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Nursing Student & Faculty Loans
Student Loans
The nursing student loan program provides long-term, low-interest loans to full-time and half-time financially needy students pursuing a course of study leading to an associate or bachelor's degree in nursing. Please Note: Clinical Performance in Nursing Examination (CPNE®) eligible students will be given preference for the nursing student loan.
The interest rate for the Nursing Student Loan (NSL) is currently fixed at 5%. You will have a 9 month grace period from the time you fall below half time status, before you need to begin repayment of your Nursing Student Loan. Awards will be made on a first-come first-serve basis for an academic year until funds are expended.
Annual loan limits apply by degree program as follows:
- NSL funds for the Associates Degree program can never exceed tuition and are awarded $1,000 per term not to exceed $3,300 per year.
- CPNE eligible nursing students can be awarded the NSL up to the cost of the CPNE.
- NSL funds for the Graduate Degree program can also never exceed tuition and is awarded up to the cost of tuition for a maximum of $3,300 per year.
You are eligible to apply for this loan if you are:
• Enrolled in an associate or bachelor's degree program in nursing at Excelsior College
• A United States citizen, national, or a lawful permanent resident of:
o United States or the District of Columbia
o Commonwealths of Puerto Rico or the Marianas Islands
o Virgin Islands
o Guam
o American Samoa
o Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
o Republic of Palau
o Republic of the Marshall Islands
o Federated State of Micronesia
How to Apply
To apply for a Nursing Student Loan at Excelsior College you must first complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid form (FAFSA) to determine financial need for this loan. The Excelsior College Federal Code for this application is 014251.
Please note that upon verification of your FAFSA application, should your financial need change, you may no longer qualify for this loan.
Visit ECSI to manage your account.
See how the Loan Calculator can assist you in estimating your monthly payments for Federal education loans.
After you withdraw, graduate, or drop below half-time attendance (regardless if you plan to transfer to another school), regulations require that you complete an exit counseling session to help guide you in managing your student loans after college.
Questions? Call the financial aid office at 855-323-9235, or email email@example.com
Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP)
The Nurse Faculty Loan Program provides funds to eligible schools of nursing that offer advanced education nursing programs to prepare graduates to serve as faculty in a school of nursing.
To apply for this loan you must:
- Be a U.S. citizen or national of the U.S. or a lawful permanent resident of the U.S. and its territories.
- Be enrolled in the nursing education specialization of our Master of Science in nursing degree program at the time the NFLP loan is established.
- Maintain good academic standing while enrolled in the advanced nurse education program.
- Have no judgment liens entered against you based on the default on a Federal debt, 28 U.S.C. 3201(e).
How to apply
You must complete the following each year a loan is requested:
- Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form to calculate your eligibility.
- The NFLP Application
Acceptance Procedures
If you qualify for an NFLP loan we will notify you and provide instructions for accepting the loan. You must complete the following every academic year during which you receive an NFLP loan:
- An online entrance interview about the loan through us.
- A statement of your Rights and Responsibilities, including the service obligation and cancellation policies. You must sign this statement to indicate receipt and understanding of this information, and will receive a copy.
- A Promissory Note for each academic year's NFLP loan. You will receive a copy.
- A Loan Notification Letter in which you will accept or reject the loan offer in writing. You will receive a copy.
- Personal information to assist in loan cancellation and collection, if needed.
- Excelsior College will provide the borrower with a repayment schedule.
The NFLP loan is repayable over a 10-year period beginning 9 months after you complete the advanced nurse education program, cease to be enrolled as a student in the advanced nurse education program, or cease to be employed as full-time nurse faculty.
The school will cancel an amount up to 85% of the principal and interest of an NFLP loan over a consecutive 4-year period as follows:
- Upon your completion of each of the first, second and third year of full-time employment as a faculty member in a school of nursing, we will cancel 20% of the principal of and interest on the NFLP loan, as determined on the first day of employment.
- Upon your completion of the fourth year of full-time employment as a faculty member in a school of nursing, we will cancel 25% of the principal of and interest on the NFLP loan, as determined on the first day of employment.
The NFLP loan will bear interest on the unpaid balance of the loan at the:
- Rate of 3 percent per annum beginning 3 months after the Borrower graduates from the advanced nurse education program
- Prevailing market rate if the Borrower fails to complete the advanced nurse education program or fails to serve as full-time nursing faculty for the consecutive 4-year period.
Default by the Borrower
If you default on the loan, we must immediately stop the disbursement of the NFLP loan and begin collection on the loan. Default means:
- Failure to complete the advanced nurse education program.
- Loss of the status as a student in good academic standing.
- Failure to become employed and maintain employmdent as a full-time faculty member at a school of nursing. "Full-time" has the meaning used by the employing school of nursing for its faculty. Failure to provide certification of employment will evidence default.
- Failure to make payments as required by the NFLP borrower's Promissory Note and repayment agreement.
- NSL funds for the Associates Degree program can never exceed tuition and are awarded $1,000 per term not to exceed $3,300 per year.
- CPNE eligible nursing students can be awarded the NSL up to the cost of the CPNE.
- NSL funds for the Graduate Degree program can also never exceed tuition and is awarded up to the cost of tuition for a maximum of $3,300 per year.
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Jacks win Showdown over USD, 72-60
The South Dakota State women's basketball team led wire to wire, defeating in-state rival South Dakota, 72-60, Sunday afternoon at Frost Arena as part of the South Dakota Showdown Series presented by South Dakota Corn.
In winning their fifth consecutive game, the Jackrabbits improved to 11-5 overall and took over sole possession of first place in The Summit League with a 3-0 record. The win also was No. 301 in head coach Aaron Johnston's career, tying him with Nancy Neiber (301-140 record in 16 seasons from 1984-2000) for most victories in program history.
USD fell to 7-9 overall, 2-1 in league play.
The Jackrabbits took a 3-0 lead on the opening possession of the game as Gabby Boever sank a three-pointer from the left wing. SDSU led 10-2 after a Boever layup at the 16:43 mark before the Coyotes got back to within five, 12-7, two minutes later on a three-pointer by Tempestt Wilson.
SDSU methodically continued to build its lead, hitting double figures at 28-17 on two Megan Waytashek free throws with 4:25 to play.
Wilson kept the Coyotes from falling farther behind, scoring 11 of her team-high 19 points in the first half as the two squads traded baskets the remainder of the half. SDSU led 36-25 at intermission.
