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TechNews | TuesdayApril3,2012

 

Club Basketball earns first home win, rests for next year

By Jennifer Agosto
STAFF WRITER

A long, hard fought season finally
comes to an end on a high note. The Hawks
finish the 2012 season with a 3-11 record,
two of those wins coming from their last two
games. The first game, held Friday, March 23
was won by a score of 74 to 50 against Devry
University. Richard Wade was the team’s lead-
ing scorer in this win with a high of 20 points.
On March 30 the Hawks faced Devry once
more and won with a score of 81 to 64. Richard

 

Wade was once again the team’s leading scorer
with a high of 25 points.

The 2012 season had a mix of highs
and lows for the Hawks. As the first Ofl'ICial sea-
son for club basketball, there was much to take
away and learn. Captain Trevor Townsend,
who is also the teams overall leading scorer
with an average of 16 points per game, has said
before that the lack of chemistry, dedication,
and commitment has affected their ability to
win.

As this season comes to an end, the
desire to work on the shortfalls as a team has

grown and has positively affected them, as can
be seen in the end of season wins. Townsend
commented that he believes “this team has the
potential talent to be a legitimate team, and we
had to face the perils of being a new team and
trying to figure everything out, and I believe
next year will be a lot better.”

Fans have come out to support the
Hawks time in and time out. One fan, Izzy
Radzik, gives a perspective to the investment
IIT students are making in the club team. In
his words, “The game (Friday) went well, how-
ever the referees called too many fouls that

weren’t in fact fouls and there were fouls that
they blatantly missed. Rich (Wade) had a crazy,
high scoring game putting up 25 as the teams
point guard. I do believe they could have al-
most hit triple digits had they made their free
throws.”

Now that the season is over, the re-
turning team members will have time to work
on the team’s shortfalls with hopes to improve
for next season. After the last two wins, there
is much hope for the success of the team, and
come next season, there is much to look for-
ward to.

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By Melanie Koto
SPORTS EDITOR

Despite the streak of losses over
the past few games, the Scarlet Hawks
Baseball Team walked away from their
first game against St. Francis with a win.

The Hawks started the Wednesday
game off with a 2-1 lead, and held on to win
the game 6-3. Sophomore Jordan Obata start-
ed the game off with a home run to right field,
followed up by senior Brian Glennon with a
single and an advancement to second on an
error. Senior Reid Matsumoto singled and
brought Glennon home for the second run of
the inning for the Hawks. St. Francis answered
the Hawks with one run, but the Hawks kept
their two run lead by scoring another run in
the second. Senior Nick Wise doubled and ad-

 

vanced to third on an out by Freshman Corey
Gokan, and then scored on an out by Fresh-
man Ryan Fitzpatrick. St. Francis scored again
in the 3rd, but the Hawks answered in the 4th
with two more runs of their own. Wise was
hit by the pitch and stole second with Gokan
at bat. Fitzpatrick singled and brought Wise
in for the first run, stealing second himself.
Obata singled, bringing Fitzpatrick home for
the second run. The Hawks scored again in the
6th in response to a run by St. Francis, when
Fitzpatrick scored on an RBI by Glennon.

The Hawks played a three game se-
ries against Cardinal Stritch, losing all three
games despite some decent offensive and de-
fensive plays, including a homer by Freshman
Michael Malfeo, bringing in three runs for the
Hawks in the first inning of their two games on
Saturday The Hawks next home game will be
Saturday, April 7 at noon with a double head-
er against Trinity International University

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