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Mayor Wharton comes to campus

Today Mayor A C Wharton, Jr. will be holding a “Town Hall Meeting” on campus where stu-dents will be able to ask him ques-tions about the city.

The event begins at 11:30 a.m. in room 342, the Shelby Room, of the University Center, and is free and open to students and faculty.

“It’s critical. Our students repre-sent the future of our city,” Rashana Lincoln, director of community engagement at New Memphis Institute, said. “It’s important for the students to have a voice with elected officials, especially the mayor. It’s important for them to inform the mayor about what type of city they want to live and thrive in.”

New Memphis Institute, one of Memphis’ few emerging leaders associations, is an organization that offers many programs where students can take community-involved principles to the next level.

“Our organization is set up to attract and retain talent in Memphis through leadership development,” Maya Donald, senior communica-tions specialist at NMI, said. “We are heavily involved with keeping college-aged talent in this city and getting students to see what’s going on outside of campus.”

The organization offers many programs to help students get in touch with the city of Memphis; one in particular is the Memphis Summer Experience, which is offered to any students participat-ing in internships this summer.

“Last year students from over 95 different schools and more than 100 different hometowns from across the country interning in Memphis took part in the pro-gram,” Lincoln said.

The MSE, which is free, is offered to any student interning at local companies, and has a few events that are held in June and

UM garden begins to bloom

Mellow Mushroom moves into Park Ave

In a few weeks, an oasis on cam-pus will be filled with strawberries, cucumbers, mint, sweet potatoes, peppers and a myriad of other veg-etables and herbs. More than 50 raised beds outlined with concrete cinderblocks will house fresh, free food for members of the Memphis and the University of Memphis communities.

For years, the Oasis garden, maintained by the Tiger Initiative for Gardening in Urban Settings, has been a plant haven tucked away behind the Elma Roane Field House.

“It is a great place for students to go out and eat lunch and to graze if they want — a place where you can be outside and be at peace,” Karyl Buddington, founder of the garden and director of animal care facilities for the University, said.

“Classes often work you up, and you have to run from one emer-gency to the next, but there are no emergencies in the garden.”

The garden is open not only to students, faculty and staff but also to the whole Memphis community.

“It is a community garden; it belongs to the community,” Art Johnson, a landscaping employee who has been involved with the garden since July 2010, said. “The primary focus is for students,

faculty and staff, but everyone who wants to be involved can be involved.”

People are encouraged to utilize the garden, either through pick-ing the fresh, ripe produce or just enjoying its lush, natural atmo-sphere. Many faculty members are already using it as an outdoor classroom.

Volunteers are always needed

The intersection of Park Avenue and White Station Road will soon be getting a bit mellower. The Mellow Mushroom is opening its second Memphis location. The new Mellow Mushroom will be located at Park and White Station across the street from Memphis Pizza Café.

“It’s right there on Park, which is a pretty straight shot down to the University of Memphis,” Cary

Fairless, owner of the Mellow Mushroom’s Shelby and Desoto County locations, said. “I think it’s going to be a really good loca-tion for them. It’ll draw families and students. We’ll have a lot of interesting events like trivia and music that will be interesting to students. It’s a strong brand, and we’re looking forward to bringing it out. We’re big Tiger supporters and we’ll have them on the TV’s and we’ll have watch parties.”

The Mellow Mushroom is a franchise that started in Atlanta

in 1974. Fairless and his wife Lori were interested in bringing it here to the Mid-South.

“We started looking at doing a Mellow Mushroom here around mid-2008,” Fairless said. “Me and my wife Lori, we own this one in Germantown. We had eaten at a Mellow Mushroom elsewhere. We liked the food, thought it was really good and we started investigating.”

Fairless said that he wanted to bring that kind of pizza here to Shelby and Desoto Counties.

“So we decided to look into it

and one thing lead to another and we started working on it,” Fairless said. “We opened in January 2010. It took us almost 20 months from when we started to when we got it open.”

Some employees said that the Mellow Mushroom just has a good feel to it.

“I’ve been here since it opened up,” Dennis Harris Jr., a server at Mellow Mushroom, said. “I like the atmosphere here, the vibe is

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Solutions on page 8 July of each year. Like the “Town Hall Meeting” today, one pro-gram, ‘A Conversation with Mayor Wharton,’ offers a forum where par-ticipants can openly engage with the mayor.