After USD trimmed the deficit to eight, 41-33, three and a half minutes into the second half, the Jackrabbits countered with a 7-0 spurt to build their largest lead of the game. Ashley Eide, who scored a game-high 22 points, started the run with a basket, followed by a three-pointer from the top of the key by Hannah Strop and a basket in the paint by Katie Lingle.
The Coyotes got back to within eight on three occasions in the final seven minutes, but SDSU answered the run each time. Waytashek punctuated her 15-point afternoon with a layup and three-pointer in the closing minutes and Eide iced the game with four free throws down the stretch.
The Jackrabbits effectively used the free throw line to their advantage, ending the day 20-of-25 at the stripe, 80 percent. From the field, SDSU made 24-of-50 attempts, 48 percent, but was only 4-of-18 on three-point attempts.
USD, which also received 15 points from Nicole Seekamp and 14 from Polly Harrington, ended the afternoon 23-of-53 from the field, 43.4 percent. The Coyotes were only 1-of-9 from three-point range and converted 13-of-18 free throw attempts, 72.2 percent.
Rebounding was nearly even, with USD holding a 31-29 advantage. Wilson led all players with seven rebounds for the Coyotes, while Leah Dietel and Waytashek paced SDSU with six boards each.
The Jackrabbits are slated to play their first Summit League road game of the season Thursday at Oakland. Tipoff is set for 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time (5:30 p.m. Central) in Rochester, Mich.
NOTES: SDSU leads the all-time series, 49-22 ... the Jackrabbits have won 30 of the last 33 meetings, including three of four as Division I rivals ... SDSU has won 18 consecutive games against the Coyotes at Frost Arena ... South Dakota State leads the Showdown Series, which is a year-long all-sports competition against USD, 5-4 ... Eide reached the 20-point mark for the fourth time in five games ... Waytashek and Eide each reached double figures for the 12th time this season ... SDSU is 6-0 this season when leading at the half ... the Jackrabbits have shot at least 48 percent from the field in all three Summit League games this season ... Johnston has a career record of 301-104 (.743 winning percentage) in his 13 seasons at SDSU, including a 78-15 record in Summit League games ... the Jackrabbits improved to 7-2 at Frost Arena this season ... Waytashek was 6-for-6 at the free throw line, upping her season percentage to a team-best 81 percent (47-of-58) ... SDSU committed 13 turnovers compared to 16 by the Coyotes ... the Jackrabbits held a 17-10 advantage in bench points, led by Katie Lingle's nine ... attendance was 3,045


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Victim of metal theft tracks down suspects himself
EUGENE, Ore. -- Rod Blomberg arrived at work Monday morning and found his livelihood torn to pieces.
So he found the guys who did it.
He hasn't found hope that catching the crooks will bring a halt to his headaches, however.
Burglars tore apart the machine shop at Blomberg's Astro Enterprises Research and Development overnight.
"They stole all the wiring out of the building," Blomberg said, "ripped all the machinery out, ripped all the wiring out of the machinery, and cut all the catalytic converters out."
The crooks were after scrap metal, a crime that is on the rise and victimizes almost anyone: motorists who find the catalytic converters removed from their parked cars, electric utilities targeted for spools of wire, and businesses like Astro Enterprises.
"It's probably going to get them $20 to $30," Ben Hall with the Eugene Police Department said of the break-in at Astro, "and they probably did $25,000 to $30,000 worth of damage to do it."
The crime concerns the Eugene Water and Electric Board, a victim of metal theft. The utility advocates for strengthening existing laws about scrap metal recycling.
"The metal recyclers would have to pay with a check and it would have to go to a specific address," explained Lance Robertson with EWEB. "So that cuts down on this stealing by folks who might be transients who are really just trying to get money for drugs or other kinds of things."
Business owner tracks down suspects
Metal theft plagues utilities like EWEB and businesses like Astro. This was the third time in four months that thieves broke into Astro.
This time, Blomberg fought back.
"I went to all the scrap yards, and then I talked to people and I came down here and walked through and there they were," he said.
Blomberg found four guys in a field behind a store. The men were stripping wires and breaking apart items to get at the copper wiring inside.
"I'm ready to kill 'em," Blomberg said of his discovery. "That's what I told the cops: if they don't get down here and do something, I'm going in there."
Police arrived and caught the thieves in the act.
"We stopped and detained one person in the process of stripping wire," said Hall with EPD. "Two other people who saw us coming ran off into the bushes."
Officers were using canine units to try and track three other suspects down.
"Basically they're taking it back here, breaking off all the plastic pieces and getting out all the metal pieces so they can sell them for scrap," Hall said. "They took every piece of the machine, every electrical component, and smashed it will a hammer to get the little pieces of copper out of it."
While police are still searching for the suspects, Blomberg wonders what good an arrest will mean at a time when Lane County's jail releases most non-violent offenders.
"These guys will be out today if they even go to jail," he said, "and it don't mean nothing to them because they'll go out and start doing it again."


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They have beta tested a number of different ways for users to be able to do this and have also have been able to make some serious improvements in a number of user feedback on average that they receive. Being able to put together an application that is able to ask users about their favorite of anything is something that could seriously yield a lot of information. It can also yield them a lot of advertising dollars if they are able to go about it in the right way. User interface design is something that is becoming huge talking point within the mobile community over the course of the last few years, and it appears that this application is looking to really perform in moving forward in a way that made sense for everyone.
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Nickelback Live At Wembley Arena
Posted on February 12, 2008Last night's Nickelback show at Wembley Arena in London sold out, selling an astounding 11,000 tickets. Prior to the show announcements were overheard warning ticket hopefuls that counterfeits were on sale such was the demand!
With astonishing pyrotechnics for the entire duration of the set, and fireworks(!) to conclude, not to mention every soul in the building singing along to 'Hero' and 'How You Remind Me', and hearing a brand new as-yet-unrecorded Nickelback song it really was quite a show to remember.
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LaSalle Generating Station Unit 1 automatically shut down at 7:18 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 1, when a main power transformer tripped off-line.
MARSEILLES, Ill - LaSalle Generating Station Unit 1 automatically shut down at 7:18 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 1, when a main power transformer tripped off-line.
A main power transformer is a piece of plant equipment that raises the voltage of electricity before it is sent to the electrical grid.
The plant responded as expected, safely and without incident. While the cause of the shutdown is under investigation, station operators are focusing on a possible fault on the transformer.
Electrical power outages from the current winter storm are not related to the Unit 1 shutdown.
LaSalle Station is located approximately 75 miles southwest of Chicago. With both units at full power, the site produces 2,286 megawatts net, which is enough electricity for 2.3 million homes.
