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The softball
team
celebrates at
home plate
during the
first inning
Wednesday.
A&M softball throttles Lamar
behind eight-run first inning
By Milkyas Gashaw
The Texas A&M softball team defeated
^ the Lamar Cardinals 13-0 in five innings
Wednesday at the Aggie Softball Complex.
The No. 2 Aggies (33-12, 8-7 SEC)
pounced on the Cardinals from the get-go.
Head Coach Jo Evans said she was pleased
with the all-around execution.
“I thought we did a good job taking advan
tage of their mistakes and getting up there and
stroking the ball,” Evans said. “We were tak
ing our walks early and squaring the ball up.”
Evans said the team got a big night from
the offense.
“We don’t get those games very often
where you can relax and sit back in the dug-
out,” Evans said. “Usually it’s a heated batde
but I loved the way I saw the kids came out
hitting. I thought April Ryan was terrific to
night. She went out there and went with the
pitch. The first hit she gets in the third inning,
she hits it hard and then the next at-bat she
goes the other way and hits a grand slam. It’s
just nice to see her out there feeling comfort
able.”
The first two Aggie runs came on an odd
sequence in the first inning. Freshman Ashley
Walters came up to the plate with the bases
loaded and hit a grounder to shortstop. The
Lamar shortstop threw home to get a force-
out, but the catcher lifted her foot off the plate
and the umpire called the Aggie safe at home.
The Lamar players thought the inning was
over with their double play so another Aggie
rounded third and scored the second run of
the game.
After two more ru ns came in the first to
increase the Aggie lead to 4-0, sophomore
April Ryan stepped up to the plate with the
bases loaded against starting pitcher Laura Na
poli and belted a grand slam to complete the
eight-run first inning. Ryan spoke about her
change to leading off the Aggie lineup.
“I just pretend that it’s the middle of the
game and I’m leading off the next inning,”
Ryan said.
Homers from Celena Massey and Cali Lan-
phear along with a three-RBI day from Kayla
Ober helped seal the Aggie victory.
The Aggies take their show on the road
when they face the No. 1 LSU Tigers for a
three-game series beginning Saturday.
THE MUGDOWN
CONTINUED
“I know some people will
want to be able to claim their
work and claim specific ar
ticles and stunts, and others
may not want their name
associated with specific ar
ticles,” Polk said. “I’m very
proud of my work, I think it
was all done in good taste, but
I’ll probably wait for every
thing to die down.”
By the founders’ account,
anonymity allows The Mug-
down the ability to direct the
reader’s attention away from
the writer and toward the ar
ticle’s message.
“It’s not about us trying to
get the attention or glory, but
it’s more about us trying to
create something of value,”
said William French, one of
the founders and manage
ment senior.
Anonymity also serves a
more practical purpose. Like
other writers at The Mug-
down, Polk said she has writ
ten about organizations she
is in and about people she
knows. She said she draws
the line at jokes she would
not say in front of the people
she writes about, but the fact
remains that she would be
approached by subjects of ar
ticles if they knew she wrote
them.
“We’ve actually had writ
ers whose names have leaked
further than they meant them
to and were contacted by the
subject of their own articles,”
Polk said. “It was just a really
awkward situation.”
The Mugdown founders
said other awkward situations
could arise without the pro
tection of anonymity.
“If you happen to write a
friend’s name in there, or a
friend might come up to you
and say, ‘Hey could you write
me into the next article?’ And
when you are anonymous,
they won’t keep asking you
to put their name into the
next article,” French said. “It
gives you more freedom for
that.”
Founder and business hon
ors senior Lucas Williamson
said the reveal allowed him to
to have a fuller conversation
about The Mugdown.
“I am a horrible secret
keeper, and if I haven’t spoiled
it, friends and some teachers
have, so today was rather an-
ticlimactic,” Williamson said.
“On the whole, the response
is almost always positive. I’ve
had people be like, ‘Oh my
gosh it’s like meeting a cam
pus celebrity,’ but really I just
love the opportunity to talk
aranee*
about this organization.”
The founders said by na
ture satire can be offensive,
but Benjamin Gothman,
editor-in-chief and biology
senior, said four editors re
view an article before it is
published under The Mug-
down’s name.
Gothman also said some
subjects are out of bounds
for The Mugdown, namely
Muster, Silver Taps and the
Bonfire Memorial, among
other topics.
“We all came together to
The Mugdown out of a place
of love for Texas A&M,”
Gothman said. “We’re all
Aggies and we all want to
be the first to laugh at our
selves in that sense. And so
we definitely knew going
into it there were going to
be certain topics that were
[not appropriate] for parody
because they were not going
to promote discussion or do
anything to better the com
munity of Texas A&M.”
As the founders prepare to
graduate and go their separate
ways, Polk said there is no
way to ensure the next wave
of editors will adhere to the
founders’ guidelines, but she
believes The Mugdown is in
good hands.
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