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Campus Review
January 28, 2013
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Clayton State Captures Three Wins,
School Record, NCAA Provisional
Mark at Winston-Salem Meet
by Gid Rowell, Athletic Department
The Clayton State women’s and men’s
track and field teams returned to action on
Sunday, Jan. 20, in the Winston-Salem
State Open and posted three event wins, a
school record and a NCAA Division II
Indoor Championships provisional mark
at the meet in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Freshman Jessica Matthews led the squad
improving her school record in the triple
jump by three inches and her standing on
the NCAA Division II provisional list.
Her jump of 38-feet 7-1/2 inches won the
meet, her first win in a collegiate compe-
tition.
Clayton State’s distance medley relay
team of senior Paige Galvin, junior Gisele
Javois, junior Sam Walling and sopho-
more Racquel Valadez won with a time of
13:00.14, which ranks 10th on the NCAA
Division II performance list this season.
Galvin also came back and placed third in
the 3,000m run with a time of 10:37.92,
just .12 seconds off her school record in
the event.
Senior Monique Belmudes and freshman
Taylor Galvin placed second and fourth,
respectively in the mile with times of
5:34.08 and 5:40.21. Valadez finished
fifth in the 3,000m with a time of
10:54.49.
On the men’s side, senior Ayrton Azcue
had the best effort. He led the distance
medley relay team to a third place finish
by setting a blistering pace of 3:06 for the
1200m leg and came back later in the
meet to win the mile run with a time of
4:17.48 and just missed the NCAA provi-
sional time for the event by a quarter of a
second.
Along with Azcue, senior Shelby Russell,
junior Charles Anderson and freshman
Job Kemboi ran on the relay team that fin-
ished with an overall time of 10:37.93,
which is the 10th fastest in NCAA
Division II so far this year.
Clayton State’s 4x400m relay team of
sophomore Dinero Nicholas, Russell,
Anderson and junior Wilson Louima
placed second with a time of 3:31.84.
Anderson placed fifth in the 800m run
with a time of 2:00.68.
“Kayla is one of best players in the coun-
try. It is a shame that someone got hurt in
a game like that.”
With the win, the Lakers improved to 14-
0 overall and 7-0 in the conference.
Clayton State senior sensation Griggs
once again led the attack, scoring 20
points to go along with nine boards. She
also had five assists and three steals in the
game. Behind Griggs’ 20 points, Pryce
and Jackson each had nine points. Jackson
also finished with six rebounds, three
blocks and three steals. Center Shannon
Smith finished with seven rebounds.
For USC Aiken, guard Daniela Tarailo
finished with 12 points, followed by
Harris with 11 points. Forward Porsha
Martin chipped in 10 points and had a
game high 15 rebounds.
Trivia Time
“Hang Jeff
Davis from a
Sour Apple
Tree”
by John Shiffert, University Relations
While Andy Jackson, had he lived
until the outbreak of the Civil War,
might have wanted to turn that little
ditty (sung to the tune of “John
Brown’s Song”) into reality, in real-
ity it was another southern leader
that Old Hickory wished he’d hung
while he was president.
While that may seem a little
extreme, Jackson’s own vice presi-
dent, John C. Calhoun, did commit
treason while he was vice president,
in a little matter called the
Nullification Crisis. Jackson, a man
of few inhibitions, indeed regretted
late in his life that he hadn’t had
Calhoun hung. The correct respon-
dents to this death bed wish of Old
Hickory were; Lou Brackett, Rob
Taylor (who still insists that
Zachary Taylor was his great uncle),
Jill
Ellington,
Elizabeth
Zaharopoulos, Brett Reichert,
David Ludley and Scott McElroy.
Such an action by Jackson wouldn’t
have prevented the Civil War, nor
would it have prevented the embar-
rassing circumstances when Jeff
Davis wasn’t hung, but was cap-
tured by Union troops while he was
hiding out in Georgia’s Irwin
County. What was so embarrassing
about Davis’ capture, other than the
fact that, as he was being hauled off
to prison, he was serenaded with
“hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple
tree?”
In the next issue of Campus
Review, we’ll review the 2012 sea-
son of Trivia Time and name the
winner of the 2012 Tom Eddins
Virtual Trivia Trophy.
Clayton State vs. Aiken, cont’d. from p. 15