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Yearly Archives: 2010
Patrick James Murphy
September 9, 2010 | Category: In MemoriamOn September 9, 2010, prominent attomey, golfer, motorcyclist and fisherman, Patrick James Murphy, concluded his grand tour through the ancient and modem wonders of this world, passing away during a fishing and golfing trip in San Jose, Costa Rica. He was just days short of his 57th birthday.A skilled and respected trial attomey, Pat served... Read more
Robert Nelson-Kortland
March 12, 2010 | Category: In MemoriamBeloved CCBA member and supporter of the Shoes That Fit Program has passed away. A memorial service for Robert Nelson-Kortland was held on Friday March 12, 2010 at the S. Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery located at 1900 Buchanan Blvd. in Boulder City. In lieu of flowers, Bob's family suggests contributions in his honor to the... Read more


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Misty Sherman, Dustin Taylor
Misty Ann Sherman & Dustin Dean Taylor are pleased to announce there marriage on the 21st day of September 2013 at Carbon Country Club in Price.
You are invited to join us at the reception held in their honor at 7 p.m. parents of the bride, Carl & Cindy Sherman. Parents of the groom, Dean & Cindy Taylor, Bunny Shelton.
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Free van transportation - The Disabled American Veterans provides free van transportation to the George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center in Salt Lake City for veterans with medical appointments from Price and surrounding areas. Also, the program needs volunteer drivers to help us meet our transporting needs. Please call Veda Jones to become a volunteer driver! For more information call 613-9537 or call Heidi at the VAMC 800-613-4012, ext. 2003.
Marine Corps League - meets the second Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the Price American Legion Hall, 27 North 100 West. For membership information, contact David Brewer at 472-8757.
Helper American Legion Auxiliary - meets the fourth Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. For information, contact Pat Scherschel at 472-8203.
VFW - Post hours are Monday - Saturday from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Meetings are the second Thursday of the month at 7 p.m. Games are on Sunday at 1 p.m. For information, call the post at 637-7424.
VFW Ladies Auxiliary - meets the second Friday of the month at 3 p.m.
Price American Legion Post 3 - meets the first and third Thursday of the month at 7 p.m. at 27 North 100 West.
American Legion Auxiliary - meets the third Tuesday of the month. For information, contact Veloy Wilder at 637-0290.


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UW-LA CROSSE Introduction to Montessori Education
This class is geared for those who want a greater understanding of Montessori or who desire to work with young children, such as day care providers and homeschooling folks, as well as experienced teachers who wish to understand the underlying principles of the Montessori method of education.
UW-L REGISTRATION ONLINE: https://apply.wisconsin.edu
WHEN: Meet weekly every Monday, 6-9 pm for 5 weeks starting January 6th and ending Feb. 3rd.
WHERE: Viroqua Middle School, 115 Education Avenue, Room 261
INSTRUCTOR: Nancy Schaitel, retired AMS Montessori teacher, holds a WI teaching license, has 15 years experience in the Montessori classroom with 4-6 year olds, former Co-Executive Director of Wisconsin Montessori Association, Montessori consultant for start-up of Montessori charter schools.
Session 1: Expectations and Overview of the Course; History of Maria Montessori and the Method; Brain-based education and how that translates into the Montessori classroom; school visitation expectations
Session 2: Practical Life area; Discussion on chapters 1+ 2; let me know what school they are visiting/when
Session 3: Sensorial area; Discussion of chapters 3 and 4; Presentation of PL material
Session 4: Math area; Discussion of chapter 5; Presentation of Sensorial material
Session 5: Language area; Discussion of Visitations to Montessori schools; Presentation of Math or Language material
- Attendance and participation in discussions are both mandatory.
- All assignments will be completed and handed in on time.
- Visitation to a Montessori Children's House classroom will be set up and carried out by the student.
- Handmade materials will be purchased and presented on time by the student.
- Purchase of the book for the class, "Understanding Montessori," by Maren Schmidt, will be the responsibility of the student (about $10 from Amazon or www.Marenschmidt.com or B& N or Montessori Services)
UW-L REGISTRATION ONLINE: https://apply.wisconsin.edu
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I was just pointed, by Daftbeaker, at this wonderful person form the US: Adreas Moritz; http://www.ener-chi.com/
Basically, another stinking pile of alternative/homeopathic/holistic menure.
I'm thinking of contacting, and pointing him at the flaw in his theory :
he claims that all know diseases, depressions, wars and climate change are caused by "energy imbalance" of the body, which can be cured by buying one of his pebbles or vieweing one of his pictures. This is only partially right. He is correct, but he has missed the greater underlying cause of the energy imbalance:
Noodly Appendage Touch Deprivation, or NATD.
This underlying, spiritual cause of damage can easily be cured by, among others, wearing an eyepatch (order at http://www.buyaneyepatch.com) or clothing showing His Image (order at http://www.venganza.org), by eating lots of pasta and by growing dreadlocks (representations of the Noodly Appendage).
As for the "ionized stones" mr. Moritz is so keen on sharing with the world, they do have some effect, but the effect would be much greater if, instead of ordinary pebbles, one were to use the Most Holy Meatballs.
Any more suggestions on this?


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Steve Pill is doing the things he and his wife of 31 years always planned to do when they retired, but he is doing them alone.
Every trip to the grocery or hardware store reminds him of his wife, Barbara Pill, the Brevard County sheriff's deputy fatally shot during a traffic stop one year ago Wednesday.
Over their three decades of marriage, Steve and Barbara planned to retire and then buy, renovate and sell homes. Since his wife's death, Steve has purchased three project homes; one closed last week. He knows Barbara probably wouldn't approve of the "cabbage something or other" green he painted in one kitchen.
"If she was here, she'd be helping me," he said in an interview with Local 6 News partner Florida Today. "I would have someone that could help me do the color coordinating better ... She always said I have no color-coordination gene in my body."
Signs of Barbara are all around his own Palm Bay home: a shadow box with her badge and the flag that covered her casket, a poster and quilt with pictures of her smiling. The outgoing message on the answering machine still has Barbara's voice.
Steve finds it comforting, though not all family members feel that way.
"I've still got Barb's voice on the answering machine, and (her father) won't call the house," he said. "It just, it brings back the loss of his daughter. His only daughter."
Steve's eyes betray his tough appearance, watering as he talks about Barbara. He's tried packing some of her clothes from their bedroom closet, but can't bring himself to get rid of them.
His voice caught at times as he remembered the deadly events of March 6, 2012, and when he talked about his 2-year-old granddaughter, who will never get to know her grandmother.
