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BASEBALL
Aggies hang on in extra-inning thriller
Kathryn Perez — THE BATTALION
Matt Kent pitched 5 1/3 perfect innings in relief Tuesday.
No. 3 A&M tops Texas State in
an up-and-down midweek game
By Andre Perrard
In a back-and-forth rollercoaster
ride, Tuesday night presented Aggie
fans with another example of Olsen Mag
ic. Thanks to a walk-off hit from Logan
Nottebrok, A&M won 8-7 over Texas
State in 11 innings.
“A lot of heroes tonight,” said A&M
head coach Rob Childress. “Everyone
got to play. Defensively we played really
good, made some big plays, and with the
exception of a few innings we pitched a
pretty good night too.”
The Bobcats (18-25-1) picked on
Turner Larkins from the start, loading the
bases and capitalizing on the opportunity.
They drove in three runs in the top of the
first to take a 3-0 lead over A&M early.
A&M had a response. After scoring a
run in the first inning, A&M received two
RBIs in the third inning from Ryne Birk
and Hunter Melton to tie the game at 3-3
after three innings of play.
Aggie starting pitcher Turner Larkins
got in a jam early, and after surrendering
three runs he was taken out of the ball
game. In relief, Matt Kent was lights out
for A&M. In his 5 1/3 innings of relief
duty, he pitched scoreless, hitless base
ball. Kent set down all batters he faced,
16 straight, with seven strikeouts to keep
the Bobcat lineup at bay.
“I came in in the first just looking to
get us a stop and allow our offense to get
us back in the game,” said Kent.
The sixth inning was big for No. 3
A&M (38-7). Blake Allemand gave the
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and brush her fur. I don’t have any 8
a.m. classes so she usually sleeps after her
morning routine.”
Daylon Koster, agricultural econom
ics senior and Reveille’s handler from
2012-2013, said Reveille is mostly calm
— with some humorous exceptions.
“I was in my animal science class with
Rev in the front row and the professor
was talking about and displaying cows in
his lecture,” Koster said. “Being a natu
ral herding dog. Reveille got extremely
curious at the sight of these cows and
barked. All 300 students got out class
early that day.”
Reveille has not only met professors
and students, but has also spent time with
high-profile campus and national figures.
“[Rev] has gotten to fly with Coach
Sumlin in private and in her own seat,”
Koster said.
Business administration freshman
David Sharp is Reveille’s “third leash,”
meaning if Moss or her “second leash”
cannot take her to the event, he is in
charge of her. Sharp describes Reveille
as fluffy, sassy and playful.
“She loves to chase squirrels,” Sharp
said. “One time I was with her and as
she was posing for a photo, she saw a
squirrel about 50 feet from her and im
mediately froze. She began creeping up
to the squirrel and as soon as it locked
eyes with her, she darted after the squir
rel, chased it up a tree and was barking
throughout.”
Despite the many everyday surprises
not typical to any other dog. Reveille
Aggies their first lead with a RBI single,
then Nick Banks beat out an infield single
on an error that gave him one RBI, but
scored two runs. Another RBI single, this
time from Mitchell Nau, gave the Aggies
a 7-3 lead after six innings.
Texas State responded with a four-run
inning of its own. After Kent exited the
game, the Bobcats loaded the bases, and
RBI after RBI helped Texas State tie the
game 7-7 after seven frames. A&M had to
utilize four pitchers in the inning before
it was over.
The Aggies had their chances late in
the game, but could not capitalize. The
game went to extra innings in a 7-7 tie.
A&M waited patiently, and in the 11th
has stuck to her routine and by her han
dlers’ sides.
“She knows the job better than I do,”
Moss said. “Since I am new, she walks
me through what I’m supposed to be
doing and where I’m going. She knows
where she’s supposed to go. She even
has a designated poop spot right behind
the Quad.”
Sharp said sometimes she outright re
fuses to carry on with her responsibili-
inning it got its chance at the win. The
Aggies loaded the bases, and with two
outs, Logan Nottebrok hit the walk-off
single to win the game. Nottebrok almost
had the walk off home run in the ninth
inning, but his two big hits went just foul.
The third time was the charm for Not
tebrok.
“In the at-bat, I just kept telling myself
to have a good at-bat,” said Nottebrok
about his winning hit.
With the win, A&M remains unbeaten
in mid-week contests this season. The
Aggies will hit the road this weekend as
they travel to Knoxville to take on Ten
nessee.
ties.
“Whenever I’m walking
her off the Quad, she knows
that once she passes the arches
she’s heading somewhere,”
Sharp said. “Sometime, she
anchors herself to the ground
and tugs on her leash, refusing
to budge.”
Koster said Reveille re
members her handlers and
treats them with the same af
fection.
