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CIARAN KOHLI—LYNCH

Which sports teams do your candidates support?

By Ciaran Kohli-Lynch
SPORTS EDITOR

Unless you have been living under a
very large rock for the past year, you will uni
doubtedly be aware that millions of Americans
will be heading to polling stations across the
nation to vote in the Presidential Election to,
day You may be welleversed in each candidate’s
opinions on a variety of matters, including for,
eign relations, healthcare reform and social
issues What you may not know, however, are
the sports teams your favored candidate backs?

Incumbent Barack Obama is fa,

mously a huge basketball fanI Having overseen
the development of a new basketball court on
the White House’s South Lawn in 2009, the
President reportedly competes against a nume
ber of exeprofessional and college level athletes
regularly

Owing to his vast amount of time
spent in Chicago, from his early days as a
community organizer in the Southside to his
time spent as United States Senator for Illinois,
Obama is a big fan of the Chicago Bulls Earlier
this year he promised the Chicago Tribune that
he would attend the finals if the Bulls were vice
torious in their playoff matches, and has since
stated that a seventh Bulls’ national champion,
ship “will happen" while he is in office

With regards to NFL, Obama has
noted a soft spot for Chicago’s Bears, but ad,
mitted to being a Pittsburgh Steelers fan as a
young boy growing up in Hawaii The Presi
dent has also regularly been spotted wearing
a Chicago White Sox hat, which he sported
while throwing the ceremonial first pitch at the
2009 AllEStar gamer

Republican challenger Mitt Romney
admits to always being a big fan of the New
England Patriots, which is unsurprising due
to his affiliation with Massachusetts, where he
was governor between 2003 and 2007I The Pats
chairman Robert Kraft, however, has contribe
uted to President Obama’s reelection campaign
and Romney would perhaps be better advised

to support the New York Jets Their owner,
Woody Johnson has help fund Romney’s came
paign and famously claimed he would prefer a
Romney victory to the Jets ending their seas on
with a winning record

In terms of baseball, Romney also
appears to favor the team from the Greater
Boston area, having previously shown support
for the Boston Red Soxt

When President Obama sarcasticale
ly “thanked" the Boston Red Sox during sum,
mer for the trade of infielder Kevin Youkilis to
the White Sox, the Romney Camp responded
negatively, lauding Obama for his “taunting"
and “mocking" of Red Sox fans

Women's volleyball season ends, team prepares for future

By Roma Mirutenko
STAFF WRITER

Last Thursday the Illinois Tech
Women’s Volleyball Team ended this season
with a loss to St Xavier University

Before that Thursdays game, the
Scarlet Hawks played a competitive battle with
Roosevelt University Tech won the first match

Premier League

By Nathan McMahon
STAFF WRITER

The Premier League was back in
action this weekend with many big games
Manchester United moved into the top spot
with a 21 win over Arsenal Goals by Robin
Van Persie and Patrice Evra sealed the three
points for the Reds even with a penalty miss
by Wayne Rooney Jack Wilshere received a red
card minutes after Evra’s goal to put Arsenal
down a man for the rest of a match

Santi Carzola scored deep into extra
time for Arsenal Arsenal now has 15 points on
the season while United now has moved into
the top spot with 24 points

League leader for most of the season,

2520, but lost the next three 19725, 34736,
2426 Tech fought hard but could not finish
Juniors Kate Kendall and Roma Mirutenko
along with Sophomore Taylor Duman all fine
ished with 12 kills while Senior Rebecca B07
grad finished with 4 aces

The match against St Xavier was
the last time the three Seniors, Rebecca B07
grad, Mariska Vandenbergh, and Samandy
Fulgence would play as Scarlet HawksI The
match was lost in 3 sets, 18725, 22725, 15725,

but the Hawks fought the whole time Duman
finished with 12 kills while Kendall finished
with 9

This season the Scarlet Hawks were
faced with many obstacles from injuries, to a
simple inability to finish

Overall the Scarlet Hawks finished
with a record of 1123 They are not discoure
aged, however, and are looking forward to the
spring season and their chance to prove that
they are not just a mediocre teamI