"That bothers me a lot," he said, standing in the garage where he's growing several potted orchids — one of Barbara's favorite flowers — all offshoots of the first plant the couple was given as a wedding gift nearly 32 years ago.
Barbara Pill, 52, was the first Brevard County law enforcement officer to be shot and killed in the line of duty in 16 years.
"Everyone misses Barbara," Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said. "She wasn't just a great deputy, she was a special friend to lot of people in our community ... All of us take that special memory of Barbara and use that to drive us in the job we do."
Her life will be honored at the Brevard County Sheriff's Office north precinct in Titusville, a new facility to be named after her. A groundbreaking ceremony and moment of silence at 11:13 a.m. — the minute Barbara was shot — are planned for Wednesday.
"Just having it named after her means a lot, means a lot to me and the boys," Steve said. "Everything that's been done through the Sheriff's Office and through the public themselves, what they've done, has just been phenomenal."
Both of the Pills' sons, Jeremy and Ryan, work for the Sheriff's Office. At the time of his mother's death, Ryan Pill worked for Melbourne Village Police Department. He was hired by the Sheriff's Office in May, and now patrols the same precinct his mother worked.
"Every day I tell him, be careful out there," Steve said. "Both of them."
Steve said both men emulate their mother in their proactive approach. He said it's hard for the boys to talk about their mother's death.
"They miss her tremendously and so do I," Steve said. "We were all very close, so that part is a big void. But we all know that we have to go on with our lives."
Steve tries to keep busy to avoid constantly thinking about the events that devastated his family, the Sheriff's Office and the entire Brevard community one year ago. Not all days are easy.
"There's mornings I get up that it takes me a little bit to get motivated to do anything," he said. "That's one thing, Barb, at least I had somebody to push me. 'You gotta get this done.'"
He's anticipating the trials of Brandon L. Bradley, 23, and Andria M. Kerchner, 22, who are accused of murder, robbery and other counts in the deputy's death. The duo is accused of stealing items from a Melbourne area motel before they were stopped by Pill. Bradley allegedly opened fire. His companion, Kerchner, was in the passenger seat.
Attorneys on each case said a trial could be a year or more away. Randy Moore, chief assistant public defender who is working on Bradley's case, said after a hearing last month it is possible the trial may be moved to another county in order to get an unbiased jury.
Steve said he'd like to see Kerchner, who was a passenger in the car when Barbara was shot, get life in prison.
"It will be some closure once I know that they've been found guilty and convicted," he said. "That will be a big step in closure."
"Him, I'd like to see the death penalty, which is what they're going for. He had no remorse for her life of anybody else's, so I don't feel sorry for him.
"I'd like to be the one to do the injection. I'd probably have to fight my father-in-law for that spot."


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This week, after a frustrating match in Columbus, it was revealed that the Fire are so decimated by injuries the assistant coaches had to fill in a practice scrimmage last week to make up numbers. Granted, even past their playing shape, the coaches C.J. Brown, Clint Mathis, and Brian McBride would win most 3v3 tourneys in this city today, but it shows just how handcuffed Frank Yallop's roster can get when the injury bug hits.
Yallop said he won't use injuries as an excuse, which is great, that's what every coach says, but I don't like it. I think that injury is a great excuse. It's not an excuse for playing poorly, because every excuse for playing poorly sucks. Rather, injuries can be excuses for other things. For roster shake ups, for weird substitutions, for tactical changes, for second chances, and so on.
QUESTION: Would Rookie of the Year candidate Harry Shipp have gotten this much tick to prove himself if Alex and Dilly Duka weren't hurt to start the season?
Injuries are totally natural and can be a blessing when they force a team to break from what's comfortable, but basically they're unpredictable and infuriating. I mean, every team and player has them, but no team or player has them exactly the same. So it's the way teams, coaches and players deal with their inevitability that makes injuries what they are as well as an interesting excuse.
Once they hit, do you go to the market to find replacements or call on young players? Do you stack the squad with depth at the beginning of the season, or hope to ride out the injuries when they come? What about the players with previous injury issues - do you monitor their minutes? Alter their training regimen?
So far, I've found Yallop's approach to injuries fascinating and impressive. The work he did to improve the squad this year is a real strength. Remember that after the frustrating results vs. Philadelphia last season, we were talking about the Patrick Nyarko/Chris Rolfe striking partnership.
This Fire team's depth should be able to deal with an injury bug and the kinds of personnel changes a full season requires. That's why it was nice to see Dilly Duka get a run out on Saturday, even if he's short of match fitness, and Grant Ward get a chance to show why his name caused so much excitement during preseason.
All year, Yallop has rewarded players for playing well, simple as that. So you know that any injury also means an opportunity for someone else. When preseason starters like Gonzalo Segares and Alex were hit by injuries, they were replaced by rookies Greg Cochrane and Shipp, who've proved themselves to varying degrees.
On Saturday the Fire were without Alex, Bakary Soumare, Patrick Nyarko, Mike Magee, and Lovel Palmer, for reasons as diverse as calf soreness to kidney stones. Good luck preparing for those scenarios in preseason video sessions.
The other interesting thing about injuries is that they're a totally natural thing. Their existence is the proof that what we watch and turn over as pastime is actually an excruciating tug of war between physical performance and physical possibility. Somewhere in between there is the place where muscles and ligaments break down, where a body suffers. Injury bugs are a reminder that we're watching athletes push themselves to their limits.
Ben Schuman-Stoler is a contributor to Chicago-Fire.com. Follow him on Twitter @bsto.
We'll probably never know what was said at halftime in the away locker room this weekend in Harrison, NJ. We won't know if things were kicked or thrown, if team leaders screamed, or if, as is Frank Yallop's style, calm orders were dispatched.
What we do know, though, is that players after the game said they came out focused on putting more pressure on NYRB's back line. And we know that whatever was said got the Fire refocused enough to turn around a 2-1 halftime score line, score four goals in 19 minutes and overcome a frustrating start to the season to get their first win.
But that talk will go down in the history of halftime talks because whether or not Yallop Al Pacino'd the squad, they came out re-pumped up to the point where Quincy Amarikwa was ready to do this:
Amarikwa was ready to throw his face in front of Luis Robles's clearance if it meant continuing to pressure NYRB and continuing to build for the Fire the advantage they eventually, if not exactly calmly, rode to three points.
As much as I'd like to picture Yallop standing on chairs and screaming, there are other signs that point to a different kind of leadership at halftime. Look at Mike Magee here, barely five minutes into the second half, extolling the guys to push up and stay up. His eyes are popping out of his forehead!