“The beautiful thing about the mayor is that he is accessible,” Lincoln said. “There may not be many events like this, but he is only an email or phone call away. We’re very lucky to have a mayor like that in Memphis.”

Along with meeting the mayor,

students involved with this program will get the chance to meet many business professionals in the area.

“This is a place that wants, and is in high demand, for young profes-sionals; this city is really focused on keeping young college-educated talent here,” Lincoln said.

Every student at the University has the ability to come take advan-tage of the privilege of discussing our city with one of Memphis’ most prominent leaders.

Any student interested in the Memphis Summer Experience can find more information on NMI’s website, newmemphis.org. n

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Last year, the United States faced two controversial bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act, which were strongly protested with the larg-est online strike in history.

More than 100,000 websites participated in a “blackout” in which site owners would shut their website down and post a message expressing that they aimed to “Save the Internet,” along with an explanation of why SOPA and PIPA were, in their opinion, bad news.

This year, a similar contro-versy is being faced with the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.

According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a website dedicated to defending digital rights, CISPA’s purpose is to “use cyber security systems to identify and obtain cyber threat information to protect the rights and property” of the company and then share that informa-tion with third parties and the government as long as it’s for cybersecurity purposes.

One of the biggest advocates for the strike last year, Fight for the Future, is also against CISPA.

“CISPA punches a giant hole in the Fourth Amendment and

invalidates every website’s pri-vacy policy,” Evan Greer, cam-paign manager for Fight for the Future, said.

The Fourth Amendment states that “the right of the peo-ple to be secure in their per-sons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violat-ed, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, sup-ported by oath or affirmation and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

Greer believes that if CISPA is passed, it would grant corpo-rations sweeping legal immu-nity to share private user data like the contents of emails, bank statements and search histories with the government.

University of Memphis junior Josh Marking also disagrees with the passing of CISPA.

“The bill doesn’t specify on which area of privacy so they could look at anything technol-ogy-wise in your life,” Marking said. “I don’t support it because it kills our freedom.”

While CISPA is written to focus on texts or emails of indi-viduals, according to EFF, it is written broadly enough “to permit your communications service providers to share your emails and text messages with the government, or your cloud

storage company could share your stored files.”

On the other hand, bill sup-porters argue that this would be beneficial to protect Internet users from foreign sites that hack into websites to gain access to personal information.

“I wouldn’t care because

it could help if someone was harassing or something some-where,” Amber Smith, sopho-more U of M student, said.

According to Greer, CISPA is being lobbied for by big tech companies that want the legal protection that the legislation provides.

“They’re willing to trade their users’ rights to privacy in order to get it,” Greer said.

Those who support the bill say that CISPA is a necessary move since the U.S. has been dealing with a growing number of attacks from countries like China.

A number of amendments have been made to the bill in order to ensure the privacy and proper use of citizens’ rights, one of them being that compa-nies can only use the informa-tion they receive for cyber-secu-rity purposes, not to aid their businesses.

“The Internet is good at defending itself,” Greer said. “We defeated SOPA and ACTA. We stopped CISPA in the Senate the first time around, and unless there are some major, major changes, we’ll stop it this time, too.” n

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to plant and tend to the garden. Johnson asks only two things of those who go to pick produce.

“We ask that they don’t uproot anything and that they leave enough for other folks as well. We call that reaping responsibly,” Johnson said.

For the past few weeks, some of the plants, including peppers and tomatoes, have been starting their roots atop the Life Sciences Building in a greenhouse filled with tropical plants and colorful orchids.

“They make paper pots and allow them to germinate for a few weeks before planting them,” Barbara Taller, associate professor, said.

These seedlings were recently planted and will soon be accompa-nied by sweet potatoes, marigolds and catnip. The latter two are used in an effort to make the garden both fruitful and organic.

“Combination planting is the primary way we keep the garden organic,” Johnson said. “We plant marigold and catnip, plants that confuse or disorient pests, or ones they don’t like.”

TIGUrS has fostered productive gardens organically for years.

“It is important for the garden to remain organic for the simple fact that we don’t want to introduce any toxins that would go into the soil, into the plant and potentially into the food,” Johnson said. “Also, organic foods are definitely tastier.”

