Volume 47, No. 11

StudentPublication for

Angelina CollegeLufkin, Texas

Member: Texas Intercollegiate Press

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Texas Community College Journalism Association

THEPACERTuesday, April 12, 2016 www.angelina.edu Vol. 47, No. 11

By Kelsey Triana Reporter

The AC Rockin’ Roadrun-ners 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 se-mester is $5,000.

During the month of March, jars were placed in each build-ing on campus to collect do-nations, and at the end of the month the building with the most money collected decided what Angelina College Presi-dent 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 per-son 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 win-ners of the raffle will receive prizes ranging from gift cards to gift packages. Crown Colo-ny has offered the grand prize of a golf package for four, in-cluding a night’s stay in one of the Crown Colony Villas. Gift cards include Marco’s Pizza, Olive Garden and Academy.

Rockin’ Roadrunners

support Relay for Life

By Andrew BakerReporter

The Angelina College re-spiratory care students have national board certification examinations coming up, and in order to pass, they will be using The Persing Review and Respiratory Review Work-shops, Inc.

The board exams consist of two tests: One is a written test about therapy, and the sec-ond 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 dif-ferent 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 simu-lations test.

Respiratory students study for exams

Photo by Amie Silva

By Garrett MooreReporter

The National Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the honor society for community colleges, on Fri-day, 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 re-cipients, PTK Interim Execu-tive Director Dr. Lynne Tinch-

er-Ladner wrote, “We at Phi Theta Kappa owe a tremen-dous debt of gratitude to our chapter advisers whose dedi-cated service is responsible for the success of our local chap-ters. Advisers are truly the life-blood 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.

PTK recognizes instructors

Debra Jenke, left, and Benetha Jackson, right, receive pins for their 10 years of service as advisers to the Upsilon Rho Chap-ter of Phi Theta Kappa. Dr. Patricia McKenzie presented the pins during a called faculty meeting Friday, April 1.

Alpha Beta Gamma

inducts new membersAngelina College’s Busi-

ness 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 Bur-ris, Cody Bynog, Eric Crane, Brandi Durham, Kelby Dur-ham, Allan Fiallos, Robbin Gibson, Wendy Havard and Saundra Joiner.

Other inductees are Eric Menchaca, Kristin Moore, Les-lie Morales, Paola Morales Del-gado, Ann Nix, Citlalli Perez,

Jazmin Robles Hernandez, Umeko Rodriguez, Morgan Stott, Meri Wyatt and Deana Yankie.

Guest speaker Krystal Gar-cia Riley, attorney for Skelton, Slusher, Barnhill, Watkins, Wells LPLLC, encouraged the new inductees to maintain fo-cus 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 al-ways something trying to get in your way. Perseverance will get you past every obstacle.”

By Bethany BaldwinReporter

Two members of the An-gelina College newspaper staff received awards for the on-site contests at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Asso-ciation conference in Dallas March 31 through April 2.

Both four-year and two-year colleges and universi-ties across the state partici-pated in the on-site com-petitions in which students compete under a time limit in photography, writing, broadcast announcing and design contests.

Four students partici-pated in the on-site com-petitions, and two students placed. Jennifer Harvey participated in the on-site feature writing contest and received honorable men-tion, 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 news-paper, Cheyenne Wilson placed second in the fea-ture photo contest; Jennifer Harvey received honorable mention in ad design; and Nick Sheehan, Devan Had-not and Ernesto De La Paz placed third in feature page design: other awards re-ceived 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 maga-zine, Devan Hadnot re-ceived honorable mention in picture story.

Health fair, picnic

set for campusBy 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 pro-vide 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 informa-tion about preventing alcohol, tobacco and drug addictions.

The Burke Center will pro-vide information on how to re-ceive mental health care, coun-seling 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 in-formation on health and den-tal 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 giv-ing literature about prevention of STDs.

The students of AC poten-tially 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 ill-nesses because of a lack of nu-trition or exercise. The health fair is meant to try to help stu-dents learn about these prob-lems 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 coor-dinator of the Annual Health Fair and Picnic, said.

Publications

win awards

Bethany Baldwin, left, and Jennifer Harvey

Saundra Joiner, center, receives her certificate of membership in ABG from Dr. Tom Branton, right, associate dean of the Business Division.

Page 5 - Sports: Read about the Lady Roadrunners softball team breaking a home run record.

Page 6: See photos from the production of “Showtime! 2016.”

Page 4 - Arts and Entertain-ment: Find out when the ACC Big Band performs again.

News2 The Pacer Angelina College Tuesday, April 12, 2016

AngelinaCollege

Connections

Every Monday-Bible study at theBSM, 7 p.m.

Every Tuesday-Free 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 Col-lege, 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.

20-21 - Blood Drive, north parking lot, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

21 - Roadrunner baseball vs. BPCC, 5

p.m.