One of the most competitive guys in the league, Magee could smell NYRB's weakness after Amarikwa tied the game at 2-2. And Magee did his job after the Fire built their three goal cushion, helping through the midfield in the game's dying moments to help the Fire fight off NYRB and finish off the win.
What all this points to is that whatever really went down at halftime, the orders were clearly to pressure NYRB's back line and close out the game. The mistakes Magee, Amarikwa, Patrick Nyarko, and game hero Harry Shipp squeezed out of that back line were exactly what Yallop expected.
The true magic of the situation was that the orders were delivered in a way to convey a strategic, tactics-based message with enough emotional weight to overshadow the recent disappointments in the team's mind. It led to eye-popping bodily sacrifice for the team. Everyone came together for the best 20 minute spell of the season, and it led to a deserved win.
Ben Schuman-Stoler is a contributor to Chicago-Fire.com. Follow him on Twitter @bsto.
Michael Cox is a writer and the man behind Zonal Marking, the tactics nerd utopia of soccer content. For years, ZM's straight-to-the-point style has illuminated the tactical sub-matter of important matches and identified the trends dictating soccer set-ups around the world.
We went back and forth on the 4-1-4-1 formation, national trends, and MLS's best tactical role model.
Ben Schuman-Stoler: The Fire have experimented this year with a 4-1-4-1 formation, which has morphed in certain times into the more familiar 4-4-2, 4-3-3, 4-5-1, and 4-2-3-1 set ups. Can you say a little bit about the 4-1-4-1 in general? What are its weaknesses and strengths? Are there any teams in recent memory you can recall employing it consistently?
Michael Cox: The 4-1-4-1 isn't particularly fashionable, but part of this is because managers will always call it a 4-3-3 - a 4-3-3 is basically a 4-1-4-1 when it's without the ball. But 4-3-3 sounds much more exciting, so you'll rarely get a 4-1-4-1 hailed as a brilliant system.
The major problem is the fact the lone striker can become isolated, although the opportunity to get midfield runners forward means this shouldn't be too much of a problem if he can drop deep, link play and hold up the ball. That said, the importance of the midfield runners getting forward means the holding player has a huge responsibility without the ball, and can often become overrun at defensive transitions, particularly if the opposition get two players either side of him - he doesn't have the comfort of a partner.
BSS: Is there also anything different a back four (in particular the outside backs) have to keep in mind in a 4-1-4-1 compared to a 4-4-2 or 4-2-3-1?
MC: I think the major difference is that the full-backs have to be able to track the opposition's winger inside. If you're in a 4-2-3-1 and you're dealing with an opposition 4-2-3-1, your two holding midfielders can deal with (a) the opposition number ten and (b) a David Silva-like character drifting inside. With the 4-1-4-1 he'll become overloaded, so your full-backs have more responsibility to move inside and stop him.
BSS: What are your thoughts regarding national-specific or league-specific tactics? Do they ever develop naturally and therefore uniquely for that country/league? Could the ideas developing in the MLS affect the U.S. National Team, and ever add to their chances of international success? In what way has MLS changed or not changed your understanding or appreciation of American soccer and tactics therein?
MC: This is an interesting question. I think it's generally top-down, to be honest - the national side gets success and influences lots of the domestic sides. The best example is Chile - Bielsa went there before the last World Cup, brought in 3-3-1-3 and heavy pressing, and that trickled down to the domestic sides, particularly Universidad de Chile. Now they all play that way, Chile have an identity, and Uni's old coach Sampoali is now the Chile manager, picking lots of his old players for the national side while simultaneously continuing with the Bielsa approach. I gather something similar has happened in Ghana with 4-2-3-1 and counter-attacking play. Really, I think the best way for the USA to arrive at something similar is for Jurgen Klinsmann to come up with something interesting, which then trickles down. It would be tough for him to accommodate MLS-specific tactics on the world stage against more 'advanced' European approaches.
BSS: I'm curious about the ways in which tactical ideas travel across countries. Recently Manchester City's American project nabbed Jason Kreis from Salt Lake City. He's currently doing 6 months at the Etihad to learn and bring their ideas to the States. What do you think MLS's opportunity is with regards to "market research"? How are tactical ideas developed on their own in certain leagues vs. affected by worldwide trends or coaching lineage?
MC: Hmm, that's such a tough question, you could probably write a whole book about it, to be honest. I think the main thing to consider here is that ideas now travel faster than ever before because of the internet etc, and also because coaches and players travel to different countries more than ever before. The globalization of football in the past 15 years or so means theoretically, there should be less boundaries in this respect.
To me it seems logical for an MLS club to look to the Premier League. American soccer seems quite physical and in a certain sense quite basic tactically, and of the major European leagues the Premier League is probably quite a good fit.
It's part of the magic of footy mythology that even with 22 players on the field, every game seems to center around the actions of a few trolls or the one great Prince. The other 20 or so characters stay in the background. But what makes the mythology live and move through time is that inevitably the seemingly inconsequential side characters develop their own story.
In Chicago, right now, that story is Quincy Amarikwa. For five years, his role in the fight scene was as a spear-holding extra, stabbing at people now and then as the camera panned by overhead. But now, the guy is hot. He's wearing face paint and screaming at people from his horse. I mean he's not only, finally, getting a run of starts, but he's already matched his top goals number in April. He's got not one but two hashtags of his own, he's running an internet marketing consultant business, he's teaching Sparky how to do laundry, and he's even risen to Fantasy fame.
After another goal in the Battle of the Franks in Montreal, people all over the league are taking notice. Not that Amarikwa is hiding. That's not his style. Saturday's matchup against former manager Frank Klopas brought a lot of cute nostalgic quotes, but Amarikwa was the only one who cut through the platitudes, saying, "Obviously it was nice to show him why I should have played more last year."
It's something that Amarikwa is used to, this approach of proving yourself. In a recent interview, he explained his approach as a substitute: You got five minutes to prove it, so prove it. Maybe that's why his substitute appearances were always marked by an almost impossible level of energy, physicality, hustle, and pace. He might only have five minutes, but he would bust those five minutes apart.
You can see as much in highlights from his past appearances. Turning guys, taking people on, ripping shots - no matter who the great Prince was in a particular game, Amarikwa demanded your attention. He was jumping in front of the camera, demanding his own scene. In San Jose, Colorado, and Toronto, fans loved the guy because he scared opponents - he's direct, pesky, tireless, sharp elbowed, and jacked. In his long haired days he looked like a Samoan rugby player. With his low center of gravity, giant thighs, and changes of direction, he now resembles an NFL fullback.
