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Athlete Of the Week
Sophomore
Troy DeWitt is co-captain of the baseball team and both pitches
and plays the outfield. DeWitt hails from San Diego, Calif.
DeWitt started the Yeomens first game of the season against
Thiel College on Wednesday and pitched all seven innings of regulation.
He allowed four runs, only two of which were earned, on four hits.
He struck out 10 while walking only two.
DeWitt left the mound with the score tied, but as the DH scored
what turned out to be the winning run after he walked in the 10th.
DeWitt led the pitching staff in wins last year and was tied for
the team lead in RBI with 22 and in doubles with seven.
The baseball team split their doubleheader against Thiel. The season
continues with a doubleheader at Bluffton College on Saturday and
a doubleheader at home against LaRoche College on Wednesday.
Quote
of the Week
I
dont think Ive been on the field for that in my 70-something
games.
Bob
Montag
Senior co-captain of the baseball team
On
the Yeomens error-free game two against Thiel on Wednesday.
Marquee
Event
Baseball Doubleheader
Oberlin vs. LaRoche College
Wednesday, starting at 1 p.m.
Dill Field.
Barring
bad Ohio weather, Oberlin baseball will hold its home opener on
Wednesday with two games against LaRoche. The team will look to
improve its 1-1 record.
In
the Locker Room with. . .
In
the basement of Burton Hall, world-weary first-year lacrosse player
Mike McKenna details his perspectives on feminism, his special relationship
with insects and the intricacies of his personal onanistic rituals.
So
as you know, we have Theory of Knowledge class together.
What do you think about the course?
MM: Its fun.
Since
weve discussed some feminist philosophy in the class, Ill
ask this. Do you consider yourself a feminist?
MM: No. I have nothing against feminists, though sometimes really
radical feminists rub me the wrong way. I think some people are
blinded by gender issues. They get tunnel vision.
What
do you think of the feminists on Oberlin campus?
MM: I dont know a lot of them. Of the few people I have met,
they have been really cool.
Whats
your ultimate life purpose?
MM: Thats a hard one. What I think would make me happy would
be finding someone to have a family with, settling down in a nicer
climate than Ohio.
Not
really focusing on a career?
MM: Well, I sort of want to be a journalist, and I sort of want
to get a law degree.
Me,
too. Sort of
MM: But more than likely, Ill work in a job that I hate.
Wow.
Rather pessimistic, eh?
MM: Well, my dad is an entomologist for the military.
Really
? Bugs
?
MM: Yeah. I was born in the Philippines. My dad also worked in Germany,
and we were there when the Berlin wall came down.
But,
wait
I want to hear about entomology. Are there a lot of bugs
in your house?
MM: Well, my dad had a bunch of beetles in a box, once. And he did
his dissertation on mosquitos and mosquito-borne diseases. I suppose
you could consider him an expert in that field.
Whos
your greatest inspiration?
He
looks perplexed, so I say
Most
people say God.
MM: Mine would have to be an actor, though. I did a lot of theater
in high school, you know. So Kevin Spacey is my greatest inspiration.
Hes just an amazing actor.
Are
you planning on getting into theater again?
MM: Ive thought about it.
Not
that enthusiastic?
MM: Well, I was pessimistic about life before I came here. I had
a bad theater experience during my senior year of high school. But
I think its Irish melancholy.
So
if you could be an animal, what would you be?
MM: Maybe a cheetah. Except Im not that fast. I wish I was.
In athletics, it helps to be fast
No
bugs?
MM: Maybe a scarab beetle
No, wait. A mountain goat because
Im sure-footed, and Im tough.
Since
we are talking on a couch right outside the office of The Oberlin
Grape, an anonymous Grape staffer chimes in with his own question.
This staff member is the editor-in-chief, actually, and specifically
asks that his title be revealed while his name remains off the record
because he thinks its funnier that way. He asks
Which
hand do you masturbate with?
MM: My left hand. I think it has something to do with lacrosse,
because you have to be ambidextrous.
The
Grape staffer then exclaims
GEIC:
I think that the proliferation of the internet has caused the right-handed
males of our generation to learn to masturbate left-handed because
of how the mouse is situated.
I change
the subject.
Plan
on doing any lacrosse after college?
MM: Id like to coach.
All
I can think is, Im stunned. What a great way to end
an interview."
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