On April 13, TIGUrS planted a new community garden near the corner of Highland and Walker Streets next to RP Tracks as a part of the MEMFix event.

“We planted herbs and vegeta-bles they can use in their dishes as well as a fig tree and rosemary bush,” Buddington said.

While that garden will most likely be used primarily by the res-taurant, it is also open to the public.

“That’s how our gardens have always been; they are free for everybody,” Buddington said.

Buddington has high hopes for the garden and the University.

“I would like to see it continue to grow. I think our University has an excellent chance to be a leader in urban garden development,” Buddington said. n

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Since last June, Julia Gutlerret has been handcraft-ing jewelry made from bullet casings. Gutlerret has an art degree from the Nashville Art School in Tennessee.

She got the idea of crafting bullet shells because her fiancé works at a gun store. Every week or so, Gutlerret goes to the shooting range in Horn Lake, Miss., to collect all of the used bullet casings.

“I hate to see the metal being left on the ground,” Gutlerret said. “At least I am able to save the Earth, if only by a little bit.”

To fashion the casings into jewelry, she uses pliers to cut and turn the metal into dif-

ferent shapes. The jewelry is for both men and women, as it ranges from earrings to key chains. She also orders colorful crystals to incorporate into the jewelry to add an extra touch.

Gutlerret has her own shop in Horn Lake, but still travels all over the East Coast selling her jewelry at different events. The latest event she attended was the University of Memphis’ Earth Day, where she set up a booth.

“We never turn anyone down who wants to set up a booth, as long as it has some kind of environmental focus to it,” said Arthur Johnson, University of Memphis garden advisor.

Gutlerret’s main goal is to be able to run her business out of her home. n

Artist recycles bullet casings into jewelryBy Laura NelsonSpecial to the Helmsman

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WASHINGTON — Amid dis-closures that Russia tipped the FBI in 2011 that one of the Boston Marathon bombers had become a Muslim radical, Republican leaders of the House Homeland Security Committee plan to hold hearings to examine what the bureau and U.S. intelligence agencies might have done to thwart last week’s attack.

The committee’s chairman, Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, and New York Rep. Peter King, a key subcommittee chairman, asserted that the elder of the two Chechen brothers impli-cated in the Boston attacks appeared to be the fifth person since Sept. 11, 2001, “to participate in terror attacks” after being interviewed by the FBI.

In a letter over the weekend, they demanded “all information pos-sessed by the U.S. government” in advance of the bombings relating to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder brother who died in a police shootout early Saturday.

An FBI spokesman declined immediate comment on the letter, sent to FBI Director Robert Mueller, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and James Clapper, the director of national intelligence.

Across Capitol Hill, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has asked FBI offi-cials to appear before her panel on Tuesday to talk about the Russian tip about Tsarnaev.

The House Republican demands contrasted sharply with praise being heaped on the bureau and other law enforcement agencies for iden-tifying and tracking Tsarnaev and his 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar, within days of the attacks, under-scoring the seesaw public relations battle facing those agencies in the ebbs and flows of terrorism.

Details are still emerging about Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s activities prior to the attacks, and the bureau’s investigation is sure to be dissected closely, though the disclosures to date suggest that even a misspelled name could have foiled the bureau’s attempts to stay abreast.

In the latest grizzly revelation, the Boston Globe reported Monday that a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 25-year-old Brendan Mess, was among three young men whose throats were slit, apparently on the night of Sept. 11, 2011, the 10th anni-versary of the 2001 terror attacks on New York and Washington. Those murders haven’t been solved.

The FBI acknowledged last week that an unidentified country — now known to be Russia — sought infor-mation from the bureau in 2011 about Tamerlan, based on the dis-covery that he was a follower of radi-cal Islam and “a strong believer” who had changed radically since 2010. The foreign request also stated that he was preparing to travel to Russia to join underground groups.

FBI employees checked U.S. government databases in search of information, such as “derogatory telephone communications” or use of Internet sites that promote radi-cal activity, as well as interview-ing Tamerlan Tsarnaev, but found no terrorism connection, a bureau statement said. After reporting the information to the foreign govern-ment (Russia), the FBI requested more specific information but got none back, it said.