The problem was goals. Amarikwa was never a prolific scorer. Scoring 4 goals in 5 seasons as a striker isn't enough to get yourself a starting job.
And so, for five years, his MLS job description read something like this: "Impact substitute, sparkplug; i.e. ability to change game and create chances - not necessarily the one to take those chances."
That is, until last year, when Amarikwa was already on his way to dropping the spear and grabbing his own horse. The two bikes against Montreal (HE BIKES WHEN HE WANTS) may have been overshadowed by the excruciating miss in Toronto in September, but he continued to impress. His scoring rate per 90 minutes shot upwards.
Instead of contributing intangibles, he was contributing goals. The flying side volley against RSL helped turn the Fire's season around, and looking back now, it feels like an apt little analogy for his career so far. Because at first glance you watch it and you say, ok, a nice athletic goal late in a game, those are important. Good work. But then you watch the replay and you realize just how quick, how airborne, how technical the finish was. And you say to yourself, wait a minute, wow, that's a real goal scorer's goal.
This year, Amarikwa has started the season with three goals and an assist in five starts. He's the hottest player in the squad. And with manager Frank Yallop rewarding players' good form with minutes, Amarikwa is currently keeping DP Juan Luis Anangono on the bench.
It looks like Amarikwa found the efficacy he was lacking. He's transformed his old five minute blitz - all fight, opportunism, and "eff you" - into a 90 minute attack. It's the step we all wanted, and his mouthwatering partnership with Mike Magee is only just beginning.
What it means is that now, suddenly, the former side character Amarikwa isn't only creeping into the Prince's stories. He's developing a myth of his own.
Ben Schuman-Stoler is a contributor to Chicago-Fire.com. Follow him on Twitter @bsto.
Outside a bar at halftime, one team was up a man and four goals. The crowd outside was split, not between teams but between ideals. Who would go back to watch the second half? It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon at the beginning of spring and a few of us wanted to go sit in a park. The game was all but over. But for some reason, everybody followed one guy back in, back to their seats at the bar. "It's part of the contract," he said. "It's what we do."
What contract? It's the contract we sign as fans. The contract to watch and be a part of the sport in America. But what responsibility do we have to the game? What do we owe it? Are we ever allowed our Saturday afternoons?
My annual fan contracts have evolved over the years with regards to the Fire and the sport of soccer in general. Whereas I used to sign up for the atmosphere, or the results themselves, now I sign for the athletics, the ideas, and the story of the competition. Sometimes, I even take my Saturday afternoons soccer-free.
I don't have to sing or cry anymore. I salute those fans, those who sign the emotional fan contract. They're stronger than I. They're the ones singing at Toyota Park against Red Bulls in the cold. They're the ones proving the word fan comes from fanatic. They're the ones spending hours upon hours on tifo or travelling all over the country, dealing with airports and buses and Kansas City. Those fans carry the club. They're as much a part of the team as the players.
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But then, I'm not one of them. I'm a different kind of fan. I'm a supporter, in the true sense of that word. I want the team to do well and I want to support it towards its goals. My contract with the team is to be a part of that progression.
Nowadays, that supporter contracts costs me two things: my money and my time. I pay to watch the games and I give my time to watch and read about my team.
But as a supporter, I can't stand the occasional debates about who the "real" fans are. They're tiresome. The truth is that it's simply difficult in MLS to figure out the "right" way to support your team. Young, and comprised of mostly young organizations, it's a unique league in the world of soccer. Doesn't it come with a different kind of contract for us to sign now as fans, supporters, consumers, and participants?
In MLS, there is for us American soccer fans the first chance in a generation to support our local team. Our team in our city. Our contract with the league and our team in the league is about something bigger. It's about the idea of growing something that is ours.
Our participation, now, is the basis of American soccer.
It's in that umbrella of growth, that fungal tarpaulin, under which we all stand together. Hipster craft beer MLS fans, soccer moms, whatever. We all struggle with our responsibility, caught between fandom and supporterdom, between Saturday afternoons and the bar - but that's ok. That's part of the uniqueness of our American soccer contract. We get to carve out our own relationships with the team and the league. Like a cartoon rumble, we define it as it defines us, and we roll together down the hill.
Some of us will go to the stadium once a year for the tailgate while others go every week out of unshakeable loyalty to the badge; some of us will go to see a new tactical development while others want to see a guy they played against in high school - the point is that we're all there. Supporters and fans, side by side.
In the end all the arguments about MLS fans are pointless because there is only one way to watch the game. It's the way that makes you want to watch, follow, and maybe buy a shirt or a ticket. That's the way we build this thing - so go and find your way.
Ben Schuman-Stoler is a contributor to Chicago-Fire.com. Follow him on Twitter @bsto.
One took over the defending continental champions. Despite his 15 trophies as a manager, there were questions about how much better he could make them. Two-thirds through the season, he's taken the champions to a new level of excellence.
Another replaced a legend in taking over the league champs. His experience and consistency made him a safe choice, but how would he lead the club into a new generation? Today the team sits seven places out of first.
The third assumed leadership of a historically successful club dealing with a few tough years. Fans wondered what would come next as contracts turned over and a new crop of youngsters presented themselves. With five coaching trophies, he's highly knowledgeable with regards to the competition and what works in the league, but fans eagerly wait to see how he'll plot the path forwards.
Which of the above new coaches came to the Fire? If you separated Frank Yallop from Pep Guardiola at Bayern Munich and David Moyes at Manchester United, good for you.
Coaching changes are so commonplace that they're not in and of themselves particularly remarkable. In the Barclay's Premier League so far in the 2013-2014 season, already five managers have been fired; that's on top of the six managers who left clubs before the season already started. That means more than half the teams changed managers this year.
And in general with sports, personnel changeover is as much a part of the grind as winning and losing. It's as much if not more common in the current adolescent stage of MLS, where parity dominates, new teams are forthcoming, and personnel rules and financial regulation necessitate almost constant player movement.
But what do the changes mean for the Fire?
This year is a new beginning. Even though the ownership and front office maintain a steadfast commitment to the club's history and traditions, the technical staff was overhauled leading into the 2014 season. MLS legend Frank Yallop replaced Fire legend Frank Klopas. He brought C.J. Brown, another Fire legend, along with, and added assistant coach Clint Mathis on top.
And the change touched the players as well. Some consistent starters from seasons past, like Austin Berry and Jalil Anibaba, are gone. Led by Harry Shipp and Benji Joya, a new crop of youngsters are fighting veterans for their places. Meanwhile, except for Sean Johnson in goal, Jeff Larentowicz in the middle, and the reigning MVP Mike Magee (whenever he's back fit) up top, every place in the side is up for grabs.
