moore
Reporter
AC Press photos
Daniel Lingua, No. 15, secures an out on second base during the March 19 baseball game.
Runners push forward with wins
against Bossier Parish College
Behind a couple of one-run
games featuring plenty of drama throughout, the Angelina
College Roadrunners earned a
much-needed sweep of Bossier Parish Community College
in the doubleheader Saturday, March 19 at Roadrunner
Complex.
Nathan Miranda ripped a
line-drive double down the
third-base line to score Alex
Walker from second in a 10-inning, walk-off 6-5 win in the
nightcap. That after AC starting pitcher Carson Lance held
the Cavaliers to a single run in
AC’s 2-1 win in the opener.
In the later game, the
Roadrunners were an out
away from the win, nursing
a 5-2 lead thanks to an eightand-two-thirds-inning effort
from starting pitcher Kevin
Roe. However, Bossier Parish
mounted a two-out rally, scor-
ing three runs after Cavalier
Luis Santiago drove a two-run
single up the middle and came
around to score on a wild pitch
to even the score at 5-5.
The Cavs threatened to take
the lead in the top of the 10th.
Andrew Cole and Matthew
Hammock drew back-to-back
walks, and after an AC pitching change to reliever Elijah
Rodriguez, Cole Pippin advanced the runners to second
and third with a sacrifice bunt.
Dakota Wright lofted a fly ball
to left field that appeared deep
enough to score the runner,
but AC left fielder Ryan Bellamy threw a perfect strike
home to nail Cole at the plate
and end the inning.
In the bottom half of the
10th, pinch-hitter Walker
took a pitch off his elbow and
moved to second on Tyler
Newcomb’s sacrifice. Miranda
drilled an inside pitch down
the line and into the corner, allowing Walker to stroll home
with the walk-off win.
Mitch Henshaw and Chris
Estrada drove in first-inning
runs; Tyler Newcomb blasted
a solo homer in the second inning; and Jacob Finke sent two
runs home with a single in the
seventh.
In the opener, Lance posted
one of his best outings of the
season, striking out 10 and
scattering three Cav hits for
one run during seven innings.
AC’s Chris Estrada drove in a
third-inning run with a checkswing bloop double to score
Bellamy. One out later, Finke
scored Estrada with a single to
center field for all the AC runs
Lance would need.
The wins move the Roadrunners to 9-15, 3-6 on the
season.
AC to add soccer
to athletic arsenal
in fall 2016
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AC S.P.E.A.K.S., a club for
interpersonal speech students,
partnered with the Military
Veterans Peer Network to host
the second annual Hoops for
Vets basketball tournament
Thursday, March 24.
The student team, Get
Toasted, came in first place
with the veteran team coming
in second.
Andrew Hines won the freethrow contest, and Shane Estes
won the three-point contest.
The event raised more than
$180 for veterans, and many
care-package supplies for the
military were collected.
A faculty and staff teams,
two student teams and a veteran team had been practicing
since the beginning of the semester.
KTRE-TV and AC Vets had
representatives attending.
Photo by Marc Levesque
AC students and vets come together to raise money for and
awareness of veterans March 24 at Shands Gymnasium.
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Photos of Interest
Showtime! 2016
AC Singers thrill audiences
with own style of song, dance
Shelby Brown, above, performs “When You Wish
Upon a Star” during the AC
Singers’ “Showtime! 2016.”
Josh Robinson, left, sings
“Cry Me a River” at the performance.
The AC Singers, below, perform “Shake, Shake, Shake”
as a group dance during
one of the dress rehearsals for “Showtime! 2016 in
Temple Theater.
Keren Debose, sophomore member, sings “Midnight Train to Georgia.”
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Photos by Andy Landeros
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