21-23 - “Night Mother” by Marsha Norman, Black Box Theater, 7:30 p.m.

25 - Roadrunner baseball vs. Wharton,

5 p.m.

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.

Off-campusHappenings

Just ✳ ✳✳

By Kelsey TrianaReporter

In 1997 Brandon Elemen-tary 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 men-tors in order for them to suc-ceed.

Until last year, high school students in the Lufkin Inde-pendent School District were serving as the mentors; how-ever, last year the program was introduced to Angelina College students in Suzi Hon-eywell’s Business and Profes-sional Speech class.

The program has been in-fluential 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 grandpar-ents, all looking to help build their community.

Each student is tested indi-vidually and his or her results determine who his or her men-tor will be. Once the students are placed with their mentors, they are periodically tested on

their progress. The results from the pro-

gram show a significant im-provement 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 one-on-one time, the students in-volved have shown an increase in their self-esteem. This leads to an overall better perfor-mance from those students. A significant decrease in disci-pline referrals and truancy for the students in the program has been recorded.

Volunteers for the program are always welcome with no specific requirements request-ed 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.

AC speech studentsparticipate in H.O.S.T.S.

By Bethany BaldwinReporter

Angelina College’s financial aid department’s purpose is to serve the students, Sue Jones, director of financial aid ex-plained.

The financial aid counsel-ors 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 stu-dents.

Their office is sometimes swamped with mandatory pa-perwork they must send to the state in order for AC to receive money for financial aid for stu-dents, but the staff members are available to work with stu-dents’ schedules.

Some of the ways students can receive financial aid in-clude Pell Grants, Texas Public Education Grants, work-study programs, scholarships, the Hazlewood Act, Texas Grants and Texas Educational Oppor-tunity 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 dead-line 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 fi-nancial aid, is handled by the choice of the college or univer-sity.

The Federal Work-Study is a program funded by the federal government in which a stu-dent will work on campus for a set number of hours per week depending on funding. It is de-termined by FAFSA as well.

Many scholarships are of-fered at AC, some of which go unclaimed because no stu-dents apply for them. A large scholarship given by an out-side source is the Smith Hut-son 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 dis-charged 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 Educa-tional Opportunity Grant is for students who are entering college from nontraditional sources such as years after fin-ishing high school from home-schooling or with a GED.

Many opportunities for fi-nancial aid are available to stu-dents of all backgrounds.

Financial aid departmenthelps find ways to pay

Polk County Center

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Contributed PhotoThe 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 ser-vices; Dr. Patricia McKenzie, vice president and dean of in-struction; Kevin Wooten, director of Angelina College Polk County Center and Simon.

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.

Enjoying the spring day on March 24, Irene Acevedo sits in front of the Administration Building to study for an upcom-ing test.

Photo by Amie Silva

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What movie have you seen this spring that you enjoyed or are looking

forward to see and why?

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"I'm looking forward to watching 'Finding Dori' because I am a huge fan of Nemo. Cartoons are just so awesome to me."

La'Quisha DavisMusic Lufkin

"I saw 'Batman vs. Super-man,' and I didn't enjoy it at all because Superman dies at the end."

Keeli SandersonPhysical therapyLufkin

"I saw the movie "Risen," and I thought it was a great movie because it displayed God's love and how Jesus died for us."

Nick GarzaTeaching Houston

"I'm looking forward to see-ing "Batman vs. Superman" because we get a chance to see Superheros verse each other!"

Quenton Driver Nursing Houston

By Dylan RoarkReporter

Immigration has become a critical issue in Europe. People from all over the Middle East and Northern Africa have gone to Europe, many claim-ing to be Syrian refugees.

This situation has led to a large increase in the popula-tion of many major cities in France, Germany, Great Brit-ain 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 immi-grants who oppose these laws are also affected because they become targeted by people who stereotype the immi-grants.

This issue has caused harm to many people on both sides because of the sheer number of people arriving in the coun-tries. The nations are spending large amounts of resources to supply these people with enough food and entertain-

ment since many of the immi-grants complain about being bored in refugee centers.

Many countries, such as Sweden and Germany, are try-ing to censor and criminalize criticisms of their immigra-tion policies despite the fact that violent crime is increas-ing 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 accommo-date 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 pun-ished 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 respon-sible 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 under-stand 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 Entertainment4 The Pacer Angelina College Tuesday, April 12, 2016

AC students Ashley Henderson and Samantha Burress critique the artwork during the opening of the Visual Arts Student Exhibition on Tuesday, March 29.

The Angelina College the-atre department will pres-ent “ ‘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 pro-gram 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 liv-ing 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 Enter-tainment Digest said, “It is sparse and concise, introspec-tive and penetrating, powerful and uncompromising, intense and intelligent, warm and the-atrical. 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.

The ACC Big Band will per-form 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 gui-tar.