Things change, okay, but this is now a totally different Fire team than the one we've seen the past few years. New players and new management means a new culture, new approaches both on and off the field. A 4-1-4-1 formation is in the works. But the gutsy 10-man point in Portland and loss at Chivas showed that old habits take time to correct.
Even though the Fire were frustrated to miss the playoffs a few times in recent years, they have the league MVP and enough player talent on paper to threaten the top teams in MLS. Yet by overhauling the technical staff, the Fire signaled a loftier statement: Being mediocre is not good enough, no matter how much successful history the club has.
Without going into huge detail about the strategic plans, the Fire players have said that this preseason felt different, that Yallop was fostering a different environment than Klopas's.
It's important because whether we like it or not, this season will be defined by the changes the Fire made this offseason. Change is here.
The questions though: How much do you change, and how much do you keep? What is actually new? How exactly do you convey and impose a plan without sacrificing whatever was working before? What effect can a plan even have if there are many unpredictable and external issues?
It doesn't look like Yallop is going to blow everyone away with some avant garde tactical system. Although the lineups have changed, in the first two games we saw tactical variations of familiar set ups, even if the advertised 4-1-4-1 was never totally deployed. We saw a cautious balance between MLS veterans and excited young guns.
In the media, we've seen a focus on working hard and coming together as a team - like the tactics and team selection, it's a communications strategy that isn't going to draw too much attention.
But don't let the low key approach fool you. Yallop's project with the Fire is massive. Whether he ends up tearing through the league like Guardiola, or taking a few steps back, like Moyes, certainly Yallop's plan must be taken seriously for the long term. Change might be part of the game, but plans in this game only work when they're given time to come to.
There were shots off the post, a disallowed goal, more Sean Johnson saves, the dramatic contexts of playoff contention and the last regular season home game of the season - Saturday's win had a handful of talking points, but it had really only one truly interesting scene: Mike Magee's game winning penalty.
Because despite the atmosphere and everything that was at stake, the game, in fact was pretty flat. Maybe it was the rain-soaked field, maybe it was a bit of nerves but Fire fans had to be uncomfortable when they saw the first 10 minutes with little of the urgency, high pressure, and high defensive line that pushed the team to those two huge away wins in D.C. and Dallas. Toronto was finding gaps all over the field to exploit and if it wasn't for such bad finishing by Robert Earnshaw, they would've been in front.
The Fire grew into the game, however, and were in control when Magee scored the winning penalty. Then, as we've seen for the past month or so, the Fire managed the remainder of the and took all the points.
So maybe it's good that it wasn't a spectacle of high drama. Maybe it was just a professional victory -- a cold blooded three point snatch.
But then there was Magee's PK.
Just a few weeks ago, Magee hit the crossbar with what would've been a game winning PK against Montreal. It cost the Fire two crucial points. "Tonight's on me," he said after the game. "It won't be the last one I miss but I'm confident taking them and I'll bury the next one."
It's more or less the approach you expect from someone leading the league in goals and there aren't many better opportunities to pad your stats than from the penalty spot.
And yet, and YET, Saturday's PK was terrifying. I didn't like the way Magee looked, I didn't like his set up. He kept wiping his hands, and he started his run-up exactly at the whistle. You can often tell if a player's going to score their PK based on their face, their calm, their approach, and their cool. We all know Magee is cool in front of goal, but wouldn't the Montreal miss be on his mind? There he was, right in front of Section 8, back in his home city, a stadium chanting MVP - it was a moment, just a second or two, where some people might have thought about the whole chaos of the season. All the missed chances, all the posts they hit, all the points they dropped, all the mistakes and antagonism and pressure.
It happened so fast. Magee didn't let the moment fester. He knew what he was going to do. He knows where the goal is. He wipes his hands, he tugs his shorts down a bit, he looks at the ref waiting for the whistle. When it comes he leaps off the line like a 5k start, skips a bit to the left of the ball, and approaching it that way, executes the deftest of chips right into where the goalie's chest would've been if he hadn't dove down to his right, where he thought Magee would go.
What I love about the way he took it is that he seemed to beat the rhythm of the game. I wanted a dramatic pause. I wanted to consider the entire season in the moment, and I wanted him to look straight at the keeper with fire in his eyes, like Rivaldo in 2002. But then, that's what makes him such a good finisher, isn't it? It's the way he seems to catch defenders and goalies unaware. For some goals he's quicker than you think he can be, and for others he seems to wait an eternity before calmly putting it away. The PK on Saturday was a combination of both. It had the quickness to take a few people by surprise (and short circuit any nerves), and the calmness to chip a Pirlo-esque panenka in front of thousands of people, in the most important game of the season.
After the game, Magee admitted he had some nervousness: "Normally I get up there and don't think twice about missing, and this time the last one off the back of the post was on my mind, so I figured I couldn't hit it off the post if I shot it up the middle."
Even when admitting nerves, he sounds like the doubt in his mind didn't really make him fear not scoring, it just pushed him to score differently.
And so now the Fire go to New York with nerves and doubts, but like Magee, they'll have to use those doubts to push forward. They've learned from their mistakes against Montreal (and Columbus, and etc. etc.) but for three games in a row they've managed games and have a chance to finish the season the way Magee finished his PK: maybe a little afraid of the posts, maybe not exactly with the suave calmness of a secure playoff spot, but with a chance to kill it off, take the points, and head into the playoffs.
The Fire won back-to-back away games and scored six goals. They sit in a playoff position and control their own fate with two games remaining. Juan Luis Anangono is heating up. Mike Magee is so hot he's scoring goals by accident. Sean Johnson is playing like, and being recognized as, one of the four or five best American goalies. Jeff Larentowicz is owning midfields. Jalil Anibaba and Austin Berry are two of only three MLS players who've played every single minute so far this season and their defensive relationship is finally solidifying. There's real depth on the outside and through the middle (where captain Logan Pause and summer standout Daniel Paladini are working to get past Alex and Arevalo Rios).
That's the general view right now. The squad is playing up to their potential and the depth is supporting them. The competition for spots is pushing everyone harder, and the depth is allowing Frank Klopas to cover for injuries, international duty (Rios, Lindpere), or to go with the hotter player (Anangono over Chris Rolfe).
In other words, things are shaping up nicely. The general feeling is a good one, momentum is building, the Twitter trolls have returned to their caves, and it's hard to fend off enticing thoughts like, you know those lower-seeded teams that barrel into the playoffs and scare everyone because they're playing with momentum and confidence? What if the Fire can be that team?