Looking at the team stats for the
season it was evident to see that there were
many team standoutsi

Kendall finished the season with 371
kills while Duman finished with 305 Bograd
finished with a total of 808 assists bringing
her career total to 3664 assistsI Junior Brittany
Mead finished with 541 digs while Sophomore
Shea Manley finished with 36 acesI

Review: Liverpool trails Newcastle by 6 points

Chelsea, could only manage a draw against a
resilient Swansea City side in a 171 result
Chelsea’s goal came from Victor Moses while
Pablo scored for Swansea Swansea now has 12
points, but the big story is Chelsea now sit sec,
end with 23 points

The other frontrunner Manchester
City was also unable to keep pace with United
when they drew 070 with a strong West Ham
United sideI City now has 22 points so far
while West Ham continues to impress with 15
points

Fulham managed to pick up a point
off a last minute goal by Steve Sidwell in a 2,2
draw with Evertoni The other Fulham goal
came from a Tim Howard own goal just min,
utes into the gamer Everton looked the strone

ger side with a pair of goals by Marouane Fele
laini Everton now has 17 points and a position
in the top four of the table while Fulham sits
just below them with 15 points

Norwich City topped Stoke City 170
off a goal by Bradley Johnson. Norwich has 10
points just above Stoke who has 9 points this
season

Aston Villa got three points in their
10 win over Sunderland Aston Villa’s goal
came from Gabriel Agbonlahor Villa now has
9 points to draw even with Sunderland on the
table that also has 9 points

Wigan Athletic had an especially
strong performance this weekend in their 10
win over Tottenhami Wigan’s goal came from
Ben Watson to give them three points and

bring them to 11 points on the season while
Spurs has 17 points Queens Park Rangers and
Reading drew 171 in a battle to get out of the
bottom threeI

Reading got their goal from Kaspars
Gorkss while QPR got a goal Djibirl Cisse for
the equalizing goal Reading now has 5 points
with QPR just behind them with 4 points while
both sides continue to struggle in the bottom
threeI

Liverpool gained a massive point
this weekend in a 171 draw with NewcastleI The
Magpies got their goal from Yohan Cabaye, but
Luis Suarez brought it even for Liverpool

Liverpool now has 11 points on the
season while Newcastle has 17 now

Men's soccer loses final match of season

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By Liam Barrett
STAFF WRITER

IIT traveled to Saint Xavier in their
much anticipated playoff game against their
conference rivals The scarlet hawks started
strongly and put high pressure on the home
sides’ back line, which led to them creating a
number of good chances without being able
to break the deadlock

Against the run of play, Saint Xavie
er took the lead after IIT failed to deal with
a deep cross to their back post, leaving the

Xavier forward free to put the ball away unope
posedt Things quickly went from bad to worse
just 5 minutes later when a long throw was
once again not dealt with and the home side
was left with an easy finish to double their ad,
vantage

Shortly after the half hour mark,
IIT managed to pull a mucheneeded goal
back when senior forward Liam Barrett
curled home a free kick for his 17th goal of
the season, which gave the hawks a noticeable
lift The visitors dominated the remainder of
the half, however, the elusive equalizing goal

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never materialized and IIT went into half
time 271 down

The second half started much like
the first, it finished with IIT pushing forward
and creating a number of good chancesI On
the hour mark, senior Ciaran KohlieLynch
broke free from the Saint Xavier back four
and let loose with a fearsome strike that
crashed against the post and unfortunately
failed to land to any of the IIT players follow,
ing in on the shot

Any hopes of getting back into the
game were put to bed when Saint Xavier were

Photos by Liam Barrett

 

gifted a goal from close range before Kohlie
Lynch was sent off, leaving the hawks down
to ten men. As the clock ran down, the home
side was able to capitalize on their oneeman
advantage and scored another goal from a set
piece, leaving the hawks 471 down and head,
ing for defeat

The final score line of 471 most
definitely flattered the home side, although
the result was probably a fair one on a night
where IIT was unable to defend their goal
with the resilience and focus shown by their
opposition