Jazz Appreciation Month, also known as JAM, was cre-ated at the Smithsonian National Museum of Ameri-can History in 2002 to herald and celebrate the extraordi-nary heritage and history of jazz for the entire month of April.

JAM is intended to stimu-late and encourage people of all ages to participate in jazz by studying the music, attend-ing concerts, listening to jazz on the radio and recordings, reading books about jazz and more.

Thespians to perform tragedy

ACC Big Bandconcert set

Photo by Rebecca Boles

Photo by Eduardo RamirezRetha 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.

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, Bri-anna Cryan, Richard Hard-esty, 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 Alexan-dria Robertson, Austin Ander-son, Marc Levesque, Mario Saldivar, Amie Silva, Jonanna Mason, Kristy McClain, Jus-tin 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 Reyn-olds, Steve Paul and Libby Sta-pleton 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 aes-thetic skills, enabling them to solve design problems.

Group projects with hands-on team building and indi-vidual assignments result in a dynamic exhibition at the end of each semester.

In solving the design solu-tion to any visual problem, students discover the answer is in the journey and the pro-cess, thereby, optimizing their creativity.

Marshall McLuhan, media analyst, said, “Display and design are ways that informa-tion is transmitted through the medium of material culture.”

Angelina Arts Alliance celebrates 15th anniversary

By Andrew BakerReporter

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 chil-dren; and free for AC students who show their IDs.

Located in the Angelina Center for the Arts, the Arts

Alliance has been entertaining people in the East Texas area since 2001.

It started with 181 subscrib-ers 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 per-formed 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 cel-ebrated 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 mix-ture of Appalachian bluegrass, Irish fiddle and classic themes.

Photo by Bethany BaldwinBethany Perez performs "Clair de la Lune" with Beckie Comp-ton as piano accompaniment at a music forum held in Hudgins Hall Thursday, April 7 at 10:50 a.m.

AC students present music forum

Photo by Alexandria RobertsonPhotography student Alexandria Robertson will show her photograph in the Angelina Center for the Arts April 19 to May 3.


AC to add soccer to athletic arsenal

in fall 2016

The Angelina College soft-ball program’s team record for home runs in a season lasted all of one year.

That record was re-writ-ten during the doubleheader Wednesday, April 6 against the Paris Junior College Lady Drag-ons, which the Lady Roadrun-ners won 8-0 and 12-8.

Taylor Davis homered twice in the nightcap of AC’s sweep of the Lady Dragons at Roadrun-ner 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 Road-runners accounted for five hom-ers: Davis hit two, combining with Shay Vegas for a back-to-back performance in the night-cap; 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 coun-try.

The Lady Runners handled the Lady Dragons 8-0 in five in-nings 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 shut-out while striking out two Lady

Dragons.Paris looked poise for the

split in the evening affair, small-balling 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 re-bounded with an offensive ex-plosion, scoring 10 third-inning runs before the Lady Dragons recorded an out.

Pangelinan ripped a three-run triple into the right-field corner; Kayla Lahrmann and Taylor LaGrange added RBI singles; and Hinkelman lofted a two-run homer over the left-field 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 33-14, 14-6 on the season.

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Sports

Lady Runners set new school record during Paris sweep

AC Press photoFreshman 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 dur-ing the April 6 doubleheader against Paris Junior College.

Photo by Marc LevesqueAC students and vets come together to raise money for and awareness of veterans March 24 at Shands Gymnasium.

By Garrett MooreReporter

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 free-throw 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 vet-eran team had been practicing since the beginning of the se-mester.

KTRE-TV and AC Vets had representatives attending.

Students join vets for basketball tourney

Behind a couple of one-run games featuring plenty of dra-ma throughout, the Angelina College Roadrunners earned a much-needed sweep of Bossi-er Parish Community College in the doubleheader Satur-day, 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-in-ning, walk-off 6-5 win in the nightcap. That after AC start-ing 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 eight-and-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 pitch-ing change to reliever Elijah Rodriguez, Cole Pippin ad-vanced 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 Bel-lamy 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, al-lowing 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 in-ning; 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 check-swing 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 Road-runners to 9-15, 3-6 on the season.

AC Press photosDaniel Lingua, No. 15, secures an out on second base during the March 19 baseball game.

Runners push forward with wins against Bossier Parish College


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Photos of InterestPhotos of InterestPhotos of Interest

Showtime! 2016AC Sing� s thrill audiences

with � n style of s� g, dance

Keren Debose, sophomore member, sings “Midnight Train to Georgia.” Photos by Andy Landeros

Shelby Brown, above, per-forms “When You Wish Upon a Star” during the AC Singers’ “Showtime! 2016.”

Josh Robinson, le� , sings “Cry Me a River” at the per-formance.

� e AC Singers, below, per-form “Shake, Shake, Shake” as a group dance during one of the dress rehears-als for “Showtime! 2016 in Temple � eater.


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