All season long, the Fire's major problem was consistency. They were infuriatingly inconsistent from game to game and, indeed, from half to half. Maybe it was a focus thing, maybe it was a changing personnel thing, who knows. But now the Fire are managing games better. They're attacking straight from the beginning. They're pressuring the ball all over the field. They're getting crucial two-goal advantages and defending well enough to hold on to them.
We saw all that last week in D.C., where a super high defensive line pushed the Fire team way up the field to pressure United players into mistakes that led to chances and goals. We saw the same thing in Dallas on Saturday night. Alex, especially, was way up the field in the first half, never letting the Dallas players play the ball comfortable in their own half. (Magee, Anangono, Patrick Nyarko, and Dilly Duka deserve credit too.) How many shots did the Fire have at the top of the Dallas box in the first 30 minutes? It was harassment.
So just like in DC, a high defensive line and concentrated pressure led to a 2-0 first half lead. But just like in DC, we saw where it could be dangerous. We saw the team pay the price of so much early pressure, with Nyarko tweaking a hamstring and the rest of the team almost running out of gas late in the second half. We also saw how pushing too eagerly can be scary:
But I like this high pressure because it fits the moment, with the Fire desperately needing these results to make the playoffs. There are just two games left and the Fire have to prove their potentially newfound consistency beyond the past two away wins. They have to show the urgency and the commitment and the work rate into the next two games, too. Klopas's high risk and high pressure tactic fits.
It's a great moment: After all the work and all the struggle, suddenly the players' quality shines through. Suddenly everybody trusts each other. Goals and points happen. Anibaba scores a stunner. Other teams hit the posts.
I don't know about predicting anything against Toronto and New York. But if we keep seeing the Fire play as they have these past two games, they'll get to play a few more.


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CANTON The SUNY Canton mens hockey team will be under the direction of interim coach for the remainder of the season. Pat Martin is replacing Carl Michaelson, who was hired in September, and brings a long connection to the Roos program.
In his 13th year at the college, Martin is currently SUNY Cantons assistant athletic director and compliance coordinator. He previously served as the mens ice hockey coach for seven seasons.
During his tenure, SUNY Canton qualified for the National Junior College Athletic Association national championship tournament three times, including the championship game in 2001-02.
He was named coach of the year in Region 3 following his final season and has coached many All-Region and All-American players.
Before taking over the program, Martin was an assistant coach for three years and helped SUNY Canton win its 15th national championship in 1999-00.
SUNY Canton has an overall record of 5-11 this season.
Martin has also had several other impressive coaching stints, including the Can-Am Islanders, a Junior B team; the Cortland Bantams, who won the 1997 State and national championship; and the mens Adirondack team in the Empire State Games, where he has served as director of ice hockey operations.
Martin, who was named compliance coordinator in 2011 when the college transitioned to the NCAA, graduated from SUNY Cortland, and played hockey for the Red Dragons for three seasons.
Clarkson 70, Juniata 66
Clarkson shot 59 percent in the second half to come back from a 10-point halftime deficit and defeated Juniata in the first round of the St. John Fisher Holiday Tournament at Rochester.
Jerry Coleman scored a team-high 21 points, which included five 3-point field goals, and grabbed five rebounds for the Golden Knights (7-1), who will play Baruch in the championship game at 3 today.
John Coleman contributed 17 points, five rebounds and five steals, while Marques Charlton added 18 points.
Brian Scholly made seven 3-pointers, finishing with 27 points on 10-for-15 shooting, for Juniata (8-3).
Jonathan Hurtado led all scorers with 18 points as the Express beat the Kangaroos in the opening round of the SUNY Brockport Holiday Tournament in Brockport.
Ryan Hood added 11 points for Wells (5-5). which will play host SUNY Brockport in the championship.
Khalid Vaughn and Xzavier Fisher each added 16 points for SUNY Canton (2-7), which will face Pittsburgh-Bradford at noon.
Kaitlin Donahue scored 20 points and Kirsten Prue added 17 as the Polar Bears (4-4) beat the short-handed Golden Knights in the first round of the Bowdoin Holiday Invitational in Brunswick, Maine.
Ashley Loggins scored a team-high 19 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, and Colleen Daley added nine points and eight rebounds for Clarkson (2-5), which suited just six players, all freshmen.
Johnson Newspapers sportswriter Dave Shea contributed to this report.
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(WUSA) -- Olympic gold medal gymnast Dominique Dawes celebrates a birthday today! She turns 36.
DominiqueDawes.com shows when she was 6 years old, Dawes began gymnastics. At the age of 10, she started competing. By 1992, she made it to the Olympics. At Barcelona, she was one of the first African-American female gymnasts to compete and would become the first African-American gymnast with an Olympic gold.
According to her website, "Dawes has won more National Championship medals than any other athlete, male or female, since 1963, as well as numerous World Championship medals. One of Dawes' greatest feats came when she swept all four events and won the All Around title at the 1994 National Championships."
Many young women consider Dawes a hero, including double gold medalist Gabby Douglas, who became the first black woman to win an individual Olympic gymnastics medal.


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I'm back in Boston after spending three years in the Middle East, where I managed to grab a front-row seat for the 2011 Egyptian revolution, pick up some valuable conversational Arabic skills, and fall deeply in love with Middle Eastern cuisine. The news from that part of the world continues to keep me busy here at The World's headquarters. But I'm also looking toward Asia - especially China - a place that sort of led me to the journalism business in the first place.
I studied Chinese history at the University of Vermont. That led me to Mandarin language classes and UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, and then to KQED Radio in San Francisco. From there, I started freelancing for The World and joined the team here in Boston in late 2001.
I've been blessed to be able to cover a huge range of stories for The World. But some of the most memorable ones involved taking a trip on a Louisiana shrimping boat in the Gulf of Mexico, traveling with a Palestinian family from Gaza whose infant boy received life-saving heart surgery in Israel, and meeting North Korean refugees in the South Korean capital. I've reported on foreign policy in US presidential politics, the rise and fall of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and housing demolitions in Shanghai. I'd rather be playing drums for The Roots, but that position is filled quite competently for the time being. So, I'm sticking with radio.
In the way of some more personal detail, few people on earth enjoy food more than I do. I'm married to a brilliant musician and we have two highly-gifted children. I'm engaged with two long term projects for the foreseeable future: on the basketball court, I'm developing my jump shot; and on the drums, the Texas shuffle is a work in progress.