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Campus Review
January 10, 2012
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Students Take Part in Alternative
Winter Break Volunteer Programs in
Cumberland Island and New Orleans
The Clayton State University Office of
Campus Life’s annual Alternative Winter
Break Programs were held in two location
last month, on Cumberland Island off the
Georgia Coast, and in New Orleans.
The Cumberland Island program, spon-
sored by Campus Life and the Clayton
State Department of Recreation and
Wellness, ran from Dec. 11 to Dec. 14.
Volunteers assisted in various aspects of
park operations such as the annual horse
count inventories, worked on historic
structures and trail restoration and mainte-
nance. Students on this trip also took an
active role in the Leave No Trace tech-
niques of camping that promotes ways to
reduce the impacts on nature when partic-
ipating in all outdoor activities. Nine
Clayton State students, along with
Recreation and Wellness staff member
Nicholas Kilburg, participated in this
project.
Campus Life’s Alternative Winter Break
Volunteer Program in New Orleans ran
from Dec. 11 to Dec. 17, and was part of
the United Saints Recovery Project.
Founded in 2007 as an outreach program
of the First Street United Methodist
Church to help families with restoration
after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina,
United Saints focuses on revitalizing eco-
nomically distressed neighborhoods
afflicted by poverty and affected by the
disaster. The program assists the elderly,
handicapped, and otherwise disadvan-
taged residents to return to their homes.
Clayton State students performed skilled
and unskilled tasks such as painting,
flooring, sheet rocking, plumbing, carpen-
try, landscaping, etc. Thirteen Clayton
State students, along with staff members
LaShanda Hardin and Tony Berry, partic-
ipated in this project.
Clayton State Men Persevere,
Outlast Francis Marion in OT
by Lee Wright, Sports Information
Needing a victory in the worse way possi-
ble, the Clayton State Laker men’s basket-
ball team showed both courage and perse-
verance on Saturday as the Lakers rallied
behind 42 points from Teondre Williams
and Anthony Salter for a 99-94 Peach Belt
Conference victory at Francis Marion.
The victory ends a two-game losing skid
for Clayton State, which improves to 9-4
overall and 2-3 in the Peach Belt. Francis
Marion, meanwhile, falls to 6-6 overall
and 2-3 in the Peach Belt. Clayton State
has now won five straight against Francis
Marion and seven of its last eight.
“Unbelievable game!” says Clayton State
head coach Gordon Gibbons. “This has
been a long trip with a tough defeat the
other night (78-73 at UNC Pembroke).
This team had to have this game, and that
is why it was so big. Our guys were not
going to lose today, no matter what the sit-
uation.”
Clayton State used a 19-2 run in the first
half to take a 39-29 lead at halftime. But
Francis Marion came out guns-a-blazing
in the second half, shooting a sizzling 71
percent from the field and 60 percent from
3-point range. Still, the Lakers led by as
many as 11 points early in the second half
as Bradley Tumer’s driving lay-up gave
Clayton State a 55-44 lead at the 15:20
mark.
Francis Marion three times trimmed the
Clayton State lead to three points before
the Patriots went on a 13-0 run to lead by
six. Marcus Wright started the rally with a
3-point play, followed by a long 3-point
basket by Evrik Gary. After the Patriots
took the lead on four free throws, Wright
sank a 3-point basket to give Francis
Marion a 76-70 with 4:21 remaining.
Methodically, Clayton State battled back.
A 3-point play by Williams cut the Patriot
lead to two points. Then after two missed
free throws by Francis Marion’s Liki
Turner, Williams scored again on a driv-
ing basket and was fouled with 1:05
remaining. His second 3-point play cut the
Francis Marion lead to 82-81.
Williams came up with two big steals in
the final minute of regulation. The first set
up the game-tying free throw by Salter
with 41 seconds remaining. Clayton State
had a final shot at winning in regulation,
but Tumer’s 15-foot jumper was short in
the waning seconds.
The two teams traded leads early in the
overtime period with free throws before
Clayton State took a two-point lead on
two Williams free throws with 2:14
remaining. After Francis Marion regained
the lead on a 3-point basket in the corner
by Zamarius McLendon, Williams
answered again. The senior scored on a
driving lay-up and was fouled to convert
his third 3-point play of the game.
That gave Clayton State a 91-89 lead with
1:15 remaining. The Lakers increased the
lead to three points when Salter scored in
transition off a missed Francis Marion
free throw.
After Francis Marion trimmed the deficit
to one point on a driving lay-up by Turner
with 48 seconds remaining, Clayton
State’s Andrew Bachanov answered with
a turnaround baseline jumper with 19 sec-
Overtime, cont’d., p. 13