A former federal prosecutor who led an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in western Texas, McCaul questioned in television interviews why a “customs flag” wasn’t posted on Tamerlan before he left the coun-try in January 2012 for a six-month visit to Russia, where his parents live.

“I think the real question inves-tigators have right now is, what was he doing for six months?” McCaul

asked. “And when he comes back, one of the first things he does is puts up a YouTube site that has radi-cal, jihadist rhetoric on that website. And of course, nine months later, he pulls off the largest terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11.”

However, another congressional Republican, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said in a Fox News interview Monday that a senior FBI official advised him that the bureau couldn’t have tracked Tsarnaev’s six-month visit to Russia in 2012 because “they misspelled his name” on an Aeroflot flight manifest.

“So it never went into the sys-tem that he actually went to Russia,” Graham said he was told by an assis-tant FBI director. Left unclear was whether Tsarnaev misspelled his own name in an online booking or the airline did so.

McCaul and King pointed in their letter to four other home-grown ter-rorists whom the FBI interviewed before they participated in attacks, including Nidal Hasan, the disaffect-ed Army major who shot and killed 13 people and wounded 42 others at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009; and Anwar al-Awlaki, a Muslim cleric who preached radical jihad to Hasan and others for years until he was killed in Yemen by a CIA drone in late 2011.

The others were Carlos Bledsoe, also known as Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, who shot and killed one soldier and wounded another at a military recruiting center in Little Rock, Ark., in 2010; and David Headley, an American who was sen-tenced to 35 years in prison for help-ing plan the deadly 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

In a report by former FBI Director William Webster, the bureau was criticized for numerous lapses that allowed Hasan to go forward with the Fort Hood incident.

But Brian Jenkins, a terror-ist expert for the Rand Corp., said that since 2001 the FBI “has made a remarkable transformation to become an effective domestic intel-ligence agency,” thwarting more than 40 attempted attacks before last week’s bombing.

Only three attempts by home-grown terrorists got past the bureau, including a failed bombing attempt in New York’s Times Square, he said.

“We’re not going to bat 1.000,” he said. “The volume of material is enormous. All intelligence organiza-tions and analysts live in dread of the unattended dot that should have been connected and was not.” n

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Federal crime scene investigators examine an apartment on Monday, April 22, 2013, that belonged to two men who allegedly had ties to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

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A Weekly Devotional For You What is God Like?

Almost everyone has a concept of God, except those who are fools. As is stated in Psalm 14:1 “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.” Many of the concepts of God are what people conjure up in their own minds. They, in effect, “create” God as they wish He were or as they think He should be. How-ever, the only reliable way to see what God is really like is to examine what He has revealed of Himself in the Scriptures. The first thing that one notices is that God is sovereign. He answers to no one. He is under no law. He is a law unto Himself. He alone determines what is good and what is evil. He was sovereign in creation. He made the created universe as He wanted to and was neither helped nor hindered by anyone or anything. Speaking of the creation, David said in Psalm 33:9 “For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.” He is sovereign in salvation. He infallibly saves all He intends to save. Speaking of those for whom He died, Christ said in John 6:39, “And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.” He is sovereign in the government of this world. Nothing frustrates Him. It is said in Psalm 115:3 “But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.”

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If you could ask Mayor A C Wharton a question

what would it be?By Nathanael Packard

Tigers’ Ta es

“I would ask what he is going to do to prevent gun violence in Memphis.”

Jonathan Armstrong,Professional studies

senior

“I would ask if he had any control over lowering tuition.”

Rodney Young,Architecture junior

“What’s actually going on with the school board and why can’t he guide them on what to do next?”

Taylor Mitchell,Theatre freshman

“What’s your favorite color?”

Drake Bailey,Theatre freshman

“Why is the field called the Jungle?”

Spencer Crews,Computer science junior

just real cool.” Other employees of the

Germantown location share the same sentiment.

“I’ve been here a little bit under a year,” Kyle Douglas, pizza cook, said. “I like working here because it’s laid back. There are good peo-ple that work here, and it’s fun.”

Fairless and his wife Lori were new to the restaurant busi-ness prior to opening the Mellow Mushroom.