“Even though it’s been two
years since I was her handler,
[Rev] is still in the dorms and
I get to, v babysit her all the
time,” Koster said. “She has
a great memory. Every time
she sees her breeders, she runs
up to them", tackles them and
licks them.”
Moss said next year he
will face the responsibility of
learning how to train a brand
new Reveille IX.
“[Reveille VIII] has things
that bother her and they have
been known for so many
years,” Moss said. “With the
new Rev, I’ll be figuring it all out from
trial and error. I’ll be teaching her all the
ropes, especially how to compose herself
around people and at events.”
Koster said Reveille VIII is an amaz
ing dog and served her role well.
“I’m excited for her,” Koster said.
“She had a great run. I also can’t wait to
meet the new Reveille IX.”
The celebration will be from 4-6 p.m.
at the Clayton Williams Alumni Center.
Reveille VIII walks with cadets before an
home football game.
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it, it will absorb the energy, and then
give off the energy as heat,” Apple-
gate said. “That heat warms up the
local tissue and that causes a pressure
wave, which is an acoustic wave. If
you do this and listen with an ultra- -
sound transducer, it will show up as
sound and this is used to identify the
things absorbing that light.”
With high-powered microscopes,
tiny vessels on the order of several
microns can be seen. With electron
microscopes, individual atoms can
be seen, but some molecules on the
subcellular level are still not easily
imaged.
“We can specifically target very
small molecules that absorb light,
and see them very well, with nothing
else,” said Scott Mattison, biomedi
cal engineering doctoral student and
one of the students in Applegate’s
lab.
The A&M team is on the fore
front of this technique, and is getting
better readings than were previously
possible through a process called
transient imaging. They are now
in the final stages of fine-tuning the
process.
“Instead of looking at straight
light absorption, we are looking at
transient absorption or absorption
over time,” Applegate said. “This
allows us to get a resolution that is
10 times better than standard tech
niques.”
Mattison, who plans and runs ex
periments and oversees equipment
maintenance, said the difference this
makes in practice is tremendous.
“An analogy could be that we are
going from the old SD television to
a high-definition television,” Mat
tison said.
The improved photoacoustic im
aging has two main research applica
tions. The first, which is researched
in Applegate’s lab, is close monitor
ing of the activity of the mitochon
dria, the powerhouse of the cell.
“We are trying to directly image
cytochromes, which are subcellular
particles in the mitochondria that are
used in metabolism,” Applegate said.
If this is accomplished, Mattison
said it will have huge implications in
pharmaceutical research.
“If everything works how we
want it to, we can watch the energy
levels of cells change,” Mattison said.
The technique can be used to
test how certain drugs affect cells,
including the cancer cell. If the en
ergy output of the cancerous cell is
known, the efficacy of a cancer treat
ment can be better understood and
improved.
The second application is in the
monitoring of blood flow.
The photoacoustic imaging tech
nique is limited by the fact that it can
only see light-absorbing particles.
Mattison said, fortunately, hemo
globin in the blood is an excellent
absorber of light.
Right now, Mattison said research
throughout the physics and medical
communities uses rats to image dif
ferent biological processes.
“With photoacoustic imaging,
you can look through the rat’s skull
and look at its brain activity,” Matti
son said. “You can watch where the
brain reacts when the rat is subjected
to various stimuh.”
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was shocking.
“At first everyone was confused as to what
was going on,” Banks said. “The ground shook
vigorously and we all just looked at each other
with, ‘What was that?’ faces. After realizing it
was an earthquake, we all ran for safety and sec
onds later snow filled the entire town of Gorak
Shep, completely wiping out the phone lines and
covering hikers.”
Their rescue was difficult, Banks said, because
people with immediate needs were helped first.
“Pheriche was completely destroyed by the
time we managed to get down,” Banks said.
“Evacuations were occurring left and right to
people of more need, so we were told to go
to [Namche Bazaar], which is about a two-day
hike.”
By order of the Nepal Army, however, all
lodges were closed along the way to Namche
Bazaar due to potential danger to aftershocks,
Banks said.
“So instead of stopping after about six hours
of hiking we ended up hiking nearly 10 hours
with Olivia being sick,” Banks said. “But we
finally found a lodge that had set up a huge tarp
outside of their lodge and let us sleep there.”
The next morning, they hiked the rest of the
way to Namche Bazaar, Banks said. They went
to the medical clinic in the village and arranged
a medical evacuation for Lewis.
“The evac first took us to Lukla where we
waited for hours for our second helicopter,”
Banks said. “While waiting we sat and watched
as they brought body after body down via heli
copter. It was devastating.”
Banks said she feels fortunate to have survived.
“Hearing other peoples stories here just
break my heart,” Banks said. “I think I was
lucky to have been in the mountains when the
earthquake hit because there was not nearly as
much weak infrastructure to crash down —just
the danger of rockslides and avalanches.”
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