“It was an existing restaurant and an existing idea and we had never been in the restaurant busi-ness,” Fairless said. “It was nice to have someone who knew what they were doing, so that we could access systems and procedures and those types of things. So we brought it out here and worked hard to make

it work here. We have a partner at our second location. Andy Harvey is our partner. Andy and I go back over 30 years so he and I know each other really well.”

The new location, currently a bank building built in the late ‘60’s, will have an outer space theme.

“It kind of looks like a space-ship, I guess,” Fairless said. “The food will be consistent, but the look will be different. In looking at it, we decided that it is really a retro future space kind of theme. So it’s got some rockets and ray gun designs.”

The new Mellow Mushroom will most likely open in late July or mid-August.

“We’re moving full speed ahead,” Fairless said. “So the soon-er we can get it open that’s what we’re hoping to do — just in time for the fall semester.” n Server Dennis Harris Jr. (left) owner Cary Fairless (middle) and pizza cook Kyle Douglas (right) are

pictured in Memphis’ first Mellow Mushroom location in Germantown, Tenn.

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Men’s tennis team clinches bid in NCAA Championships

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The University of Memphis men’s tennis team earned a chance to play nationally-ranked Tulsa in the Conference USA Championship on Sunday at Memphis University School after defeating the University of Alabama-Birmingham and Rice in the C-USA Tournament on Friday and Saturday.

Out of the 11 prior meetings with Tulsa, the Tigers had not won a matchup. That would change Sunday as Memphis finally defeated Tulsa and earned the school’s first men’s tennis conference title. The team won three out of the five singles matchups and two out of three doubles matchups, ending the defending conference champions’ title run.

Tulsa was the winner of six of the last seven tournaments for Conference USA, beating Memphis in last year’s title game 4-0. David O’Hare talked about how last year’s loss compared to Sunday’s victory.

“We were in Tulsa’s position last year having lost and placing second,” O’Hare said. “It was not enjoyable watching Tulsa pose with

the finger up and the trophy. But we are certainly enjoying it right now.”

Tulsa is the third top-25 opponent the Tigers have beaten this season. The other two opponents, Cornell and Virginia Commonwealth University, have come since March 8, when the Tigers traveled to New York. Since the road trip, the Tigers are 8-3 and have not lost in April. Winning the conference tourna-ment clinched an appearance in the NCAA Championships, which start May 18.

Lukas Vrnak, Johnny Grimal and David O’Hare were Sunday’s singles winners.

Freshman Vrnak was apprecia-tive of the fan support on Sunday, as well as the efforts of his teammate.

“I’m so happy we won the dou-bles, then we brought it with sin-gles,” Vrnak said. “And I would like to thank all who came. It is like hav-ing one more player on the team.”

Two Memphis scores came early from the doubles matchups. O’Hare and Joe Salisbury won one match, and Connor Glennon combined with Cedric De Zutter for the other victory.

O’Hare accounted for two of Memphis’ points, winning his single and doubles matchups. The junior from Dublin, Ireland, capped off the end of the year well and won all three doubles matches with 2012 All-Conference USA first team doubles partner Joe Salisbury.

“It was just our time, you know, we’ve been putting in so much hard work and today the belief showed,” head coach Paul Goebel said. “We fought from the first to the last point, and that’s what it takes to beat a good team.”

The win for the tennis team guarantees them a spot in the NCAA championships. The selec-tion show for the tournament will be Tuesday, April 30 at 5 p.m. n

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With constantly rising tuition costs and the struggling economy, it is harder than ever for college students to avoid going into debt. Students are always trying to save a buck whenever possible, and TUN.com is looking to help students do just that.

TUN, or the University Network, was launched in 2010 and has since worked to find deals for students at more than 600 colleges nationwide, includ-ing the University of Memphis. Additionally, stu-dents can save at more than 12,500 participating businesses through TUN, which is a testament to how much TUN has grown since its inception.

“Tremendously. It’s crazy,” Shannon Eberly of the University Network said about how quickly the site has grown. “The website started off as just a bare website, and we were advertising to just a few universities.”

Upon opening the site, viewers are greeted by a search bar where they can enter the name of a univer-sity, and the site will pull up a Google Maps view of the surrounding area along with various deals.

For example, when the “University of Memphis” is entered, the map dis-plays student discounts at Garibaldi’s Pizza, CK’s Coffee Shop, RP Tracks

and more than 40 businesses in the Memphis area.

Deals on the map are categorized between bars, pizzas, cafés, retail, arts and entertainment, health and fitness, beauty, recreation, restaurant and other. If the map is too cluttered, there is also a list and a search bar on the right-hand side of the screen.

TUN can also be easily accessed

through the free TUNdeals app on iPhone and Android phones. In addition to the map and list views also available on the website, the app includes a live mode in which the user points the camera of their phone in a direction, and the app displays deals located in the direction that the camera is facing, as well as how far away the location is.

In the event that a discount is no longer offered, app users can flag the discount as inaccu-rate so that old deals can be removed.

Eberly also thinks TUN has an edge over similar sites like Groupon.

“TUN is a little more convenient,”

Eberly said. “TUN advertises deals businesses already have and students just don’t know about.”

TUN also works with businesses to get unique deals.

Sophomore biology major Morgan Bromley is excited about the idea of finding deals on TUN.

“That sounds like a pretty rocking search engine,” Bromley said. n

Students save with TUN.com

“TUN is a little more convenient [than Groupon]. TUN advertises deals businesses already have and students just don’t know about.

SHANNON EBERLY,The University Network

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The University of Memphis Tuesday, April 23, 2013 • 7

Entering the weekend series against the Southern Miss Golden Eagles, the University of Memphis baseball team had been on a roll, winning 10 of their last 11 games.

With the Golden Eagles sitting in first place atop Conference USA, the Tigers had a chance to move into the top spot by taking the series. Although Southern Miss outscored Memphis 13-4 in the first two games on Friday and Saturday to take the series, the Tigers managed to avoid the sweep with a 2-1 win in a pitcher’s duel on Sunday.

Junior southpaw Alex Gunn took to the mound in game three for the Tigers and pitched a gem, going a career-high seven and two-thirds innings while allowing one unearned run.

“We looked at the past two days and talked about how aggressive they were and how to keep our balls low in the mitts and they would probably get themselves out,” Gunn said. “We did that today, and they hit a lot of ground balls and we got (them) out.”

The lone Golden Eagles’ run came early in the game with the help of a Tiger error. Southern Miss’ Blake Brown laid down a bunt on the third baseline and beat the throw, but Memphis threw the ball away and allowed Brown to advance to second. Isaac Rodriguez also bunted, reach-ing first base and advancing Brown to third. Jared Bales grounded into a double play, but Brown crossed home plate to give the Golden Eagles a 1-0 lead.

The score stalled at 1-0 until the Tiger bats heated up in the seventh inning. Redshirt junior Drew Griffin led off the inning with a single to right-centerfield and moved to sec-ond on a sacrifice bunt. After Griffin

reached third base on a groundout to give Memphis two outs, the Golden Eagles walked Carter White to put runners on the corners. Junior Ford Wilson, who entered the lineup in the sixth as a pinch-runner, followed with a first-pitch single to the left to even the score at 1-1. Freshman Jake Little came up big in the next at bat, doubling to left-centerfield to give the Tigers a 2-1 advantage.

“That was somewhat of a veter-an at bat,” said head coach Daron Schoenrock about the young Wilson. “You know a younger kid, 19, 0-0 (count) and we knew going in that he was probably going to get a fastball, but then giving him that moment after two weeks of being out, boom, he triggered movement in the ball. That’s somewhat of a veteran move that sometimes young guys aren’t capable of and it allowed Jake Little to feed off that and get another big hit behind him, so two big at bats there in a close game.”

Redshirt senior Heith Hatfield came in on relief for Gunn with two outs in the eighth and sat down the first batter he faced. The Golden Eagles threatened with two straight singles with two outs in the top of the ninth, but Hatfield struck out the next batter to preserve a 2-1 victory for the Tigers.

Griffin led the Tiger offense with two hits. His hit in the seventh sparked a three-hit inning versus two hits in the previous six innings.

The Tigers play host to SEC rival Mississippi State tonight at 6:30 at Autozone Park. Memphis has domi-nated SEC competition this year, going 6-1 with their only loss coming at Alabama. The game is part of a dou-ble-header at the stadium, with the Memphis Redbirds scheduled to take on the Iowa Cubs at 2 p.m. Tickets for tonight’s game will be sold exclusively through the Redbirds’ tickets office. n

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